Rynata followed Patrick's movement with her eyes as he passed them by to go talk to a group of women not too far off. It was strange that he elected not to join them, but taking into account his brief comment, perhaps there was something important that had caught his eye. Giving Amaris a look as if to confirm that she knew the man, Rynata turned back to the matter at hand. If Amaris trusted him, then for the moment, that was good enough for her. After all, it seemed they had new things to worry about.
Lock's dramatic slide into the scene caused the Biqaj to tense up unnecessarily, ready to defend Aku'ana if need be. Yet it seemed that the two were quite familiar with each other. So much so that moments later, Aku'ana was being carried off, bridal style. Blinking a little at their interaction, Rynata trotted after them nonetheless, not ready to leave the troubled woman. However, to say that the two performers were drawing eyes was an understatement. Rynata had to weave past the giggling flock in front of the tavern to make her way inside.
Once settled at the table, she let Lock shuffle through the letters and calmly watched Amaris go about treating Aku'ana. The symbols were a pretty good indicator that the message came from someone withing the troupe. Not the only possibility, but a reasonable assumption. Yet there was so little to go on that frankly, everything was still on the table. They needed to get to the bottom of this soon, because as Amaris pointed out, the dancer looked like she was fraying at the edges. Too much longer of this and the stress might start doing more concrete damage to her health.
Accepting the papers back from Lock, Rynata flipped through them more carefully, frowning in concentration. "Ms. Aku'ana, who is this Rose? Someone within the troupe? Also, it might help if you could tell us when exactly you started receiving these. The method in which they were delivered, as well, yes? Depending on your answers, we can narrow down who we have to worry about." Gears turning in her head, Rynata still took a breath to phrase things as delicately as possible. "And it almost sounds," she said raising the collection of letters, "as though you are being blackmailed. There's some sensitive information mentioned in here. The kind of intelligence someone would flaunt if they wanted to scare another into doing what they were told. Have you never received any demands or conditions from the sender? You said earlier that you could think of a lot of reasons as to why someone would do this, but if it's not just cruelty, what would anyone have to gain from threatening you?"
Lock's dramatic slide into the scene caused the Biqaj to tense up unnecessarily, ready to defend Aku'ana if need be. Yet it seemed that the two were quite familiar with each other. So much so that moments later, Aku'ana was being carried off, bridal style. Blinking a little at their interaction, Rynata trotted after them nonetheless, not ready to leave the troubled woman. However, to say that the two performers were drawing eyes was an understatement. Rynata had to weave past the giggling flock in front of the tavern to make her way inside.
Once settled at the table, she let Lock shuffle through the letters and calmly watched Amaris go about treating Aku'ana. The symbols were a pretty good indicator that the message came from someone withing the troupe. Not the only possibility, but a reasonable assumption. Yet there was so little to go on that frankly, everything was still on the table. They needed to get to the bottom of this soon, because as Amaris pointed out, the dancer looked like she was fraying at the edges. Too much longer of this and the stress might start doing more concrete damage to her health.
Accepting the papers back from Lock, Rynata flipped through them more carefully, frowning in concentration. "Ms. Aku'ana, who is this Rose? Someone within the troupe? Also, it might help if you could tell us when exactly you started receiving these. The method in which they were delivered, as well, yes? Depending on your answers, we can narrow down who we have to worry about." Gears turning in her head, Rynata still took a breath to phrase things as delicately as possible. "And it almost sounds," she said raising the collection of letters, "as though you are being blackmailed. There's some sensitive information mentioned in here. The kind of intelligence someone would flaunt if they wanted to scare another into doing what they were told. Have you never received any demands or conditions from the sender? You said earlier that you could think of a lot of reasons as to why someone would do this, but if it's not just cruelty, what would anyone have to gain from threatening you?"
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I got 12 as well!
