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[sword_and_quill]

[ The device flicks on to show Fakir, with his back facing the screen and sitting in a chair out front of a fireplace with a healthy flock of flames glowing within.

He appears to be feeding something into the fire - something that looks like a piece of paper - and it crinkles and goes up in flames as soon as he drops it in.

Then he reaches down to a

Comments

[li_xiao_lang]

That happens a lot, I've noticed.

[sword_and_quill]

Indeed. Not that I expect anything in this place to make sense by now.

[li_xiao_lang]

I keep thinking there's a pattern we're missing. Something you can't see when you're in the City, maybe.

[sword_and_quill]

...It's possible.

Though every time I think there's a traceable pattern to what goes on here, they seem to throw a wild card in and blow that theory out of the water.

[stargathering]

What is all that?

[sword_and_quill]

Nothing important.

[stargathering]

For something that's not important, you're being meticulous with getting rid of it...

[sword_and_quill]

It's a stack of curse-related nonsense. I have no desire to keep it.