Alone

[Rezantis]

Nathan pauses.

"That's . . . a more than valid point. Do you know who ordered the guards to Dorian's room?"

[Brian]

Searching through the room you find Durant's clothes, a handful of coins, a flute, some replacement strings, and a shined brass cloak-pin.

There is no sign of the book.

[Bjorn]

Squatting on his haunches, Bjorn looks pensively about the room, tossing a copper coin in his hand.  "Well.  At the very least, there's nothing incriminating to be found here."

He tilts his head in though, and then looks over at Nathan.  "I don't think we have to worry about the journal coming out right away," he says, "since it doesn't fit with the whole Verrik story.  But if we do manage to show Durant isn't Verrik, I'll bet good money that someone finds it not long after." His brow furrows.  "Why so much effort on keeping Paul out of action?" he mutters.

[Rezantis]

"Possibly. I reckon we need to go and interrogate some servants. Someone may have seen someone come in here . . . although, of course, bloody unlikely. Why there were no guards is something we're also going to have to ask."

Rez sighs.

"So, what do we do about Durant?"

[Bjorn]

Dropping the coin back into the footlocker, Bjorn scrubs at his face tiredly.  "I don't know," he confesses.  "My gut feeling is that Verrik is still walking around, and finding him is our best option."  He broods for a second.  "Easier said than done, though."

Standing, he adds, "The other thing we need to do is search Dorian's body.  Want to do that first, or after trying to find whoever cleaned this room last?"

[Rezantis]

"Whoever cleaned the room. Dorian's body will keep for now, but the longer we put this off the less likely we are to get anything useful."

Rez makes for the door.

[Bjorn]

"Hold on a second," Bjorn says, putting a hand out to pause Nathan.  "Searching Dorian's body is a priority, too.  Somebody's already grabbed one piece of real evidence, and I don't plan to give them any time to strip the corpse if we can help it.  Why don't we split up?  You can take examining the body, because, no offense, big hulking barbarians tend to intimidate the help."  He grimaces.  "Not that I likely do much better, but we can hope."

[Rezantis]

Nathan grimaces.

"Odds are that we're already far, far too la-wait, Kevin was going to have Dorian's remains kept under watch, wasn't he?  Any idea where, or should I go and ask?"

[Bjorn]

Rubbing at the back of his neck in thought, Bjorn narrows his eyes.  "He said the remains would be sealed, or such.  Probably means they're in the catacombs, but I don't know for sure."

[Rezantis]

"Hm. In that case, I'd probably better go and get Lord Kevin's permission first. I'll tell him you sent m-" Nathan yawns, "Meet up tomorrow in the library again, or do you want to come and find me when we're both done?"

[Bjorn]

"Library tomorrow," Bjorn says, fighting off the urge to match Nathan's yawn, "unless either of us finds something big.  Then go look for the other person."  He shrugs.  "If I don't find anything amazing, I'll probably be in my quarters."

[Rezantis]

"Mmhmm. I'll either be asleep in my tent in the stormrider camp, or at the archery range if I can't sleep. Either way, g'luck."

Nathan walks off to try and find Lord Kevin - assuming he's still awake.

[Brian]

Nathan goes off in search of Lord Kevin.

Nathan now goes to In Too Deep.

[Brian]

After watching Nathan amble off in search of Lord Kevin, Bjorn searches for a servant.

However, the nearest servant informs Bjorn, "We don't clean Master Durant's room -- he asked us not to bother, since he liked things set up in a specific manner.  I don't think anyone's gone in there to clean since ... Bethany, I think, woke him up when she came in to clean.  And that was near a week ago, now."

[Bjorn]

Bjorn hums thoughtfully.  "I don't suppose you've noticed anyone else about these chambers recently?" he asks.