Pushing the Sky!

[Carthrat]

As Cosgrove leans to give the case to Charlie, he feels a strange reluctance to hand it over, even though it really doesn't seem to have much to do with him.

Nonetheless, Charlie quickly takes it, and puts it further into the car.

[Dracos]

"Got any idea, by the way, while it was glowing like crazy earlier?"

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"It was glowing?" asks Richard, blinking.

[Dracos]

"Oh, yah.  Glowing all purple and such.  Same with my short sword actually.  Kinda like it was reacting to it.  Didn't know you had a magic glowing box?"

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Charlie shakes his head. "Nope. It got given to me pretty much out of the blue, in fact," he says.

Richard shakes his head. "Your sword was glowing? This is getting pretty strange...

I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Richard Leyes. I worship Selene- perhaps you've heard of her, I don't know. Fitz also worships the Lady.

But lately, there's been some strange activity happening around us, and we're honestly not sure what's going on. I plan to speak with a higher member of our order soon. Perhaps you'd like to join us? I take it you don't just carry those swords for show-"

Richard eyes the weapons at your belt-

"-and I don't believe we have a reason to fear you. If your sword reacts to the briefcase, as you say, it is almost certain they are connected. One may lead to hints about the other, and vice versa."

[Dracos]

"Well, I'm in no rush at the moment and I admit, I am a bit curious about the whole deal, though if you try and make off with either, you'll not get very far."

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Richard, shrugs. "Fitz, that's allright with you, right? We'd better going going quickly- the government will clean up this mess. I don't think there's anything further we can do."

Fitz obligingly gets in after nodding in assent, and Richard revs up the engine and takes off, leaving the scene of destruction behind them...

<->

A couple of hours later, the car is outside of London and speeding along a freeway. Richard turns it into a road marked 'Prviate: Residents Only'. The area around the road is very verdent and well-kept; lush lawns, carefully-tended trees and hedges; no wonder, seeing the large manor-house at the end. It looks very much like the home of a rich millionaire, or some such.

"We're here," announces Richard, turning to Fitz. "The house of Sir Edward Stonnington, himself. If this package was really supposed to arrive in our hands, then he should know about it."

[baka]

"With luck," replies Fitz, nodding. "Someone from the order called me about it, actually. I couldn't talk, since I was in the building, but his name was, uhm... James Royce Davis, that's it."

[Carthrat]

"Never heard of him," says Richard, shrugging. "Perhaps 'ol Stonnington has."

Richard pulls up near the front door, and a valet comes running up to the car, and Richard obligingly gets out, as does everyone else.

The mansion looks more impressive from close up. A fountain stands near the front door, and in the middle stands a figure instantly recognizable to Fitz, Richard, and Charlie. Cosgrove doesn't instantly identify the statue as Selene, but it's not a hard guess to make. The marble statue of a tall woman, wearing a long dress and holding a cresent moon in her hands is pretty deific, after all.

Richard turns to Cosgrove. "You'll need to hand over your weapons when we enter," he says, a little apologetically. "That's no problem, is it?"

[Dracos]

"eh...  A bit.  Where do you want them to be left?  And if anyone tries to make off with them, I'll remind you guys what happened to the last folks who tried that."

Dracos

[Carthrat]

"You'll hand them to a servant as you walk in. Don't worry. We're not in the business of stealing," replies Richard, dryly.

[Dracos]

Cosgrove frowned, but nodded, his curiousity warring with his innate distrustfulness of others with his swords.  "These better be right here when I come back then."

DRacos

[baka]

"Well," interjected Fitz. "Shall we go and meet Sir Edward? I want to find out what's going on with all this."

[Carthrat]

"Yes," replies Richard, nodding. He heads towards the door, and knocks on the elaborate door-knocker.

The door is promptly opened by a servant, and you can the lavishly furnished interior of the building. The opening hall contains beautiful carpets, many pieces of exotic-looking artwork, and a grandfather clock, which strikes the time- it's getting late, there were 6 gongs.

"Excuse me, what is the purpose of your visit?" asks the servant, eyeing the lot of you.

[baka]

Fitz smiles at the servant, nodding slightly.

"Jeremy and Charles Fitzwilliam, Richard Leyes, and Cosgrove Cromdale," he announces, gesturing at each as he speaks. "We would like to meet with Sir Edward as soon as possible, concerning a very important matter."