#elsewhere

A gaunt appearance, a smell not so far from death, the woman might seem almost sluagh like- she has not been starved, this is who she is. Her garments are faded mourning clothes. Zara has seen one of these at Firnost once, but they are well known if not always trusted to the Sluagh. This is an Adhene, a dark kin, but of the Keremet type. Those who are rumored to walk black paths for this or that master and to fufill the contracts bargained upon. Keremet, the soul of a mortal whisked into the dreaming and enchantment in the last moment of their lives and forever changed by it.

She tilts her head, watching.

The Keremet does not seem to notice she is there , or else she does not care and does not react. They are said to feel less.

Zara mimes a silent spinning, gathering threads... an omen on this thing before her.

Oh three fold their legacies... their courts not so easily determined, but the purpose... this woman is the sword of Damacles, her chains the string that holds her from falling and bringing doom, but upon who or what?

Zara nudges at the edges og the vision, to see what threads lay close...

Shielded... sealed off, and not by the Keremet. He has used his power to weaverward the secret? POTENT..and costly for him. Much dross had to be consumed to place that.

"Mmm.."

"You guard and guard... speak to me, seal, and they secret reveal..."

A good bypass, the seal flares in the dreaming, and the Keremet's eyes open wider. THAT she can notice it seems, but what might surprise another greatly has merely caught her off guard. Nevertheless, Athena may whisper her questions

"For whom does the Keremet's justice bide?"

"The Keremet has no justice, merely a task." The whisper says. She has asked the wrong question despite the symbolism and gotten an answer she did not seek while the one she does is postponed.

"And what is her task?"

"To claim the soul of the mortal mother of the Baron of High Reeds"

"Why is she tasked so?"

"To bring another sidhe soul to claim that body" The whisper dies

and the cantrip ends. She is surprised. SHe thought she'd get more questions to ask it.

Zara considers.

But the Keremet speaks "Did the Baron send you?"

"...no..."

"Free me." A voice says calmly, resolutely, but with little passion "Free me so I may complete my mission"

"You would steal a soul."

"Yes. Much like was once done to me." She says

She seems to feel no regret in this admission

"You were already dead."

"Dying, not dead, my final reward forever denied me"

"I remember..." She tilts her head "Music."

"But I no longer know the melody"

"WHat happens if you complete your task?"

"I go onto the next task. "

"So no rest or reward for you."

"Well, I would be out of this prison"

Octa sends messages... visions... upstairs is elaborate, intriguing. The Astrolabe. I have never seen anything like it

"Did the Baron place you here?"

Images of an Astrolabe but it has nothing to do with the night sky..something akin to gauging wisps?

Nay, it is a key that allows one to calculate souls movements!

"Yes. He wished to preserve the mortal I pursued for some reason I surmise"

"I see. What know you of the soul you would place?"

"Much."

"Indeed?"

"I know the soul I carried in the casket, yes. Title. House. Name. More than the soul itself will remember. The servant often knows more than the master"

"Often, yes."

"Who did you carry?"

"If I tell you, will you free me?"

"Mayhaps. I am determining what to do with you."

"A countess of the dragon"

"How long have you been held here?"

"Five years, four months, 3 days, 6 hours and..so forth"

"It is, perhaps too late for what was hoped for. The Count will fade, but she will not be in a prime means to claim it"