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She does indeed, and she looks it over; trapped? She doesn't open it yet.

It doesn't appear to be

She is careful, no gunk that might be poison on it. No catches

How is it closed/sealed/tied?

A thin string

She kenns the whole thing.

It appears to be chimerical, but just chimerical paper; There is a vague feeling of 'bad news'

Jess bites her lower lip and frowns at it. "Someone find Constance and Tito Woden. I need them here, now."

And they are found

Tito arrives first, "My liege, you remembered you had a seer, the great Tito-Woden" He says

Constance is not far off his heels "Jessica?"

"Bit of a situation here.... glad to see you both, kenn this." she shows them the scroll.

Tito kens it "Interesting, doesn't appear to be cursed, but it bears ill tidings, for us, I think"

Constance glances over "At first I thought that was ordinary chimerical paper, but it's almost as if it is carved out of wax or.. chittin? Finely pressed mind, with paper meldings"

"Yeah. It got here via some huge beetle kind of chimera. It attached Phobos, Demos ran to help, I ran after Demos.

"May I read it?" Constance asks

"Yes. We should open it." And Jessica does so; if someone's getting hurt by this, it'll be her.

No explosions, no curse! But there are alarming words

She reads them, holding it so the others can as well; assuming she is able to read them, of course.

Brethren, when the Summer Sun Ascends, the Swarm must rise! Dreams that devour, Dreams that conquer! We are to ascend! Unless... unless unless... the Prophesied traitor rises! By her power we might fall! Find her! Kill her! So we may kill her! If you cannot find her, destroy those that might protect her! Renaissance, we know she is somewhere in Renaissance_

Jess looks at Tito Woden.

TIto Woden ponders for a moment

Then blushes "I apologize. This SWARM is new to me"

"New to all of us, Tito. Think we should call in Otem?"

"I think yes, and perhaps Johnny Twofeathers as well. I need to check my old books. Maybe consult with some other seers if you'll allow?"

She nods. "Let's get everyone and meet in the library?"

"Of course. But does that include Fontaine? He's healing Phobos still I think" Tito reminds

"Oh, actually, Fontaine has help.. from a kid"

"Which kid is helping Fontaine?" a frown.

"Our guest" Constance says "The young Squire. He's a Daireann. They know their poisons, and their antidotes"

"Careful" Tito Woden says "They prefer to be seen as warriors but yes, I had forgotten "

"The lad had something to ease Phobos recovery even more" Constance goes on "Squire Brogan said he had 'just the thing' and handed over an elixir to Fontaine. I believe the boy is back to playing with his friend Holger"

"Right. That makes sense. Ok, let's move to the library."

Folks gather in the library soon enough. Otem among them

Jessica passes the scroll around to be read.

They look it over, Otem comments "Swarm? That is.. not promising"

Johnny, the Nunnehi from the North says "insect spirits are often seen as hateful towards man"

"Here's a thing." Jess volunteers "It refers to Renaissance. That's not what local or mainland natives would call it, would they?"

"No, it is not" Otem nods "You named it that, or at least populaized it?"

"Changed the name from the previous leadership's name; it wasn't auspicious." she murmurs "Summer Sun... Solstice? 'Swarm' sounds like ... something Biblical, locusts? A female traitor from prophesy...."

"One they fear, one who might be on our side" Neemu the Troubadour observes

"Or could be convinced to be?"

"Smells of prophecy" Tito Woden says

"But not a native prophesy. Which I guess narrows it down a little but.... still a pretty big spread of options."

"I can tell you that thing looked more like a Scorpian man than an insect man, if there's a difference," Demos says "But it went after my brother. It couldn't find this chosen one, so it went after a protector"

"Was it a messenger, do you think?"

Demos frowns "If it was, it stopped delivering long enough to try to kill my brother"

"I mean, it seems weird that it would be carrying this around if it wasn't supposed to be taking it somewhere."

"You have a point, my liege" Bevera nods "Which means there must be more of those things in your domain"

Coy says "Increased patrols?"