#scarsdale

Zara mutes the bluetooth speaker. "Hello, police? There is a disturbed person on Whiteview Road... he's.. screaming about being an arsonist?"

She turns the phone to catch his shouts.

And a nod to Marzanna as the scare props begin to be struck. The fear-filled glamour is delicious.

indeed, Symon, Marzanna, Lily, and Zara bask not just in the fear, but in the lesson of it. It looks like Hedgeclipper man was already on the phone too... because the police show up quickly

Zara thanks the operator, before briskly joinign the clean-up...

The boys in blue are HIGHLY motivated. One does not set fire to a house in an upperscale neighborhood and then expect police to stop looking.

Reginald will find his house... a house. No smoke, no burnt wraiths...

Indeed, the sluagh are shadows.. shadows that have fled.

And Lily whispers "the coins were good weren't they?" SO proud of herself

"An excellent touch, little one. They may well have shifted the balance."

"Well, you told us it was about money" Lily basks in the glamour "And I had good teachers" A smile to Symon

Zara nods, and splays a hand on her chest as a gesture of acknowledgement for Symon.

"Thank you all for the help. Perhaps Bubbe will find some peace after this."

Symon grins gummily. “Maybe could have saved two coins for your eyes… nah. He’s not the type to appreciate the symbolism”

"Agreed. Now, how does a lovely cup of tea sound?"

He nods agreement. “Coffee shop with internet- I’ll look up those records you asked about. Don’t want to do that on your connection, even through a VPN.”

"Very soothing. My place ?" Marzanna offers for the tea? "Or would you prefer it at your family home or Earth Runes, Miss Zara?"

"AH, coffeshop, oh very well" She corrects herself

"Symon is something of a computer expert. Tziporah will get something back, in the end."

"And she does not need me any longer.." A voice of an old woman "I think I maybe able to move on.. and i should be fore I am.. unable again"

"She will be safe. We have her, Bubbe."

"G_d bless you for this..." And the woman... does not so much fade as glow and... gone

Marzanna sighs "And now she sees the next level of the mystery" Almost envious

"oh. she won't be with us for tea"

That from Lily

"I know, tis bittersweet."

Victorious, the slaugh find a shadowy corner of that coffee shop that , it turns out, makes some decent tea... by son of adam standards

A subdued celebration - but one fitting the kith.

Reginald did it all for the money - but by the time Symon is done, he won't even have that.

Save, perhaps, two pennies? One for each eye

Indeed. Symon leaves him the sluagh’s .. two cents.

(Fade to Fearful Education concluded)