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The police want to verify Alzar’s claims and use some magic scrying on him , which clears him immediately. There are some questions. Rumor has it that she had spurned advances of Stephanos Torenescu, and yet the hair under her nails was red. The fighter has implicated The Veiled Society, but to what degree? A tribune with Alzar goes to the Vorloi House. Fortunato Vorloi and Lucia live here.
The house is empty. Inside are signs of violence – dagger and bloodstains on the floor and broken dishes. There are some things that implicate Torenescu lie a signet ring found here. There is a dagger with more red hairs, and pitch on the rungs of the ladder going down.
They head to the house the fighter came from – Turano’s Guest House. It is deserted and someone was here recently. It is a small building recently rented to a blacksmith named Skevlos. There is an old bed, esk and a chair. Muddly tracks lead from the floor to the trapdoor. There is wine with the seal of Trouscan Estates, and trap door back to the cellars. There is a black leather hood in here, and bloody bandages in a corner. There is a roll of parchment in between the beams, with an X on Fortunato’s house, and also Zweis Radu’s house, Baron Vorloi’s guest house, and Rattlebone Inn. A search by constables shows no tunnels in any of those areas.
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