*lost in thought. Thinking about the last few weeks...and farther back. Smirks at myself, and sips my coffee.*

He nodded and took your arm again as you indicated to him that you were ready to continue on, and so they did, coming around the north side of the square now, the breadth of George Street looming ahead of them.

As you had earlier, he now lifts his hat to a passerby of his acquaintance, making a mental note that he must call on the man soon, after a favour which had been asked of him by someone close. He would see it done.

“A doctor, yes. But one of our doctors, who will look with eyes not limited by the blinders of science alone.” Edinburgh was a city famed for its medical men, and since the Scottish Enlightenment, continued to produce doctors of excellent quality. But this was a malady beyond the ken of mere medicine as the profession understood it, which was just as well, given how Edinburgh had handled the last major outbreak of plague – by simply walling up the victims and then building overtop their tomb. Progress.

“Our Archive, the dazzling Mademoiselle DuPont, whom you glimpsed earlier, had recognised some pattern in the symptoms presenting in the cases down in the Cowgate. Apparently, in conversation with her sister Archives, she was able to uncover a connection to a centuries-old sort of plague.”

He gave a slow shake of his head before sighing. “Wretched business, all of this. But the good doctor is one of those physicians who had his training in Persia, and reputedly studied under the same lineage of scholars who trained Saladin’s own physics. Fascinating, really. It is remarkable that the records he has access to have survived all this time and turmoil in the region.”

enyah has started a new game with the following players:
enyah

" S T A R T G A M E : t r u e "{ " g a m e I d " : " 1 7 1 9 7 5 0 4 3 0 " , " p l a y e r L i s t " : [ " e n y a h " ] , " r o l l N u m b e r " : 0 , " c u r r e n t P l a y e r " : 0 , " d i c e " : { " f a c e s " : [ 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ] , " r e r o l l " : [ t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e ] } , " s c o r e 0 " : { " 1 " : n u l l , " 2 " : n u l l , " 3 " : n u l l , " 4 " : n u l l , " 5 " : n u l l , " 6 " : n u l l , " p l a y e r " : n u l l , " u p _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " b o n u s " : n u l l , " 3 k " : n u l l , " 4 k " : n u l l , " s s " : n u l l , " l s " : n u l l , " f h " : n u l l , " y a h _ t o k e n " : n u l l , " y " : n u l l , " c " : n u l l , " y a h _ b o n u s " : 0 , " b o t _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " g _ t o t a l " : n u l l } , " o w n e r " : " e n y a h " , " s t a t u s " : " r e a d y " , " r o u n d " : 0 , " l a s t P o s t " : 1 7 1 9 7 5 0 4 3 0 }

enyah has started a new game with the following players:
enyah

" S T A R T G A M E : t r u e "{ " g a m e I d " : " 1 7 1 9 7 5 0 2 7 1 " , " p l a y e r L i s t " : [ " e n y a h " ] , " r o l l N u m b e r " : 0 , " c u r r e n t P l a y e r " : 0 , " d i c e " : { " f a c e s " : [ 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ] , " r e r o l l " : [ t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e ] } , " s c o r e 0 " : { " 1 " : n u l l , " 2 " : n u l l , " 3 " : n u l l , " 4 " : n u l l , " 5 " : n u l l , " 6 " : n u l l , " p l a y e r " : n u l l , " u p _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " b o n u s " : n u l l , " 3 k " : n u l l , " 4 k " : n u l l , " s s " : n u l l , " l s " : n u l l , " f h " : n u l l , " y a h _ t o k e n " : n u l l , " y " : n u l l , " c " : n u l l , " y a h _ b o n u s " : 0 , " b o t _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " g _ t o t a l " : n u l l } , " o w n e r " : " e n y a h " , " s t a t u s " : " r e a d y " , " r o u n d " : 0 , " l a s t P o s t " : 1 7 1 9 7 5 0 2 7 1 }

She met your gaze, her own steady beneath it as she willed herself not to look away, as if you might see the truth in such an evasion. Uncommon concern indeed. If you only knew…

A pale blush of colour painted her cheeks, and she hoped you would read it as an abashed rise to your lauding her for her charitable concern. If you thought to give Hettie the credit for it then she was happy to do so too. And her Aunt was, in part, responsible in as much as she had set her on this path by volunteering her to Magdalen.

“I am sorry the solution to the case still eludes you.” And she was. If with all the resources at your Order’s disposal even you could not get to the bottom of the malaise… But then you were just men, gifted men, but just men, and subject to their mortal limitations.

Her brow dances up with surprise. “A doctor? Really?” She took a small step forward, waiting for you to follow suit and take the lead again. “I did not think this was something that medical men could fathom?”

enyah has started a new game with the following players:
enyah

" S T A R T G A M E : t r u e "{ " g a m e I d " : " 1 7 1 9 7 5 0 0 8 1 " , " p l a y e r L i s t " : [ " e n y a h " ] , " r o l l N u m b e r " : 0 , " c u r r e n t P l a y e r " : 0 , " d i c e " : { " f a c e s " : [ 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ] , " r e r o l l " : [ t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e ] } , " s c o r e 0 " : { " 1 " : n u l l , " 2 " : n u l l , " 3 " : n u l l , " 4 " : n u l l , " 5 " : n u l l , " 6 " : n u l l , " p l a y e r " : n u l l , " u p _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " b o n u s " : n u l l , " 3 k " : n u l l , " 4 k " : n u l l , " s s " : n u l l , " l s " : n u l l , " f h " : n u l l , " y a h _ t o k e n " : n u l l , " y " : n u l l , " c " : n u l l , " y a h _ b o n u s " : 0 , " b o t _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " g _ t o t a l " : n u l l } , " o w n e r " : " e n y a h " , " s t a t u s " : " r e a d y " , " r o u n d " : 0 , " l a s t P o s t " : 1 7 1 9 7 5 0 0 8 1 }

night falls and her darkness opens

enyah has started a new game with the following players:
enyah

" S T A R T G A M E : t r u e "{ " g a m e I d " : " 1 7 1 9 7 4 9 9 0 0 " , " p l a y e r L i s t " : [ " e n y a h " ] , " r o l l N u m b e r " : 0 , " c u r r e n t P l a y e r " : 0 , " d i c e " : { " f a c e s " : [ 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 ] , " r e r o l l " : [ t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e , t r u e ] } , " s c o r e 0 " : { " 1 " : n u l l , " 2 " : n u l l , " 3 " : n u l l , " 4 " : n u l l , " 5 " : n u l l , " 6 " : n u l l , " p l a y e r " : n u l l , " u p _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " b o n u s " : n u l l , " 3 k " : n u l l , " 4 k " : n u l l , " s s " : n u l l , " l s " : n u l l , " f h " : n u l l , " y a h _ t o k e n " : n u l l , " y " : n u l l , " c " : n u l l , " y a h _ b o n u s " : 0 , " b o t _ t o t a l " : n u l l , " g _ t o t a l " : n u l l } , " o w n e r " : " e n y a h " , " s t a t u s " : " r e a d y " , " r o u n d " : 0 , " l a s t P o s t " : 1 7 1 9 7 4 9 9 0 0 }

BDI

Busty Dreamy Imp

Not seeing any streetwalkers around

ENCHANT

Each
Night
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Thought

Next: Thought

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Yearn

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Damn it, ah, Happy Sunday, and out.

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