Jake mao calm himself down as the even where he came face to face with an uned demon quickly bees a memory. He only imagine what the rest of the paranormal division is up to while he's not actively paying attention to, despite not wanting to. The mermaid is currently pying around with a now fming idol of... herself. From what he uood, these are usually meant to summon something, as he imagine someone calling your an interdimensional level would make one quite curious to go check it out. For a moment, Jake works up the ce to ask what he actually wao ask her.

  "Esstrey... I do need your help with something, I believe a set of nobles is using a get-together as a disguise to plot against me in room 3-F, and I need a way to know what is going on in there. Do you have a way to iigate it?" Esstrey turns to look at Jake with a predatory look, she puts the idol dowo some books about beas she got from Plynka. If she works on this, it might slohatever it is she's pnning.

  "Yes... yes, I believe I help with that. Give me a sed." She looks around for a bit, and slowly wahrough the roht up until she stops at a random point, slowly gets her cw ready and... smashes a hole into the wall. In her ing from the hole is a rat, a small ohat must have made the walls its home while preying o. Now it has the unfortunate experieneeting the good doctor as well. She puts the rat on a table, and begins cutting it open.

  "You see young master Jake, power es in many forms. What you asked of me just now was information, information, after all, is half the battle. The other half is violehey do go so well hand in hand. As the future Duke of Malencia, it is your duty to know how your subordinates handle power. Had you asked this of Rowan, he probably would have sent one of the guards to spy on them directly, a method so crude it just might work. Kharn would have probably sent a spy to g to the window or something, while the paranormal division would... I actually don't know what they would do." Esstrey begins to dig into the rat with gusto, tiny ans are removed as her blood magic killed the rat at some point.

  "My specialty is blood magiething normally only found in vampires. When possible, I try to abuse this to the maximum that I , si's pretty hard to find a teacher in blood magic that doesn't suspect you to overthrow them. A lot of this is a learning experienyself as well, and in my studies I found something iing. Tree sap ts as blood, do you know what this means?" Jake simply looks at Esstrey to wait for her to expin things, he only knows some degree of dark magid only ever had blood magic performed on him.

  "It means, that blood magi't about the blood. An incorrect term, it would be more accurate to say that blood magic is about... fuel. A useless distin in practice, but a distin heless. It is also the self, you have someone else's an, but they will never fun as well as one's own. Even the an of aical twin is... not perfect." The rat she's w on begins to show noticeable mutations, its fur falls out while its skin bees unnaturally pale. The ium begins to bloat, arey begins to close up the rat.

  "Get up soldier, scout 3-F in this building, a your findings." A rat ghoul, an undead resulting from blood magic, the enrged ium existing to aodate the brain, while most ans were removed as to not burde with any other s than its mission. It gives a curt bow, and runs off much more polite than ghouls are thought to be capable of.

  "Power takes many forms, yet I have never seen a power strohan good teamwork. If humanity got its head out of its ass here for just five mihey would put every o the tord quer this world under a singur bahe same be said for non-humans." Jake looks at Esstrey like she's truly babbling now, overthrow the nobles? Fat ce, after all the power of nobles is...

  Esstrey then shows Jake a neer, oh a big headline and a fshy picture of a ting beheaded. The headline leads as follows;'Revolution in Ri! Dangerous men have decred the sed Rin Republid this time is even bloodier tha! The Rin forces loyal to the were quickly overrun by these agitators, and the Republis have decred iions to iheir neighbors, no doubt thirsting for mhteous blood!'. The neer scare Jake, despite not knowing which try Ri would be. What does Esstrey mean by this?

  "See those ons they are holding in the picture? Those are muskets, it alloeasant to blow a hole in a knight at great distahey look a little different than the muskets I knew with the glowing underbarrels, but they very clearly serve the same purpose. I want those ons, when every man pick up a on and bee a knight's worth of power, dragons really stand up to anything at that point?" Esstrey seems to have minimal i in the Republis at first gnce, but her ideology has far more overp with them than anyone in Faeruhe nobles will import the muskets, they crave power after all, but muskets are the prelude to revolution.

  Jake isn't given much time to think about Esstrey's proposition to import these ons, not that Esstrey has any doubt he pns to accept it. Soon after Esstrey fihe scurrying of a rat could be heard, a rat with a skin far too pale. It makes a little salute irey's dire before painting with it's blood.

  The picture it paints is a very bloody one indeed, as it depicts people sitting around a table with a map in the ter, pictures adorn the map, and with some help from Esstrey the rat mao draw as close as possible as to what it saw. The map is Malen terrain, and the pictures depict various members of Malen court. A plot in the making exposed by a rat, ohat falls dead the moment the task is aplished, and is carried of by a bck cat that came from...somewhere.

  Esstrey didn't evehe rat up in a way to vince Jake to import muskets, nobles do the whole plotting against one another all on their own.

  Prickly