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[center][b][color=556B2F]Location:[/color][/b] Talink Estate (Inside)

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	Thalken's gaze searched the room as he slowly got to his feet once more. His head still throbbed, and his ears were ringing from that little girl's piercing scream. He was fortunate he could hear at all. He let out a growl of frustration as he rubbed his ears. Once he had regained his footing, he started to carefully explore the room. His hand rested on the hilt of his Dao as his gaze scrutinized the contents of the room. He made his rounds before moving out into the hall. 

	Eventually, the ringing in his ears began to dissipate, and it was instead replaced by an eerie silence that pervaded the manor. Perhaps the girl had left, or perhaps she was silently plotting his demise. He leaned more towards the latter. His senses were heightened as he tensely walked through the halls. He glanced inside the rooms he passed for any sign of the girl but to no avail. In a way nothing and everything seemed amiss all at once. His intellect and his gut told him something terrible was afoot. 

	[I]Meanwhile,[/I] Thalcona seemed unfazed by the flash of annoyance in the Lady Crypt's eyes. After all, she wouldn't expect anything else. "It's a dangerous game you play," she chimed in during the woman's momentary lapse of speaking. It was probably a bit rude to interrupt one's thoughts, but her manners weren't much better than Thalken's, which were slim to none.

	The Lady Crypt's next statement took Thalcona by surpise. A glimmer of amusement lit up her widened eyes, and she had to bite her lips to keep from laughing. It wasn't the proposition in and of itself that she found humorous. No, it was the mental image of Thalken asking the Lord Dywell for his daughter's hand in marriage that made her ready to bust a lung in laughter. She would pay good money to see such a sight. Fortunately, the Lady Crypt's attention was diverted before she could.

	While the Lady Crypt addressed the others, Thalcona strained to keep her amusement under wraps, but a few snickers managed to slip out. She straightened when she was suddenly addressed. She gave a slight nod of her head, not trusting herself with words. She then followed them at a distance.