[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/210131/53a200cc81a754fbfea32363291eca9d.png [/img][/center][indent][indent][indent][color=gray][sub][right][color=92278f][b]Location:[/b][/color]The City of Thorinn, Aetheria[/right][/sub][/color]
[hr]Seele sighed with relief as someone went to tend to Graves, and stared just a tad longer as Artemis took a…considerable moment to fully disarm herself. Huh. The girl was certainly resourceful—normally she’d have been glad for that, but right now she had to focus on more pressing matters. 

Lendie demanded answers, and she paled to imagine what might happen if she didn’t give them. 

“[color=92278f]Captain, I can assure you those reports were...well, they were justifiably made, yes, but they’re also wrong. We made a scene here, absolutely, yes, undeniably, and for that I am deeply and sincerely sorry. But the only danger here was to ourselves.[/color]” She gestured back towards Graves. “[color=92278f]This was little more than a scuffle over disagreements. The escalation was…unfortunate, but it wasn’t their fault. Magic was used, I fully admit, but it was for the sake of restraining my friend, who you can see is no threat to anyone right now.[/color]”

Frankly, she didn’t know if that was true. She didn’t want to [i]lie[/i] to Lendie, of course, and god forbid he’d get back up to his feet and start swinging again. All she could do was hope he was down for the count, but even then, she wasn’t sure that’d be enough to assuage the captain.

“[color=92278f]I sympathize with what you’re dealing with, here,[/color] she said. “[color=92278f]I’ve seen it too. My…ah, people, the Wayfarers, we’ve been dreadful to this city these past weeks—some of us even before that. My friends and I, we’re trying to help. I’m sure with everything else you’ve had thrown at you, you’ve heard of the recent string of disappearances? Wayfarers and citizens alike. Well, Drox has us investigating them. We’d just finished planning when the…disagreement started. Bad, I know—but we do have a plan, and that man is crucial to it.[/color]

“[color=92278f]Again, I am so terribly sorry for the disturbance. I’m not insisting you let us off the hook, but I am asking you, [i]please[/i], to give us one or two days to try and find these missing people. You have my name, my fraternity, you have all our faces—we can’t go anywhere. Once we’ve finished this investigation, we’ll march right down to the garrison and pay whatever fine, or serve whatever time you deem appropriate, but the window on this is closing and I don’t know when it will be open again.[/color]”

She breathed—gasped, nearly, for how empty her lungs were at the end. Well, Lendie had asked for an explanation, and Seele wasn’t particularly good at brevity. She only hoped what she’d given was [i]enough[/i], rather than too much.[/indent][/indent][/indent]