[color=A0A0A0][h2]Fleuri Jodeau[/h2][/color]

[color=A0A0A0][i]This looks promising,[/i][/color] Fleuri thought as he found the captain's journal in the desk.  Unfortunately, it looked like whoever had murdered the man had also taken steps to cover their tracks- many of the journal's pages had been ripped out.

Even so, they hadn't been [i]quite[/i] thorough enough when covering their tracks, because he did find one relevant passage still intact.  It didn't tell much, but it did confirm that the fort captain knew about the shard, and was in contact with someone other than the crown.  Whoever it was, the captain didn't believe that their correspondence- whatever it was- went against his duties to the crown.  Clearly, his faith must have been misplaced, because somehow it had led to the deaths of himself and and everyone entrusted to his command.

[color=A0A0A0]"I found something, Sir Fionn,"[/color] Fleuri informed his knight-brother.  [color=A0A0A0]"It looks like the fort captain's journal.  A lot of it has been ripped out, but they didn't get everything- there's still one passage of relevance."[/color]  Fleuri offered the journal to Fionn.  He wasn't sure if the former mercenary would be able to get anything more out of it, but it was worth letting him look at it.

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