Chapter 29: Culprit?
Jack quickly resumed walking to the Cast residence, all the while he was making a game plan in his head.
(Alright I'll swing by the Thieves Guild first and then I'll contact the Assassins Guild with my first request. Once that is complete I'll head on over to the church and resume my duties while also warning Gregor about the Death Clouds.)
Taking a deep breath and letting it out Jack cleared his head as a headache was starting to form. Arriving at the residence Jack teleported inside Reginald's room. Surprising Reginald and Theresa who were in the room.
"Don't just teleport in here like that! Do you want us to die of a heart attack!" Theresa admonished jack strictly, much to the surprise of Reginald and Jack.
Neither one of them had ever seen Theresa this mad, or at least this vocal. She was a very shy individual who was a genius and did not want show off her intelligence as she felt it isolated her. The fact that she was actually yelling at Jack meant that she was extremely upset.
Seeing the surprised faces of the two Theresa blushed before bowing her head, "Sorry I didn't mean to yell it was just that you surprised me and we've all been under a lot of stress."
"It's quite alright I'll give a knock outside the window next time."
"Anyways I'm sure there's a reason for your visit?"
Hearing Reginald speak Jack jumped out of his stupor, and turned to Reginald energetically.
"I've learned what it was that put you into such a state, it was a parasite called Death Clouds."
After hearing this Reginald looked at Jack slightly confused, "Alright, should I know of it? I don't believe I've heard of it before."
"No, but now this at least gives us a lead. I am going to reach out to several allies and request for them to investigate. Hopefully we can get some information on who is behind this."
Reginald was turned to his sister who was now peeling an apple and feeding it to him, but when he heard this he turned back to Jack.
"Don't we have the Brotherhood of the Labyrinth as a lead?"
"It's highly unlikely, seeing as the Death Clouds cause hallucinations, what you heard was most likely just a illusion."
Reginald shook his head an replied to Jack with determination in his eyes, "No, that was not part of the hallucinations. Because I soon fell into the actual hallucinations right after, they were hazy and terrifying, but the voice wasn't anything like that. I was scared but still fully cognate when I heard it."
Seeing how firm Reginald was with his words Jack furrowed his eyebrows before nodding to Reginald and putting his hand to his chin.
(What he said might not be true after all peoples memories are frequently wrong. But I've never seen Reginald be so sure about something... and Celine did say that it sounded mildly familiar. Is this really just human error or is this something bigger?)
Seeing Jack contemplating Reginald spoke up again, "Another thing was within the hallucinations the voices were all ones that I had heard before. But the voice that said Brotherhood of the Labyrinth was one that I did not recognize."
Hearing this Jack blinked a couple of times before his face paling slightly.
(So it wasn't a illusion after all... I need to warn Celine, but first I'll continue with my plan and just add the part about the Brotherhood of the Labyrinth.)
Jack then promptly turned to Reginald and sat across from Theresa. Pulling out his Journal he picked up a pen and started writing in it for a while before putting the pen down and once again turning towards Reginald.
"Thank you, in complete honesty you may have just saved countless lives, from what I've heard anyone who wields Death Clouds is not a small threat."
Reginald smiled weakly, "Let's not celebrate too early just because I didn't die the first time doesn't mean that they wont try again."
Eyeing Reginald up and down Jack said off handedly, "It's not like you to be so confident in something Reg I think you might be growing up." Wiping his eye sarcastically Jack sniffed before continuing, "Gods they grow up so fast."
Reginald simply glared at Jack without saying anything.
"Alright, I get it, I get it, I'll stop" Jack said more towards Theresa, who upon hearing the teasing words was wielding the peeler quite menacingly.
Jack got up and walked to the door opening it, but before he left he looked over his shoulder, "Rest easy Reg, I'll find whoever's behind this and take them down."
With that Jack closed the door and teleported away, Jack then took a leisurely walk toward the park. He was currently thinking about the Brotherhood of the Labyrinth, and whether or not he knew of it.
But his thoughts were derailed by the sudden growling of his stomach, "Ah that's right I haven't had anything to eat since last nights dinner."
Turning quickly away from the direction he was heading Jack instead stopped in a local bakery that just happened to be across the street.
Opening the door the pleasant aroma of fresh baking bread mixed with the sweet sent of the pastries filled Jack's nose and nearly made him drool on the spot. Walking up to the counter Jack bought 3 baguettes and a dozen muffins.
To any outsider this would seem like a normal amount of bread a middle class citizen would buy to feed his family for a week. But Jack was buying this all for himself, and it was to last about 10 minutes at most. Since Jack had been basically burning his Aura since this morning he had used up a lot of energy, and in turn needed to eat a lot more to gain it back.
The young male clerk handed Jack his muffins but then spoke up, "The baguettes will be out in a second they just finished baking, don't want ya to burn your hands after all!"
Nodding toward the young man Jack stood idly looking hungrily at the rest of the baked treats out on display before seeing a middle aged woman come out of the back with 3 baguettes. Looking at her and the young man side by side you could tell that they were related.
Jack reached out and grabbed the baguettes, but as he did so he noticed a tattoo of a three headed serpent on her fore arm. Looking back up at the woman he thought nothing of it, and left with his food.
Walking out of the store Jack turned the corner before dipping into an alley and promptly wolfing down his mid afternoon snack. Finishing it completely he strolled down the market district observing people as he went.
Because of the recent killings there were significantly less people out shopping or going about heir daily business. But since most people didn't have a choice there was still plenty of people out and about.
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Amongst these people, unbeknownst to Jack, was the purple robed man that had intervened the fight between Jack and Specter. Looking down at the ingredients a vendor was selling he frowned lightly before tsking and walking to find a different vendor.
Walking to another Vendor he arrived at one that was claiming to sell potions. Talking a look at the items laid out on the table the man saw that most of them were fake. But there was one sitting to the left of center that he could feel magical energy coming from it.
Steeping closer the man approached the vendor.
"How much for that one." Man man spoke dryly as he pointed towards the real potion.
The vendor in response took aglance at which potion the man pointed at before speaking, "5 gold"
"That's too much, 1 gold"
"5 gold"
Seeing that the vendor was not budging and the fact that according to his inferencing it wasn't a bad deal he laid 5 gold coins on the table before pocketing the potion and leaving.
The vendors eyes watched the man leave for a few moments before saying in a hushed tone, "Track 'im"
And going back to watching the crowd for potential idiots that would by his 'potions'. Yawning he stretched his neck revealing a three headed serpent tattoo on it.
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Annalise was working the bar as usual, smiling sweetly to all the customers she moved quickly and provided some flirtatious movements. But if one were to look closer they could tell that she was upset about the lack of business after the killings happened.
As she was suggesting a girl to a portly looking gentleman she eyed a familiar figure enter through the door. The figure in question was Jack and he looked like he hadn't had a goodnights sleep in a couple days. Approaching the bar Annalise gave him one of her recently rare genuine smiles, she was happy to see that he was alive and well after not hearing anything from him in about a week.
Jack nodding slightly to Annalise's smile ordered a drink before leaning his back against the bar and watching the girls perform. Taking small sips from his drink Jack turned back around and looked at Annalise.
"Can I get the same one as last time?"
Annalise raised her eyebrow at Jack before winking at him.
"Go for it tiger, I'll go grab her. Room 66."
Jack nodded before gulping down the last of his drink and heading for the room. Jack quickly wrote down a note on what information he wanted before laying down on the bed.
Hearing the door open Jack sat up and looked the girl who entered the room. She looked even more attractive than before but Jack was too engrossed in going about his plan that he didn't care. Handing her the note with the information on it Jack laid back down on the bed.
"You know what to do with that, and now just wake me up after 30 minutes, and don't do anything funny while I'm asleep."
The girl simply giggled before saying, "No promises"
But Jack had already fallen asleep on the bed and was blissfully dreaming.
Walking to the side of the bed the girl leaned over and watched Jack's sleeping face, "It's a pity he doesn't wan to actually have some fun, he's quite cute"
Sighing the girl looked at the clock in the room before sitting down on the bed next to the sleeping Jack.
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