Day 3

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Eventually the group finds themselves in a new part of the city. The stone is cleaner, the air is brighter, and everything seems far better cared for. Whether this is illusion or truth, it’s hard to mistake the trickling sound of a fountain ahead, drawing you into view of a massive open courtyard. Rising out of the middle of it is a tall building with a strangely crooked spire, topped with a globe like a watchful eye.

Closer, it’s easy to read the carved sign above the doorway.

LIBRARY

Perhaps there are answers here.

LOWER STACKS | RESTRICTED SECTION | OBSERVATORY

Comments

[perfectisnteasy]

[CLU blinks, the information already committed to his memory - literally - and looks over his shoulder at her, then moves aside so she can look]

What is it?

[persequor]

[ Arya is suddenly trying to push her way in. ]

What is it? What's it say!

[honorinflames]

[after he reads over it... Zuko just kind of quietly steps back.

So others can get in to see; so he can think.]

[fredless]

[Her voice is quiet. Slightly hollow]

It's about Libet.

[It was about more than that, truthfully]

We have to find a way to get all this back to the castle somehow.

[perfectisnteasy]

That other castle, with all the dead people. [he's done his homework]

Don't worry. I've got it all.

[persequor]

There's another castle? What happened to it?

[fredless]

It died. [Fred doesn't bother hiding the truth from her, despite her age. She's clearly capable] They all died.

I saw them. They were like us.

[perfectisnteasy]

[CLU holds up his disc, and it flares to life, motes of glowing blue code suddenly hovering above it like a swarm of fireflies. slowly, they rearrange into words - excerpts from the journal]

... And they left a letter. This one...

[sixguns]

[Noah reads it all, craning his neck to see over the others. A dead castle, Libet? He's never heard of it before. He files it away to ask later.]

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

[Flynn steps up, reading the words carefully once... and again before taking a step back, stroking a hand over his beard]

Interesting. Very interesting...

[He'd say more but he's got a lot to think about]

[youhavebeenflynned]

[Harry read the page over somebody's shoulder. This is all news to him. But the message sinks in quickly. So that's Paradisa's secret power source.]

That's interesting.