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<blockquote data-quote="ellinor" data-source="post: 5665923" data-attributes="member: 14561"><p><strong>24x01</strong></p><p></p><p>A breeze ruffled the torn jerkin of the beaten Questor at Tavi’s feet. The sun was rising.</p><p></p><p>Staring at the Ehktian holy symbol hanging around the man’s neck, Tavi was sure he knew what was going on here . . . but he wasn’t ready to admit it, even to himself.</p><p></p><p>“Should we take him back to the Inquisition for questioning?” Twiggy asked. </p><p></p><p> “Or there’s an alley right there,” Savina replied, pointing. </p><p></p><p>“Savina, my dear,” Kormick said, “are you suggesting we drag an unconscious man into an alley to interrogate him? How far you’ve come.”</p><p></p><p>Tavi grabbed the man under the shoulders, pulled him into the alley, and threw a bucket of something – it was water, once – over the man’s face. “Wake up,” he barked.</p><p></p><p>The man gurgled and opened his eyes. </p><p></p><p><em>Time for answers,</em> Tavi thought. “Why did you attack us?” </p><p></p><p>“For the bounty.”</p><p></p><p>Tavi’s bad feeling about this instantly grew worse. “Who offered the bounty, and what are the terms?”</p><p></p><p>“Some Hennan family. Di something. Offered fifty thousand gold for the capture of . . .” the man propped himself up on an elbow and looked around. His eyes finally settled on Rose. “Her. Capture her, bring her to the Temple of the Questors in Pol Henna, ask for <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a.html#post4689072" target="_blank">‘Lira.’</a> ” He slumped back down and closed his eyes. “The notice said not to kill anyone. We didn’t kill anyone. —Did we?”</p><p></p><p>The man passed out again. Tavi, his bad feeling confirmed, squelched the urge to kick him—this man wasn’t the real target of his anger. </p><p></p><p>“Fifty thousand gold. Wind’s <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />,” Mena swore and smacked the wall beside her, mirroring Tavi’s feelings perfectly. “So every Questor from here to Pol Henna is looking for us.”</p><p></p><p>“Probably on the other side of Pol Henna, too,” Kormick pointed out.</p><p></p><p>“Diego <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a-22.html#post5420480" target="_blank">said our mother was under control</a>. He must have been wrong,” Tavi told Rose. </p><p></p><p>“This bounty was set by your <strong>mother</strong>?” Nyoko gasped. “What kind of sick woman would put a bounty on her own child?”</p><p></p><p>Tavi had asked that question, or variations on it, many times himself. He knew the answer. “A desperate one, who thinks it is the best way to protect Rose. She’s wrong about that, but she doesn’t know it.” He reached in his mind for a memory in which his mother let anyone else make a decision about Rose. He couldn’t find one. “She probably never will.” </p><p></p><p>In retrospect, Tavi couldn’t be surprised that their mother had taken such drastic steps. When she had herself left home at 16, trying to escape <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a-4.html#post4777017" target="_blank">the marriage her father had arranged for her</a>, her father had done the same thing to try to bring her back. Tavi had hoped she would avoid emulating her father’s heavy-handed abuse. He now saw that she was beyond caring about heavy-handedness. </p><p></p><p>Tavi put his arm around Rose’s shoulder and squeezed.</p><p></p><p>For a moment, all was quiet. But the sun was up now, and carts clattered in the distance. They had their answers. They bound the Questor and brought him to the Hall of the Inquisition to be dealt with.</p><p></p><p>As they explained what had happened, Lord Ono sat behind his desk, his head in his hands. He pressed his thumbs against his temples before looking up.</p><p></p><p>“Some Inquisitors are capable of going their <em>entire careers</em> without being attacked. You’ve been attacked twice in three months.”</p><p></p><p>“We understand how unusual this is, Lord Ono-san,” Tavi replied, as deferentially as possible. “It appears that our mother has set a reward for Rose’s return to Pol Henna. But we understand the importance of our work here in Cauldron and wish to continue it. We do not want to create any inconvenience for the Inquisition.”</p><p></p><p>Lord Ono got a far-away look in his eyes. “I long for the days of mere ‘inconvenience.’” He paused. “But we must put a stop to this at once. An attack on Signora di Raprezzi-san is an attack on the Inquisition, and it is unacceptable.” Lord Ono rang a bell near his shoulder. In a few seconds, a runner appeared. “Fetch Yudai and Mawu,” Lord Ono said.</p><p></p><p>###</p><p></p><p>Savina recognized the first of the two names. Prime Inquisitor Yudai had led the initial Inquest into the Hillside District, and had allowed the Alirrian heresy there to continue. </p><p></p><p>“I don’t know where Yudai-san personally comes down on the Affirmation,” Lord Ono said, as if reading Savina’s mind, “but he is a servant of the Inquisition and Kettenek. When it comes to ending an attack on the Inquisition, he’ll be helpful.” </p><p></p><p>“And . . . Mawu?” Savina asked. </p><p></p><p>“Mawu-san is exceedingly good at her job,” Lord Ono replied, cryptically.</p><p></p><p>“What <em>is</em> her job?” </p><p></p><p>“Torture,” said Lord Ono. </p><p></p><p>At that moment, the two Inquisitors arrived. As Lord Ono discussed the situation with them, Savina took in their appearances. Prime Inquisitor Yudai was in his late 40s or early 50s, with salt-and-pepper hair and a goatee. He seemed almost to blend into the environment, with a look as gray and nondescript as his robes. Chief Questioner Mawu was an older woman, short and rounded, with deep wrinkles, steel-gray hair, and intense, heavy-lidded eyes. From her shoulder hung a folded leather case, which she stroked in an apparently absent-minded gesture. </p><p></p><p>Yudai bowed. “I am Prime Inquisitor Yudai.” He turned to Savina. “Signora Savina-san, I understand we are indebted to you for two reasons: your work in Hillside and your role in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a-27.html#post5637819" target="_blank">last night’s drama</a>. I am sure you did not enjoy being groped by Aga Aki-san, but I assure you his embarrassment was enjoyed by many of us.” </p><p></p><p>Savina was surprised by his genial nature. She was not ready to warm up to him, but it was a start.</p><p></p><p>Mawu made no introduction, but continued to stare and stroke her leather case. Occasionally she whispered something inaudible, as if comforting an unseen pet. </p><p></p><p>Savina didn’t doubt that she was good at her job.</p><p></p><p>Lord Ono waved them off. “Go. Find the perpetrators. Do what you need to. Send a message that this will not be tolerated.”</p><p></p><p>###</p><p></p><p>Outside Lord Ono’s office, they hesitated. How does one stop an entire city from pursuing a bounty, and apprehend the attackers, all at once? Finally, Kormick voiced what was hiding in everyone’s mind: “We need to get more information from our prisoner. He passed out before we really got going.”</p><p></p><p>For the first time in their acquaintance, Mawu spoke. Her mouth smiled, but her voice was hard and even, like a spade dragged against rock. “Would you like me to ask him some questions?” </p><p></p><p>Twiggy shivered. It was a question to which every answer was wrong.</p><p></p><p>As they descended the stairs to where the Questor was being held, Yudai peppered them with questions about the Questors’ practice of pursuing bounties and rewards. </p><p></p><p>“We’re not trying to stop them from pursuing bounties generally, just from attacking the Inquisition,” Twiggy said. The Affirmation protected legal Ehktian activity, including the pursuit of appropriate bounties. After his errors in Hillside District, however, Twiggy didn't quite trust Yudai to understand that they weren’t here to prosecute Ehktians for being Ehktians. “We bear no ill will toward the Questors.”</p><p></p><p>“Ill will is irrelevant, Twiggy-san,” Yudai responded. “Sometimes we show mercy by cutting off hands and feet.”</p><p></p><p>“Hands and feet,” Mawu repeated, softly, stroking her leather case.</p><p></p><p>Twiggy wondered what they had gotten themselves into.</p><p></p><p>###</p><p></p><p></p><p>Tavi watched the cage as Kormick cranked it up into sight. Inside, the Questor was awake, and pacing the two-step diameter of the cage. </p><p></p><p>“What else do you want to know?” the Questor volunteered. Tavi wondered if Mawu’s assistance would be necessary, after all.</p><p></p><p>“Your name, who you were working with, how you met them,” he snapped. </p><p></p><p> “I’m Tavek. The boss man – he’s the one with glasses – we never got his name. The woman is Odelette. We met at the Questor chapter house. Boss man said we could share the bounty if we worked together.”</p><p></p><p>Kormick strode over. “That’s three names. There were four of you.”</p><p></p><p>Tavek crossed his arms. “I’ve been very cooperative,” he said, and shrugged.</p><p></p><p>“And you think you can stop now?” Mena stepped forward. “You put our friend in danger for a paycheck, and you lost. It’s over. You want a challenge? Try being honest.”</p><p></p><p>Tavek cocked his head defiantly. “I have been honest, I assure you.”</p><p></p><p>Kormick stood very close to Tavek. “Understand: you need to tell us everything you know.” He gestured at Yudai and Mawu. “I’m from the murder capital of the Eastern Continent and these people terrify <strong>me</strong>.” </p><p></p><p>Tavek made no move to speak. </p><p></p><p>Kormick waved to Mawu with the international gesture for “he’s all yours.” </p><p></p><p>Mawu unfolded her leather case. Inside there was a series of shiny metal instruments. Mawu purred at them like pets. She pulled out a few long needles, so thin they were difficult to see. “Tavek-san,” she said, “you had better come with us.” She unlocked the cage and turned the needles so they caught tiny glints of light. “My friends and I have some questions for you.” She walked slowly toward a nearby door and—eyes wide—Tavek followed. Nyoko, following Mawu’s nonverbal signals with a look of resignation, followed as well. Tavi recalled one of Nyoko’s early descriptions of the Adept’s responsibilities as Witnesses: “see everything, hear everything, be prepared to testify.” Tavi wasn’t sure he had realized, fully, what that entailed until this moment.</p><p></p><p>“She’ll find out what he knows,” said Yudai, after they’d left.</p><p></p><p>The minutes passed slowly as they waited. Eventually, Nyoko emerged, pale, from the side door. Mawu and Tavek followed immediately after her. “Such a dramatic response from such tiny instruments,” Nyoko whispered to Tavi, quiet enough that Tavi thought no one else could hear.</p><p></p><p>“It is a technique based on acupuncture,” Mawu answered, as she slid the needles back into their spaces in the leather case. Tavi tucked “super-sensitive hearing” away in his memory.</p><p></p><p>Nyoko reported the answers she had witnessed. The name of the fourth attacker was Ellisen, and he and Tavek were romantically involved. At sundown, they had planned to escape through tunnels in the North of the city and rendezvous with the other attackers at a place in the Ketkath known as the “silent waterfall.” Odelette had her own so-called “foolproof way of evading the law,” which Tavek did not know, but he knew that she had been staying at the Inn of Opulent Luxury. The man with glasses had not described an escape plan at all: he’d said he planned to “walk out the main gate of the city.”</p><p></p><p>“That is all he knows,” Nyoko said. “Truly.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ellinor, post: 5665923, member: 14561"] [b]24x01[/b] A breeze ruffled the torn jerkin of the beaten Questor at Tavi’s feet. The sun was rising. Staring at the Ehktian holy symbol hanging around the man’s neck, Tavi was sure he knew what was going on here . . . but he wasn’t ready to admit it, even to himself. “Should we take him back to the Inquisition for questioning?” Twiggy asked. “Or there’s an alley right there,” Savina replied, pointing. “Savina, my dear,” Kormick said, “are you suggesting we drag an unconscious man into an alley to interrogate him? How far you’ve come.” Tavi grabbed the man under the shoulders, pulled him into the alley, and threw a bucket of something – it was water, once – over the man’s face. “Wake up,” he barked. The man gurgled and opened his eyes. [i]Time for answers,[/i] Tavi thought. “Why did you attack us?” “For the bounty.” Tavi’s bad feeling about this instantly grew worse. “Who offered the bounty, and what are the terms?” “Some Hennan family. Di something. Offered fifty thousand gold for the capture of . . .” the man propped himself up on an elbow and looked around. His eyes finally settled on Rose. “Her. Capture her, bring her to the Temple of the Questors in Pol Henna, ask for [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a.html#post4689072"]‘Lira.’[/URL] ” He slumped back down and closed his eyes. “The notice said not to kill anyone. We didn’t kill anyone. —Did we?” The man passed out again. Tavi, his bad feeling confirmed, squelched the urge to kick him—this man wasn’t the real target of his anger. “Fifty thousand gold. Wind’s :):):):),” Mena swore and smacked the wall beside her, mirroring Tavi’s feelings perfectly. “So every Questor from here to Pol Henna is looking for us.” “Probably on the other side of Pol Henna, too,” Kormick pointed out. “Diego [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a-22.html#post5420480"]said our mother was under control[/URL]. He must have been wrong,” Tavi told Rose. “This bounty was set by your [b]mother[/b]?” Nyoko gasped. “What kind of sick woman would put a bounty on her own child?” Tavi had asked that question, or variations on it, many times himself. He knew the answer. “A desperate one, who thinks it is the best way to protect Rose. She’s wrong about that, but she doesn’t know it.” He reached in his mind for a memory in which his mother let anyone else make a decision about Rose. He couldn’t find one. “She probably never will.” In retrospect, Tavi couldn’t be surprised that their mother had taken such drastic steps. When she had herself left home at 16, trying to escape [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a-4.html#post4777017"]the marriage her father had arranged for her[/URL], her father had done the same thing to try to bring her back. Tavi had hoped she would avoid emulating her father’s heavy-handed abuse. He now saw that she was beyond caring about heavy-handedness. Tavi put his arm around Rose’s shoulder and squeezed. For a moment, all was quiet. But the sun was up now, and carts clattered in the distance. They had their answers. They bound the Questor and brought him to the Hall of the Inquisition to be dealt with. As they explained what had happened, Lord Ono sat behind his desk, his head in his hands. He pressed his thumbs against his temples before looking up. “Some Inquisitors are capable of going their [i]entire careers[/i] without being attacked. You’ve been attacked twice in three months.” “We understand how unusual this is, Lord Ono-san,” Tavi replied, as deferentially as possible. “It appears that our mother has set a reward for Rose’s return to Pol Henna. But we understand the importance of our work here in Cauldron and wish to continue it. We do not want to create any inconvenience for the Inquisition.” Lord Ono got a far-away look in his eyes. “I long for the days of mere ‘inconvenience.’” He paused. “But we must put a stop to this at once. An attack on Signora di Raprezzi-san is an attack on the Inquisition, and it is unacceptable.” Lord Ono rang a bell near his shoulder. In a few seconds, a runner appeared. “Fetch Yudai and Mawu,” Lord Ono said. ### Savina recognized the first of the two names. Prime Inquisitor Yudai had led the initial Inquest into the Hillside District, and had allowed the Alirrian heresy there to continue. “I don’t know where Yudai-san personally comes down on the Affirmation,” Lord Ono said, as if reading Savina’s mind, “but he is a servant of the Inquisition and Kettenek. When it comes to ending an attack on the Inquisition, he’ll be helpful.” “And . . . Mawu?” Savina asked. “Mawu-san is exceedingly good at her job,” Lord Ono replied, cryptically. “What [i]is[/i] her job?” “Torture,” said Lord Ono. At that moment, the two Inquisitors arrived. As Lord Ono discussed the situation with them, Savina took in their appearances. Prime Inquisitor Yudai was in his late 40s or early 50s, with salt-and-pepper hair and a goatee. He seemed almost to blend into the environment, with a look as gray and nondescript as his robes. Chief Questioner Mawu was an older woman, short and rounded, with deep wrinkles, steel-gray hair, and intense, heavy-lidded eyes. From her shoulder hung a folded leather case, which she stroked in an apparently absent-minded gesture. Yudai bowed. “I am Prime Inquisitor Yudai.” He turned to Savina. “Signora Savina-san, I understand we are indebted to you for two reasons: your work in Hillside and your role in [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/251423-rose-wind-saga-halmae-updated-august-18-2011-a-27.html#post5637819"]last night’s drama[/URL]. I am sure you did not enjoy being groped by Aga Aki-san, but I assure you his embarrassment was enjoyed by many of us.” Savina was surprised by his genial nature. She was not ready to warm up to him, but it was a start. Mawu made no introduction, but continued to stare and stroke her leather case. Occasionally she whispered something inaudible, as if comforting an unseen pet. Savina didn’t doubt that she was good at her job. Lord Ono waved them off. “Go. Find the perpetrators. Do what you need to. Send a message that this will not be tolerated.” ### Outside Lord Ono’s office, they hesitated. How does one stop an entire city from pursuing a bounty, and apprehend the attackers, all at once? Finally, Kormick voiced what was hiding in everyone’s mind: “We need to get more information from our prisoner. He passed out before we really got going.” For the first time in their acquaintance, Mawu spoke. Her mouth smiled, but her voice was hard and even, like a spade dragged against rock. “Would you like me to ask him some questions?” Twiggy shivered. It was a question to which every answer was wrong. As they descended the stairs to where the Questor was being held, Yudai peppered them with questions about the Questors’ practice of pursuing bounties and rewards. “We’re not trying to stop them from pursuing bounties generally, just from attacking the Inquisition,” Twiggy said. The Affirmation protected legal Ehktian activity, including the pursuit of appropriate bounties. After his errors in Hillside District, however, Twiggy didn't quite trust Yudai to understand that they weren’t here to prosecute Ehktians for being Ehktians. “We bear no ill will toward the Questors.” “Ill will is irrelevant, Twiggy-san,” Yudai responded. “Sometimes we show mercy by cutting off hands and feet.” “Hands and feet,” Mawu repeated, softly, stroking her leather case. Twiggy wondered what they had gotten themselves into. ### Tavi watched the cage as Kormick cranked it up into sight. Inside, the Questor was awake, and pacing the two-step diameter of the cage. “What else do you want to know?” the Questor volunteered. Tavi wondered if Mawu’s assistance would be necessary, after all. “Your name, who you were working with, how you met them,” he snapped. “I’m Tavek. The boss man – he’s the one with glasses – we never got his name. The woman is Odelette. We met at the Questor chapter house. Boss man said we could share the bounty if we worked together.” Kormick strode over. “That’s three names. There were four of you.” Tavek crossed his arms. “I’ve been very cooperative,” he said, and shrugged. “And you think you can stop now?” Mena stepped forward. “You put our friend in danger for a paycheck, and you lost. It’s over. You want a challenge? Try being honest.” Tavek cocked his head defiantly. “I have been honest, I assure you.” Kormick stood very close to Tavek. “Understand: you need to tell us everything you know.” He gestured at Yudai and Mawu. “I’m from the murder capital of the Eastern Continent and these people terrify [b]me[/b].” Tavek made no move to speak. Kormick waved to Mawu with the international gesture for “he’s all yours.” Mawu unfolded her leather case. Inside there was a series of shiny metal instruments. Mawu purred at them like pets. She pulled out a few long needles, so thin they were difficult to see. “Tavek-san,” she said, “you had better come with us.” She unlocked the cage and turned the needles so they caught tiny glints of light. “My friends and I have some questions for you.” She walked slowly toward a nearby door and—eyes wide—Tavek followed. Nyoko, following Mawu’s nonverbal signals with a look of resignation, followed as well. Tavi recalled one of Nyoko’s early descriptions of the Adept’s responsibilities as Witnesses: “see everything, hear everything, be prepared to testify.” Tavi wasn’t sure he had realized, fully, what that entailed until this moment. “She’ll find out what he knows,” said Yudai, after they’d left. The minutes passed slowly as they waited. Eventually, Nyoko emerged, pale, from the side door. Mawu and Tavek followed immediately after her. “Such a dramatic response from such tiny instruments,” Nyoko whispered to Tavi, quiet enough that Tavi thought no one else could hear. “It is a technique based on acupuncture,” Mawu answered, as she slid the needles back into their spaces in the leather case. Tavi tucked “super-sensitive hearing” away in his memory. Nyoko reported the answers she had witnessed. The name of the fourth attacker was Ellisen, and he and Tavek were romantically involved. At sundown, they had planned to escape through tunnels in the North of the city and rendezvous with the other attackers at a place in the Ketkath known as the “silent waterfall.” Odelette had her own so-called “foolproof way of evading the law,” which Tavek did not know, but he knew that she had been staying at the Inn of Opulent Luxury. The man with glasses had not described an escape plan at all: he’d said he planned to “walk out the main gate of the city.” “That is all he knows,” Nyoko said. “Truly.” [/QUOTE]
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