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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3048690" data-attributes="member: 3448">By the time Kit finished her statement, Dame Brionna had already drawn her sword and moved towards the door to the next room.  “Please stay here, your grace… this should only take a few minutes.”  Kit followed quickly in Dame Brionna’s wake and the two of them swept into the next room.  The room was empty except for a servant cleaning the wall.  Dame Brionna only remembered the servant vaguely, but she was plain enough to have been assigned to the Archduke’s chambers.  Kit could even remember her name, Aurelia.The servant looked up from her work scrubbing the floor, and leaned back from Dame Brionna’s brandished sword.  “Is everything well, m’lady?  Nothing has happened, has it?”“Has anyone else been in this room recently, Aurelia?” asked Kit.“No, m’lady, just me.”Dame Brionna lifted a sun disc in her off-hand and concentrated.  As the power of Glor’diadel flowed through her, she sensed an unusual presence of evil with Aurelia.  Aurelia herself was not evil, but there was evil on her, and not radiating from any object, either.  The paladin concentrated and became positive:  something was riding Aurelia, not quite possessing her, but traveling with her.“Aurelia, have you ever been to Brightspan? Or Caligshire?”“I’ve never been, m’lady, but my great-aunt grew up in Brightspan.  Said the city was lovely in the setting sun.”  Puzzlement covered Aurelia’s face at the question.Dame Brionna nodded to herself, seeing a pattern with Lady Zenia.  “Are you with child?”Aurelia blushed at the sudden change in topic.  “We don’t know… it’s too early to be sure, but I hope so.  Can you tell?”Kit looked sharply at Dame Brionna, realizing what she must have detected.  Dame Brionna continued, “Are you married?”“Yes, m’lady.  To Trevor, one of the Archducal Guards, m’lady.”  A note of pride came into her voice at that.Dame Brionna stuck her head into the hall.  “Send for Trevor.  I need to speak with him.  And double the guards on the Archduke’s chambers.”  Trevar was a good lad.  A commoner member of the Guard, Dame Brionna thought of him as bright enough, but he had no prospects for further advancement without a drop of noble blood in his veins.Kit spoke in a soothing voice, seeing the alarm on Aurelia’s face.  “You needn’t worry.  Neither you nor Trevor has done anything wrong.”  She hoped she was telling the truth.  “We just need to ask a few more questions of each of you.  Tell me about your great-aunt, from Brightspan.  Has she done anything unusual lately?”“Not more than normal, m’lady.  She’s always done silly things, though.”“What sorts of silly things?”“She goes to seances, m’lady.  Always trying to talk to my great-uncle, though he’s been dead for years.  And she always wants me to go with her.”“And have you gone to these seances, Aurelia?”  Dame Brionna made the question sound like an accusation, and Kit saw the calm that she had been encouraging slip away.“Once or twice, m’lady.  There’s nothing much to them, and she was bugging me so.  I just wanted to make my great-aunt happy, m’lady…”Kit intervened.  “That’s fine, Aurelia.  I think we should send for Lady Constance-- if you sensed something, it’s probably a matter for her to deal with.”“And a priest who can dispel evil, to force whatever it is to stop riding her.”  Dame Brionna quickly sent one of the guards to summon Lady Constance and a powerful cleric, as well as giving orders that a priest and a guard were to locate Aurelia’s great-aunt in the Harrows Hill neighborhood and take her to the Cathedral.</blockquote>

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