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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3375452" data-attributes="member: 3448">The discussion degenerated into ribald humor until Kit suddenly stopped.  “Another one of the Harlequins has been spotted in Pottersflat and is being followed.  I just got a message from one of my people, who says they may need back-up.”  She looked around the room and confirmed that there was no one there whispering to her.  “I’m going to try to get more information.”  She closed her eyes momentarily and activated Detect Thoughts.  The only minds that were present were the ones she knew of-- Alistair, Mahler, and some guards outside the chamber.  But there was an odd lingering set of thoughts surrounding part of her fan, apparently from some hidden function.  Kit thought for a moment and then opened a mindlink to the fan itself.Kit’s body stiffened suddenly as her mind went through the fan and away from her physical surroundings.  She stared out through eyes not her own, on a clean but humble street.  A furtive figure darted quickly from shadow to shadow, and she followed, carried along by the person whose eyes she was borrowing.The voice that Kit had heard whispering to her moments earlier spoke again.  “Lady, you are with me again…”  A small hint of confusion entered the voice.  “You feel different.  It has been so long since you have spoken to me.”Kit thought back, <<Do you have backup?>>“There are others following.”<<Good.  These Harlequins are dangerous.  I want him taken alive and brought back to the palace.>>“Does the lady wish to know where he’s going?”<<Yes, please.>>“We will follow for now, then.”<<Good, follow, report, and then capture him and bring him in.>>Kit sensed a sort of fawning attitude from the man as he replied.  “I will catch him, lady, you’ll see.”<<Remember, be careful, and bring him in alive.>>“We will do our best, lady.  Always for the Throne, and always for you.”Kit released the mindlink and snapped back to her own body in the palace.  Alistair was holding her, preventing her from collapsing to the ground.  Her friends looked at her with concern as she readjusted to her surroundings and looked around.“Are you alright?  What happened?”  asked Alistair.“I’m fine,” she stammered.  “Just a little surprised.  When I reached out to the fan with my mind, I was in the mind of one of my people.  The experience was interesting… and useful.”  She nodded a little, calming down and thinking more carefully.  “I’ll have to have the Farsensor check out the fan more.  It clearly has additional powers we did not know about.”</blockquote>

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