Diplomatic Immunity: Funeral Procession

[unleashed]

Tiberius Lucius Magnus, Male Praetor Warmage

“Yes, it’s a definite possibility, considering our friend here has no defensive wounds, much like Ammon. It’s also quite possible that his hand was placed on the hilt and just closed around it, as there’s not much of a grip there. Well, let’s go find some stablehands, so we can continue our questioning.”

*With that, Tiberius heads outside, looking for stablehands outside the building. If none can be found, they’ll go to the servant’s quarters as the guard suggested.*

 

[Rystil Arden]

*They find a female stablehand outside, brushing one of the horses and whispering to it.*

 

[unleashed]

Tiberius Lucius Magnus, Male Praetor Warmage

*Approaching slowly so he doesn’t startle the horse, Tiberius moves into the stablehand’s eyeline.*

“Sorry for the interruption miss. Did you know Aesthus well, as we have a questions about what happened to him?”

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Hmmm, wha? Oh, hello. I'm sorry. Aesthus? Oh, I didn't know him very well, no. Didn't he die or something?"

 

[Erekose13]

"We are afraid so, has the word spread already? What of his death has reached your ears, if you don't mind our asking." asks Mythweaver.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't know. I don't think they told us, or I don't remember. I wasn't paying attention, though. I thought I smelled something different than the usual stable smell when I was going to the stables, dried blood and decay," she admits.

 

[Erekose13]

"You have a good sense of smell to pick up on it. You mention someone who might have informed you of Aesthus' passing. Who runs the stables and are they nearby?" replies Mythweaver.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Runs the stables? I don't know. There's lots of people who work there with the horses, I guess. You mean like does the accounting for the stable? Maybe the seneschal? I'm not sure what that is, but it's a long word, so it's probably an important job or something, and he comes down and does something called 'audit' sometimes, but it doesn't look like anything happens like a spell or nothing."

 

[Erekose13]

"I'm sorry no, I didn't mean the seneschal, just the person who directs you and Aesthus and the other stable hands in the care of the horses and the grounds." replies Mythweaver.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Oh, that. That's usually just a senior stableboy who directs and stuff. I've been working here a while, so sometimes it's me. I reckon some stables would have a stablemaster position or something, but they don't have much management and paper-pushing here, probably on account of the whole floating asteroid thing."