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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1518021" data-attributes="member: 4144">As Dr. Hewitt trudges along the road, he hears the unmistakable sound of a carriage clopping along the thoroughfare towards him.  As it nears him, it slows.  The carriage is driven by a largish man of a shabby genteel appearance.  He indicates the doctor's bag.  "Are you a doctor, then?  My name is Gervase.  I come from Pellgraine Manor, we've some things we've found in the house that should want the opinions of a medical man.  Will you come with me?"  He turns and holds the carriage door open.  After Dr. Hewitt climbs in, Gervase turns the carriage back around and drives towards the manor.  It passes along a road flanked by Romanesque statuary, under a wrought-iron arch, and eventually stops in front of a large but modest house.  Gervase holds the doctor's door open, and jogs up to the door of the house, letting himself in with a key he has in his pocket.  He beckons the doctor to follow him. *****There is a fumbling sound as of keys at the locked front door, and in a moment the servant Gervase appears, a youngish man with an inquisitive look on his face in tow.  "I've got the doctor," he says, indicating the young man behind him.*****"Thank you, sir," Rachel says as she takes the brandy.  "The thing I saw...as I said, it was only a few inches long, about the same size and shape as a cigar, but it moved all snaky-like, just like it was going for a swim.  It had a little thing like a star on the front of it, maybe that was its mouth.  It had all sorts of little feathery feelers near its mouth, just like a moth."</blockquote>

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