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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1835083" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>Don Cullon sends a message to Taran and the others. He has instructed the councillors to come to the countess’ palace this afternoon where the murderer will be revealed. His spies tell him that the councillors have called an emergency meeting in the town hall chambers. Now it is over to the party.</p><p></p><p>Anne-Marie and Taran scale the outside of the town hall managing the difficult climb up the side of the dome and into the little cupola at the top. Carefully they sneak in and peer over the balcony. Forty feet below them is a circle of tables with the twenty councillors talking with one another in an animated fashion. Then one of them holds his hands up for silence and stillness falls across the room. Then he speaks in a clear, ringing tone.</p><p></p><p>“We have visitors with unguarded thoughts. Anne-Marie, won’t you and your friend kindly join us? Now?”</p><p></p><p>Anne-Marie and Taran shrug – they had been silent, nobody could have heard them… but they are spotted. Taran lets a coil of rope fall down, Anne-Marie merely jumps down lightly, landing in a crouch and then recovering herself.</p><p></p><p>“You know me. I’ve got to warn you – there are impostors in your midst! Changelings or worse, possibly metamorphs!”</p><p></p><p>“Oh?” says the leader of the council “do you have evidence for this assertion?”</p><p></p><p>“My own eyes” she asserts “Councillor Jonn ran from the ball were Issel was murdered. I chased him and found myself fighting a human with claws. It was either him or his footman, but it seems that the circle of councillors is compromised”</p><p></p><p>“My dear Anne-Marie, may I call you that? I don’t think our order has been compromised. Oh no, not compromised at all…”</p><p></p><p>Around the circle of tables all of the councillors stand up, all of their outlines blur, their faces stretch into different shapes and their hands elongate into ferocious claws</p><p></p><p>“the Order of Glass is still, fully, intact my dear…”</p><p></p><p>Taran is mentally running through his options – he knows that Trajan, M’ir and Tania are outside the front doors, but it will take them precious seconds to get here – and he’s not the healthiest guy in the world himself. Perhaps if he can buy a few seconds?</p><p></p><p>“Sir, may I ask you one question first? Why did you murder Count Issel?”</p><p></p><p>The councillor changes his posture slightly</p><p></p><p>“Why do you ask me?” he says coldly “Why should I murder one of my brothers in this foul manner?”</p><p></p><p>Blank stares from Taran and Anne-Marie to the order of glass and back again.</p><p></p><p>“So Jonne wasn’t a murderer running from the scene” says Anne-Marie</p><p></p><p>“hardly” another councillor replies, who’s features shift and change until he is Councillor Jonne. “I was terrified that whatever force had struck down brother Issel would be coming after me too. I don’t know what happened but I heard his mental scream along with his vocal one as his whole body catastrophically lost its cohesiveness”</p><p></p><p>“It was in the glass” Taran says. “It was in the drinking glass he was using. Something had been forged into it to kill him”</p><p></p><p>One of the councillors whispers something. Another says it louder. “it is Gideon. We had escaped his plans but now he attempts to kill us all”</p><p></p><p>Taran snaps his fingers. “Gideon, the foundry owner. I met him near the tannery. Big, obnoxious man yet with an aura of power around him”.</p><p></p><p>“That is right. He owns the foundry and all the men there. He is a powerful telepath. It was he who took my family and turned us into the Order of Glass, opened our minds to the power to accentuate our mutable form. He wanted us to infiltrate and replace the councillors of Bridlerest – which we did. They are all dead now I’m afraid. But they deserved it. They were cruel and venal, thinking only of themselves and not the people they ruled or the families that loved them. They were so inefficient. The town runs more efficiently under us, their families receive love once more.”</p><p></p><p>“We regret what happened then, the last few months have changed us. We have all embraced the tenets of law and goodness, turned from our old ways. And this has angered Gideon, angered him mightily. We do not respond to his calls and he has threatened us. He made us, and now he hates us, and he will kill us”.</p><p></p><p>“Not if we get the bastard first. Let’s call in our friends and make plans”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1835083, member: 114"] Don Cullon sends a message to Taran and the others. He has instructed the councillors to come to the countess’ palace this afternoon where the murderer will be revealed. His spies tell him that the councillors have called an emergency meeting in the town hall chambers. Now it is over to the party. Anne-Marie and Taran scale the outside of the town hall managing the difficult climb up the side of the dome and into the little cupola at the top. Carefully they sneak in and peer over the balcony. Forty feet below them is a circle of tables with the twenty councillors talking with one another in an animated fashion. Then one of them holds his hands up for silence and stillness falls across the room. Then he speaks in a clear, ringing tone. “We have visitors with unguarded thoughts. Anne-Marie, won’t you and your friend kindly join us? Now?” Anne-Marie and Taran shrug – they had been silent, nobody could have heard them… but they are spotted. Taran lets a coil of rope fall down, Anne-Marie merely jumps down lightly, landing in a crouch and then recovering herself. “You know me. I’ve got to warn you – there are impostors in your midst! Changelings or worse, possibly metamorphs!” “Oh?” says the leader of the council “do you have evidence for this assertion?” “My own eyes” she asserts “Councillor Jonn ran from the ball were Issel was murdered. I chased him and found myself fighting a human with claws. It was either him or his footman, but it seems that the circle of councillors is compromised” “My dear Anne-Marie, may I call you that? I don’t think our order has been compromised. Oh no, not compromised at all…” Around the circle of tables all of the councillors stand up, all of their outlines blur, their faces stretch into different shapes and their hands elongate into ferocious claws “the Order of Glass is still, fully, intact my dear…” Taran is mentally running through his options – he knows that Trajan, M’ir and Tania are outside the front doors, but it will take them precious seconds to get here – and he’s not the healthiest guy in the world himself. Perhaps if he can buy a few seconds? “Sir, may I ask you one question first? Why did you murder Count Issel?” The councillor changes his posture slightly “Why do you ask me?” he says coldly “Why should I murder one of my brothers in this foul manner?” Blank stares from Taran and Anne-Marie to the order of glass and back again. “So Jonne wasn’t a murderer running from the scene” says Anne-Marie “hardly” another councillor replies, who’s features shift and change until he is Councillor Jonne. “I was terrified that whatever force had struck down brother Issel would be coming after me too. I don’t know what happened but I heard his mental scream along with his vocal one as his whole body catastrophically lost its cohesiveness” “It was in the glass” Taran says. “It was in the drinking glass he was using. Something had been forged into it to kill him” One of the councillors whispers something. Another says it louder. “it is Gideon. We had escaped his plans but now he attempts to kill us all” Taran snaps his fingers. “Gideon, the foundry owner. I met him near the tannery. Big, obnoxious man yet with an aura of power around him”. “That is right. He owns the foundry and all the men there. He is a powerful telepath. It was he who took my family and turned us into the Order of Glass, opened our minds to the power to accentuate our mutable form. He wanted us to infiltrate and replace the councillors of Bridlerest – which we did. They are all dead now I’m afraid. But they deserved it. They were cruel and venal, thinking only of themselves and not the people they ruled or the families that loved them. They were so inefficient. The town runs more efficiently under us, their families receive love once more.” “We regret what happened then, the last few months have changed us. We have all embraced the tenets of law and goodness, turned from our old ways. And this has angered Gideon, angered him mightily. We do not respond to his calls and he has threatened us. He made us, and now he hates us, and he will kill us”. “Not if we get the bastard first. Let’s call in our friends and make plans” [/QUOTE]
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