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Cassandra's shoulders tightened at the words that Silk spoke, her gaze crossing the room to Jeremiah with a frown. Worry was worn obviously on her face.

Tiny Duckling wasn't ready to try and imprint on a new parental figure.

Shun cursed under his breath. He knew he shouldn't have trusted Ezra. That whole magical swearing thing had to have been bullshit. He should have known then, but he was a bit preoccupied at the time Ezra had approached him. Though, what was possibly worse news was there was at least one principal attached to this magical time bomb.

"He is not who you think he is, anymore, then. I only saw the Burning Man in him," he grunted before looking around, "Does anyone here have any sort of scrying or location abilities?"

Technically any of them could attempt it while they were in Other Ashdown, but those who had an innate ability for it would still probably do better, he figured. He also looked to the wargs in particular.

"Three," Leila said, meaning to correct America. "There's three, or there were when I last saw him. The Burning Man over the noble Ezra, over this world's Ezra." She didn't know if that made a difference, but mentioned it nonetheless. "I might be able to tell someone where to go..."

Eve looked between Silk, and Shun, and the rest of group. "We've done a scrying spell recently. If we can get an item made or owned by either Ezra, it should be relatively simple to do another."

Preacher looked at Chester and grimaced, holding up her hand. Her thumbprint was clearly gone, although a large scar bisected the pad of her finger. "Altering tha print doesn't work," she said shortly. "I dunno why, but I had ta run or he'da killed me. Bonfires are hot."

She sighed and looked at Leila. A scrying spell? "Well, if anyone needs a bit o' sigil-work ta find 'im, I'm right here. I ain't keen on more time in the hospital, but let's go ******** up a burnin' bush."

"Leaving only me-" The professor said in an odd tone.

It was the only words he could say, verbatim, of what Ezra had said to him following his press of thumb to paper. Even the attempt to give context made Algernon's hand began to painfully tingle and he stopped, shaking his head and rubbing the offending hand against his other.

Whatever person or thing had made them do it, perhaps that was it's intention all along. Kill them all and leave only it behind. It certainly fit now with what Silk was saying. It echoed what Ezra had told him.. just twisted.

As if being guilted into consenting something he didn't fully understand wasn't bad enough, the slap in the face of 'oh, hey, you're on the fast track to dying' added some hardcore insult to Jamie's injury. What he really needed right now was something heavy to throw, something to blow off steam, but his only options within reach were Shiloh and Kaleb and he sure didn't plan on tossing either of them.

"I feel kinda like throwing up," Jamie admitted to Kaleb, his expression a mixture of angry and sad and awkward as he held too tight to Shiloh's hand.

Jeremiah looked to Cass, his face inscrutable. After all, their extensive testing- they had learned just what one could do with a little bit of consent. What one could do with so much? Still, there was little time to dally. Mostly because the idea of being torn apart by his own magic - or watch Algie or anyone else do the same - was something he wanted to avoid at all costs.

"I actually do have something that, at one point, belonged to Lord Ezra before he passed it to me," he responded, glancing towards Temperance, "but I would also recommend checking his domain as well. July and September may know where he is or give insight. Rabbit or I would be able to go within." His hand was held up, the bone ring on his finger visible on the pinky of his right hand. It was unnerving on sight.

"I would assume, of course, that he's likely planning something with that much power gained." A pause, Jeremiah looking to Silk. "Would we be able to look for something like that within the Court? Track it?" Such a thing as the document that contained their thumbprints would have a massive amount of power. "Or would it be hidden due to the nature of the Court?"

"That could work. I would need to see evidence of him having been somewhere first in order to try and analyze it," Shun nodded to Leila. He hadn't really had a chance to try it out yet... aside from the one time that Kaji had managed to escape her cage recently. He wasn't fully certain of his limitations.

A few of the others had additional ideas on how they could reach Ezra, but there was still one other thing that was important. He turned back to Silk.

"Do you know what needs to be done once we are able to apprehend him? For that matter, do you have any suggestions on just how we should go about bringing him in?"

Because apparently the Burning Man had a s**t ton of magical power on hand. They were going to need to handle him carefully, even if they did outnumber him.