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Horace

"Imagine finding?" Horace frowned, clicking his tongue piercing against his teeth as he thought. "Well, I kept thinking about how, when he took my fingerprint, the court kind of shuddered and he had a weird grin. I couldn't figure out how that connected." He'd tried his best to empty his head, focus only on what had her done next.

"He knew, he was talking to the other Ezra - I didn't even know there were two at the time, or three... because the Burning Man is..." Horace frowned. "He managed to side-step the noble geas, when he took my fingerprint."

Horace

"I mean, I asked him if what he was doing would affect her - he's.... he's the Burning Man isn't Ezra the noble and that's why." Horace looked vaguely shocked. The noble geas wouldn't work on non-nobles, of ******** course.

"He said-" Horace felt the itch in his skin, the lingering burn. "He came for Ezra and told him 'entrust to me your soul and all your darkness will be loved and your pain made sacrament; when fire drowns all else you will stand ascendant, my son, my heir.'" Not for the first time, he was glad he had an excellent memory. (Sometimes, it was not a blessing.)

"Can we separate them further? Sorry, I know this isn't about the scrying - though he saw me scrying him, but-"

Horace


Horace blinked, looking back up at Sonny. She probably wasn't the right person, this wasn't the right space for theories. He filed it away for later. Thinking back, he opened his mouth, parroting the burning man. "This will not affect the dissembling and recreation of the nobles' Charter, and it won't affect Melany Dubhslaine, the host of the Spinel Lady."

After a moment, he sighed. "I thought the geas would have worked, since it came from the, uh, universe he came over from."

Leila

"Silk told us that everyone who'd had a print taken would die if we didn't resolve things in time," she explained. "I was worried about this world's Ezra, too."


Eve

"I was trying to make sense of what the Burning Man was doing. At the time I wasn't concerned with his motivation or reasoning... I just wanted to stop him."