Marra folds the ledger around its blue-stained marks and proposes the disused courier waystation before dawn. Delate secures the page beneath her coat while Zena remains armed and alert.
Marra Vey
The index will lead us to a cellar beneath the old station. If the Compact updated its household mark, someone may still be using that place.
No Legion officers join them. Quartermaster Hask, Captain Rell, and Iven remain elsewhere, while Zena, Delate, and Marra leave the apartment together beneath the thinning rain.
Delate
I will carry the ledger. If its powder reacts again, I want to see it before anyone touches the page.
Marra guides them through rain-dark streets, avoiding the market lamps and patrol routes. Her bronze crown token stays hidden, and each turn takes them farther from familiar homes.
The waystation stands shuttered beside an abandoned stable. Beneath its warped floor, Marra finds a sealed cellar door and presses three fingers to a faded courier mark.
Marra Vey
These marks are not mine. Several couriers came recently, and one passed through after I reached your apartment.
✓ Quest Accepted
Expose who is using the waystation to surveil the household
“*I inspect the sealed cellar door and the faded courier mark to see if I cant trace where they went*”
SUCCESS (Superb Perception, rolled +1)
Zena crouches beside the sealed cellar door, studying the warped boards, iron hinges, and faded courier mark without touching them. Damp ash gathers along the threshold.
Zena
The mark was refreshed recently, but the door has not been opened from this side.
Her keen senses catch fine scratches around the lock and a thread of cold air beneath the sill. The ash trails inward, then disappears beside the foundation stones.
Marra Vey
They entered through here, but they did not leave by the door. The trail bends toward the old stable.
Zena follows the broken trace beneath the stable wall and finds three shallow heel marks, a snapped sealing cord, and pale salt dust leading toward a concealed drainage culvert.
Delate
The salt is the same binding compound as before. Whoever passed through carried a sealed parcel, and they went north beneath the road.
Marra Vey
That culvert joins the courier path to Blackfen. They left recently, and the mark confirms they were carrying Compact orders.