Judge arrives at the old petitioners’ hospice with Logan and Tomoka, the transfer ledger and altered records secured beneath his robes. Corren remains under Voss’s custody at The Final Edict, with the two guards.
The hospice corridor smells of bitterroot, lamp oil, and damp stone. At its end, a sealed door hangs crooked in its frame, its wax broken and replaced.
Logan Scarborough
The room was opened recently. Dust is disturbed along the threshold, and the same M.T. mark appears beside the replacement seal.
Tomoka raises her guild ledger beneath the wavering lanternlight. The abbreviated mark matches the hospice deliveries, the final purchase, and Merek Thane’s recorded hand.
Tomoka
No lawful clerk would leave the seal like this. Someone entered and searched the room in a hurry.
Judge
The seal was broken after the last recorded delivery.
From behind the sealed door comes a faint rasp, followed by a careful shift of weight against wood. Logan freezes, while Tomoka’s tail coils tightly behind her.
Logan Scarborough
Someone is inside. The movement is deliberate, and the room may still contain the witness or whoever guarded it.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure the hidden witness’s survival
✓ Quest Accepted
Identify who entered the hospice room