Sight Beyond Reckoning
31th of October 2006 A.D.
As the note burns you look into the fire's depths and ask: "Who are the people among the Winter Fey who the enemy of which this note speaks of has subverted." You look through it and see the void between the blades of light: Not people, not named, not-will, not-right, not-BEIMG. The thing is writ upon the face of the world by the prey it devours, an emptiness illuminated by pyre's flame, plague parasite and pestilence, known by the curses of its foes:
The Enemy/Nemesis.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 10/12
Pain thrums in your temples, like the mother of all hangovers without the fun part as you are left with the vague sense of shapes moving in the dark, a round peg being shoved in a square hole, a multidimensional object squeezed into three by mechanisms as old as time, by
Necessity.
Water lies cold upon your hands, moving with purpose, upon your face whispering secrets lost to the living and the dead: Aodh son of Luchtaine, who carved Shield and Haft, now crooked counsel crooked craft, Cathair First of the Rawheads, Meave, Mab's daughter, night-poisoned child of barren land and lightless hearth.
Regained 2 Essence -> Now at 12/12
"Some things, may be unavoidable Lydia." How you manage to keep your voice level after what you had just found out you're not sure. Maybe you're getting used to this and ain't that a terrifying realization all on its own? Running water again over your hands and into the t-shirt you are wearing under the mail is fresh comfort, the whispers of the ocean encouragement, soft but all encompassing. "I don't think our mutual acquaintance would be asking for help unless she really needs it..." And gosh darn does she need it. Is there a cure for being infected with sapient Outsider Plagues?
Alas on that one Usum is as clueless as you are.
As you reach for the door you stop dead, thinking. If Lara is on the right side of this, which she seems to be, then giving her the names, at least
two of the names would help deal with a part of the security breach without revealing to Mab that you can pull even these secrets from scribbled notes and half guessed patterns. Of course you would be revealing it to the vampire regent.
So whose more trustworthy, the queen of the wicked faeries or the soul sucking vamp? It's almost enough to make you giggle thinking of them like that, though you know it would come out shaky, nervous
Essence twists into patterns familiar as breathing, as opening your eyes. shadows deepen into welcoming dark and colors ripple with texture that had before been hidden. Lydia is wrapped as if in the moonlight shroud of her own anima, though you know that you alone can see her. That part of your mind that is ever asking questions, even when still reeling from the last answer you had gotten wonders how precisely your friend is 'of the dark', the term is as slippery as an eel for all you have an instinct grasp of who should be in it and who not, the same who are inclined to bow and give obeisance.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 11/12
Lost 1 Willpower -> Now at 8/9
"That they may not escape you Majesty Most Puissant," the demon in your mind points out, seemingly unshaken by the revelations of the last few minutes. Of course he isn't, he thinks you are going to take over the world like some kind of Bond Villain.
Alas before you can think of a retort you notice a ripple in the air, vaguely humanoid in shape hanging right above Lara, motionless as a spider, a spy under a veil.
What do you do?
[] Fix your gaze on it to try to figure out what it is (In addition to the Perception+Occult roll of the Charm Molly will roll Manipulation+Subterfuge opposing the Watcher's Perception+Alertness in order not to be caught looking)
[] You've seen it, it has not seen you, it is clearly a spy, attack
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OOC: Well you guys voted to turn on the esoteric charm sight that just works as a passive so here you are... Creature of Darkness spying on you, now you need to decide what to do about it. 
