A Tangle of Traitors
9th of November 2006 A.D.
Mind racing from one option to the other, what do do about DetectiveMurphy, the body, Lara... and the fact that your mother is going to start calling soon you settle on: "Do you wan me to drop you off at Helen's?" Seeing her bemused expression in the mirror you explain. "Helen Beckitt? She has good wards I helped with them."
A shake of her head almost dislodges a hair-pin. "I live with my family above the clinic. We have... a strong threshold, strengthened as well." She pulls helplessly at the ruined collar of her labcoat. "I can't leave you out here to deal with
that."
If you can't even call it a body you really should, you think with sympathy not any kind of accusation. "I've dealt with the lieutenant before and with this kind of thing..." Catching yourself you add quickly: "Times when the law of the land hints straight on into the the world behind the curtain."
Don't want her to think I make a habit of driving around with bodies in my trunk.
Thankfully it does not seem she does. Your arguments are straightforward reasonable and all the more persuasive for agreeing with what she wants right now, a way out of the car and back to the comfort of familiar things.
After dropping her off in front of a turn of the century redbrick building with a slightly crooked sign above the door, but light still burning clear in the windows you repeat the warning you had sent off to the rest of Cauldron and are about to bid goodbye when Will, not Clippy chines in:
"Letters relevant to investigation, superfluous to ally designated Eve Jackson. Obtain?"
"Could you get me those letters, I might be able to use them to track the sender."
She shakes her head. Thought about that. "They are all magazine clippings and I think whoever's behind this wore gloves."
"I can still use them." As one might expect she looks impressed and a little daunted, tracking is notoriously difficult using things of little contact and less emotional import. Good thing for her peace of mind she does not know just
how good you are.
After about ten minutes of looking she comes out of the house a curly haired boy, five or six wearing Lilo and Stitch PJs practically clinging to her legs. Kids know when you're scared, you remember that much crystal clear from those times when mom would stay up to three, four o'clock in the morning waiting for a phone call from dad. Sometimes you would sneak up to the door, with a glass of water in hand pretending that was why you were up in case she noticed you. You'd figured out that dad did something more dangerous than carpentry when he was out of town years before the word 'denarius' was in your vocabulary. Hopefully little Liam, as he introduces himself, won't have to.
"Bye!" you wave even as your eyes fix on the torn labcoat and your mind pressed the question into the world all the harder:
What are the identities of everyone involved in the attack of this coat's owner?
Nine names are spit out by the gears of some cosmic mechanism to which for some reason you have the secret key. One of those names is not new, Madrigal Raith, the same one who wanted Sarah Grene silenced, but of the rest Athanasius Skavis stands out as one of the triad of major White Court Houses.
That said you do not know how deep this gets until you feed the information to your friends on the digital side, using not just the internet, but the files you had stolen off Lara's agent at the police auction. Athanasius Skavis is heir presumptive to House Skavis
. Of the remaining seven five were identified as associates of House Skavis, either vampire or ghoul.
As you pull up behind the Seven Eleven, the parking lot all but deserted other than Murphy in her personal car, you are happy to see you wonder what it's safe to tell her about the whole thing.
What do you tell Murphy?
[] Only talk about the attack and the body, this risks her digging deeper on her own, but if Lara moves fast she might be able to handle everything before the detective has any leads worth a damn
[] Mention that you have a connection to the highest levels of the White Court and your plan to reach out to Lara so that she can deal with the rogue elements
[] Write in
OOC: I tried to take some of the stuff from the runner up vote, like asking the question with the labcoat as focus since it only costs a mote of essence and getting the letters in case you want to use more, but I did not want to push on to talking to Murphy since that part certainly was not voted in. 
