"Got it, go say hi to the local knight order. Or religious order. Or paladin* order. Or mercenary group? Do we know if they're likely to be happy or unhappy to see us?"

*Literally "religious knight".

"Technically a knight order under the king, but only technically? Something like that. We couldn't get anyone to tell us where to find their local headquarters, annoyingly enough, but Bys has a plan that involves visiting libraries in disguise. For reasons which I'm not sure I followed, actually? I kinda jumped on learning the disguise spell and forgot to ask."

"...General paranoia, I don't know. I just have a hunch about it. Maybe it's not necessary."

"I'm not saying don't trust your instincts, but don't follow them too deep into silly things either?"

Abyssia shrugs.

"Knightly orders tend to have fortresses- Headquarters specifically designed as a fortification all to their own, somewhere defensible. And if the place were right here and open to visitors I expect you would have heard. So, probably not in the city."

"Well, is there something special about the libraries?" Ame asks Bys. "You've been fine undisguised everywhere else we've gone. Are the whispers warning you about this?"

"...No," she bushes dark blue, "I'm just - this whole thing is risky and important and- It feels so immediate and real. I'm on edge."

Ame goes over to pull Bys into a hug.

"Not unreasonable to be. But, and I know this is unintuitive coming from me, but... we're legit now. We did that whole thing with Isodore and we aren't currently pretending to be anything we're not and we're leveled enough to get at least basic respect... So maybe the four of us just go at this straightforwardly as an Obvious Adventuring Party and see how far that gets us."

"...Okay, I get it. Yeah, makes sense."

"I can whip something up that will keep the stink of necromancy away. It's getting steadily better with regular good touches, anyway." She snickers a bit. "A sort of shroud. It's all just moving the Winds around. You'd have to keep tapping him with it every few minutes and it wouldn't hold up to intense scrutiny though. Unless I spent a couple weeks and some expensive stuff on it."

"Still good to have. While you work on that, Bys and I'll go look for libraries? Maybe find a map that shows where the Silver Spears are based."