"In connection with Echavarria's cult?"

He is so torn on whether or not to be happy this line of inquiry is happening.

"He was part of Echavarria's inner circle. Trammel, Ayers, and Savitree."

"Oh, man. Know anything else about him?"

He shudders. "He was awful. The one good thing about-- what happened-- is that he got devoured by Gol-Goroth. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person."

" - uh. Well, uh, hate to break it to you, but he's alive, and we think he has one of our associates captive."

"What."

"Did you see him get eaten?"

"No! I just assumed it got everyone except me!"

"Well, evidence suggests it did not."

"You summon an old god out of myth and it turns out to exist and also to have-- entirely too many mouths-- and it eats all of my friends and somehow it does not manage to eat Samson Trammel."

Oswald is maybe reconsidering whether he wants to negotiate with Trammel right off the bat.

Mordred bites down hard on his tongue.

Lev has found an opinion. The opinion is that SAMSON SHOULD GET EATEN.

"What all did-- what--" He's whispering, half to no one, pleading with some higher power. "What is going to happen to my sister."

"Your sister?"

"Oswald's sister is being held by him right now. We're pretty sure, anyway."

"I'm sorry."

"She went to the man who took us in and asked some foolish questions expecting to maybe get punished if she wasn't careful enough and has been missing for nearly three days now--"

Lev looks absolutely horrified. "Samson Trammel took you in?"

Oh No.

He Doesn't Know What Is About To Happen But He Does Not Predict That It Will Be Good.

"After our parents died -- eight years ago now -- I knew he was, he was, that he, but I didn't -- it wasn't safe but I thought there was some kind of limit--"

Lev is shaking his head. "Not... really."

"Why are we still in Savannah." There were rational arguments for this but he is not having thoughts so much right now.

"All right, all right. We'll see if Frank is airworthy. Let's head out." She is going to some effort not to point out that she wanted to confront him immediately and everyone else wanted her to be cautious. Not helpful, right now.