"...Not the acknowledged ones."

"Oh. Okay."

That's new.

"...Unacknowledged ones?"

"At least one. Apparently."

Baurus staggers over. "The Emperor... dead. We've failed." He pauses, looks at Berengere. "You have the amulet."

She nods. "He gave it to me. Said to take it to Jauffre, he can help me find Martin, his son."

"Then you should go," Baurus says. "I will watch over the body."

Nod. "I can probably still get that gate open..." she says, softly, tiredly.

...She needs to heal herself. Her entire everything hurts. She starts doing so.

Berengere... will frisk the bodies. Make sure they're all dead. See if they have any potions.

Potions: findable. Poisons, cure poison, cure fatigue, and healing seem most of it, plus one minor magicka potion on the person who was maybe the summoner. They're all dead, and, as far as she can tell, the assassins she saw are all accounted for. 

Lilou runs out of magicka before she finishes healing herself, makes a grouchy noise, and goes to investigate leaving as her magicka slowly creeps back.

"Here," Berengere offers the magicka potion.

"Thanks." She drinks it. 

"How many healing potions do we have?"

"Four. Six poison, three antidote, four fatigue."

"Okay."

 "Think we should save the healing potions..." She only needs one more healing spell, at least, and the last bit of magicka always feels like it returns faster. "Did any of them have a key for the gate, by the way?"

Baurus has it. "Here."

"Thanks." She gets that open, then. It's a lot easier with the key than the lockpick... She still recovers and pockets her improvised tools, though. To Berengere: "Are we good to head out?"

Deep breath.

"Yes."

Nod.

And through the gate, into the sewers. 

As the door shuts behind them - "So, uh. You look weirdly like me."

She's less good at controlling her ears than her face. They twitch.

"Yes. I- don't know why."

"Me either. Didn't have a twin, or even hear one mentioned before I ran away..."

"...I was born on the 20th of Second Seed."

"Me too."

"...I'm twenty four."

"So am I."

"Mother'd had me from another marriage, she said. Didn't mention other kids, but."

"I've always been with the Blades. A foundling."

"Don't think mother ever really wanted me, but, it'd have been weird to give up one kid and keep the other... But if she and her ex split their twins and something happened to her ex..."

"Or I could've been secretly her dead sibling's or something. Who knows." 

Hrmph.

"...My birth parents don't matter."

"I - like you, though. You're competent and reasonable. So... I want to get to know you, regardless of whether we're secretly related."

"And... If you'll let me, I want to help you find the emperor's heir."

Nod.

"My name's Berengere."

"I'm Lilou."

Hint of a smile.

"It's nice to meet you."