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She- well, not always, but for quite a long time, knew she was going to die. It's a hazard of the trade, using their power and fighting this war. Everyone dies. A magical girl never grows old, she just disappears.
Now it's her turn to disappear.
Follow her legs into oblivion.
Hopefully it happens before this really starts to hu-
The villa is, fortunately, as described - and Berenike has arrived at a relatively quiet moment.
The room is, fortunately, empty - as is the hallway beyond, it seems, though there's a quiet bustle of activity.
She goes lightly through the house, keeping to the shadows and staying alert for sudden approaches, minndful of both her destination and escape routes.
She has to stop and hide a few times, but - no one even seems to suspect she's here, and she's fairly perfectly able to anticipate people's movements from the faint echo of footsteps and voices. She gets to the likely record room - the office of one of the higher ranked family members - with ease.
Manifests and letters make up the bulk of what she finds. There's a map on the wall, but there's no exact, clearly labeled routes drawn on it. There's payment records too, but it's in a dense shorthand, and mostly formatted as a budget.
The organization system... Isn't, really. But she can piece together patterns quickly enough to find what she's looking for.
Then she just needs to memorize enough to take back to her mistress before someone decides to interrupt her.
Her memory's extremely good for this sort of thing, and she reads fast enough that she's gotten through a lot of it before she years footsteps approaching from down the hall.
Time to go.
She replaces what she's currently looking at (she's been cleaning up as she goes) and ducks out the window.
She gets out of sight just in time - the door inside opens, and she hears someone heading into the room and sitting at the desk.
Phew.
This window wasn't her entrance because there's no direct route up- but a quick drop down is always an option. She lands softly in the garden below.
No one's there - and while the villa is getting busier, she's able to slip out unseen.
It's getting late when she arrives back, but not terribly so - and Seshen meets her in the courtyard of her own villa. "Did you find the information, slave?"
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