Kallistēi | Glowfic Constellation

"Oh, an hour after peak?"

"I'll be here."

"I'll be seeing you then."

She walks off, pocketing her money hastily.

Right. Call that an investment. Time?

There's still time until antipeak. The city is as active as ever.

Right. So where's Kylie?

She could be anywhere. Touts are just as often giving a tour or selling information as they are looking for new marks customers.

When anywhere is possible, everywhere is where you look.

She's certainly not in the Lady's Ward; none of the residents would countenance tours.

How long does she look?

Oh, an hour so past anti-peak. She ought to get some sleep tonight at least.

Eventually, she spots a woman running past her, leaping over carts and ducking around affronted customers in the Market Ward.

What's she running from?

A party of three: a human carrying a longbow, a gnome holding a glowing orb, and a half-orc wearing heavy armor.

They pause as they lose sight of her.

Kylie spots Sefi, and lands just behind her.

"Hide me from the fiend-food and I can give you the dark on anything. I'm Kylie, you've heard of me by now. Well?"

"All right." She looks around. She knows a place not too far from here. "This way." Down an alley.

Kylie follows, close at her heels. She occasionally starts to outpace Sefi, but falls back when she realizes she doesn't have a clue where they're going.

"Got a name, cutter?"

"Sefi. Left up here."

Left she runs.

"Those berks can pike it if they think I'm going to help them! What'd ya want to know?"

"I'm looking for information on a necromancer. Elgar Silverheart."

She grimaces.

"Him? If you really want that rattling around in your brain-box. What are you looking to know?"

"I heard he used to be in the Harmonium, but now he wants to be a lich. What's up with that?"

"The addle-cove likes enforcing punishments as much as he wants to live forever, and he can't have both anymore."

"Did he keep any allies?"