Brothers Separated By A Single Channel

[paladin_robot]

[1]

...I'm going after Isaac.

[Richard makes his intent pretty clear and simple as he starts packing some of his stuff, food and supplies already stuffed into a backpack. At his workbench, he briefly hesitates as he picks up his sword... but straps it to his side anyway.]

I've got some idea of where he might go, and I've things to check on anyway.

[Richard seems pretty determined, anything you might have to say?]

[2]
[Locked]

For a place being fortified, wasn't that hard to get in...

[Richard muses as he steps towards the Sinclair household, though admittedly even Britannian special forces did not typically have the might of magic at their command.

He stares up at the aged building for a bit, wondering if the people inside had ever really met a - as they would call him - 'Norman' before...

Well, as he knocked on the door, time to find out.]

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Re: 2

[paladin_robot]

You don't say...

[Richard is... surprised to actually hear Isaac apparently thought so highly of him. In private at that. The tea is certainly helping to lift his spirits, although...]

As for him... I don't know. There was a mission in Pendragon, after you called him regarding the court decision. He disabled an ally and released a hostile creature, before fleeing without explaining himself. His whereabouts, unknown... Had kinda hoped he might stop here.

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[armored_fruit]

"...I see." the Duchess says, lowering her cup of tea and setting it on his plate. "Gloriana, could you check the perimeter for breaks in the wall?"

Gloriana strides out, and you and Isaac's mother are alone for the moment.

"Isaac has not shown up here." She says quietly. "Nor has he responded to any message I've sent. Not even my spies have been able to locate his whereabouts."

She stirs some sugar into her tea.

"But just a day after the Pendragon incident, a certain..thorn in the family's side was promptly and forcibly removed. Our estate has been granted the status of a Royal Protected Nature Reserve under our stewardship. And certain families from the the Royal Court have sent invitations inviting us to take part in some joint financial enterprises–out of the blue, as it were."

She keeps stirring. "Curious, no?"

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[paladin_robot]

...Very. I'd talked to him about potentially talking to members of the royal family weighing in with some support for your claims, but that goes beyond anything we discussed.

So that's what he got for... whatever he tried to do.

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[armored_fruit]

"So it seems." Isaac's mother says, starring at the tea in her cup.

"I hardly dared to hope...but he did it. My little son Isaac saved our family home." She says softly.

Yet with clear pride in her voice.

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[paladin_robot]

Yeah, at the cost of risking friends, allies, and possibly the wider city of Pendragon if we hadn't stopped what he set loose. Seriously, it was like, a cyborg dinosaur.

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[armored_fruit]

"...What?" Isaac's mother says, her carefully Britannian poise and restraint fluctuating.

She pulls out a fan. "What for? No, a pointless question. Who."

She leans forward. "Who was Isaac working for?"