*Meanwhile*

"Not at all, misses. We'll visit the ol' guy at once."

The mage fumbled around in his pockets until he pulled out an iron ring completely adorned with keys to the various doors of the fortress.

"What? You didn't think I'd have had keys, huh?

Oh, hah! I've forgotten! I'm one of the folks who run this place. I've got access to anywhere I please: The Guardhouse, The Pub, The Dungeon... even the Ice Block.

'sides, at this time o' day, Mister Malaku isn't one to be bothered. Either he's planting plants or just sleeping. No sense in knocking, anyway."

He flipped through the keys until he came upon one with a small leaf inscribed on its side.

"This is it... in we go."

So, Hex led his way around the corner to the greenhouse, half-expecting what he was going to see. Sure enough, the door had been kicked through.

He drooped his shoulders slightly, tucked the key ring away with a murmur of "...didn't need these after all" and entered the Greenhouse.

A frown bent from his lips. Elbow wasn't there, and neither was that other person. (He didn't know enough at the time, and from his vantage point he couldn't determine any details. They were only blobs of gray from his distance.)

"My dear," began the mage, "I wonder what happened here."

He looked back up towards Brytemeadow with an expression explaining something along the lines of "perhaps we should get to the bottom of this".
-The Plumed Knight.-

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