The Theurge is quiet for several moments from her spot next to her packsisters as she looks at Ingrid, the Question having been asked. It's something they've all been asking themselves at some point: Why? And it's a question that's troubled Keisha deeply. She's done some asking around about certain things and she has...
She doesn't know what she has. Theories. Hypotheticals. Guesses based on circumstantial evidence. None of it is solid, or even much to go on. But no information is bad information at this point, and after Erich and Ingrid have had their exchange, she speaks up.
"Cold Crescent isn't the first place that the Beloved Horror have attacked. The pack attacked Forgotten Question years ago, before the city Sept was founded. At the time, it was still twelve people, and the attacks were...just attacks."
Her nose wrinkles. The word 'just' seems to imply something that's no big deal, which it clearly is. Any battle with a Spiral pack is. But she moves on.
"Murders. The usual you might see from a Spiral pack. There were no rituals, and they certainly weren't as powerful as they are now. They were repelled, half their number killed. And then they vanished, only to come back a year ago when they began attacking Cold Crescent."
She pauses there. Considers her words...chooses them carefully. "There has to be a correlation. There's a reason they switched from Forgotten Questions to Cold Crescent, and a reason they waited so long before returning. A Spiral pack...there are so many targets out there in the world. Weaker places. Vanishing for so long and then coming back...this location means something to them. Something that...I think it has to be personal. Maybe someone who is now at Cold Crescent who was at Forgotten Questions when the original attacks happened. Maybe vengeance for their losses...I don't know for sure. But it's got to be more than just a...a change in strategy."
She falls silent then, before her eyes widen and she speaks up once more. "Oh. And the ritual, I think, might be giving them their additional power."
She doesn't know what she has. Theories. Hypotheticals. Guesses based on circumstantial evidence. None of it is solid, or even much to go on. But no information is bad information at this point, and after Erich and Ingrid have had their exchange, she speaks up.
"Cold Crescent isn't the first place that the Beloved Horror have attacked. The pack attacked Forgotten Question years ago, before the city Sept was founded. At the time, it was still twelve people, and the attacks were...just attacks."
Her nose wrinkles. The word 'just' seems to imply something that's no big deal, which it clearly is. Any battle with a Spiral pack is. But she moves on.
"Murders. The usual you might see from a Spiral pack. There were no rituals, and they certainly weren't as powerful as they are now. They were repelled, half their number killed. And then they vanished, only to come back a year ago when they began attacking Cold Crescent."
She pauses there. Considers her words...chooses them carefully. "There has to be a correlation. There's a reason they switched from Forgotten Questions to Cold Crescent, and a reason they waited so long before returning. A Spiral pack...there are so many targets out there in the world. Weaker places. Vanishing for so long and then coming back...this location means something to them. Something that...I think it has to be personal. Maybe someone who is now at Cold Crescent who was at Forgotten Questions when the original attacks happened. Maybe vengeance for their losses...I don't know for sure. But it's got to be more than just a...a change in strategy."
She falls silent then, before her eyes widen and she speaks up once more. "Oh. And the ritual, I think, might be giving them their additional power."
"The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."