another warmoot-y thing! [attn: ALL]

[Samael]

Javed listens when Eva begins speaking, and listens closely. He is still a newcomer to this city, though he is rather integrated at this point. He has a packmate, and he acts as a protector of the city as many of them are in the wake of the loss of Cold Crescent's Guardians. Even without those investments in the location, he would be paying attention because he knows very well as a traveller to many Septs, many locations where the Garou fight the Wyrm in a neverending battle of lost and gained and re-lost territory, who crucially important every piece of information and every inch of ground can be.

He crosses his arms as he sits next to Avery. He focuses on Eva's words, her expression that he won't remember, with his one good eye. There is a little frown when Eva says all the theories are wrong, but not an unexpected one. That was the clearest thing to come out of that discussion last time; that they didn't know why and that any guessing was pure speculation. Javed doesn't buy into speculation. Intelligence is the weapon that helps the Garou strike and intelligence should be based on guesswork as rarely as possible.

He listens to the history, the names, the presence of concerning tunnels underneath the airport and levels below Cold Crescent. A couple of times his attention flicks to Avery, seeing her reaction, and then looks back.

The bombshell has to be dropped, but by then it's already been guessed at. Eva has delivered the clues on her way to getting to the point, but the saying of the words makes the red passion of his blood werm several degrees.

And then he speaks in that gravelly, Iranian-accented but clearly-enunciated tone.

"If I could express such personally to themI would advise them to prepare for disappointment." It's not bravado or mocking, it's no joke. Javed has little use for such things. It's simply a certainty, a statement of finality from the Strider.

"We must get into those lower levels. Clearly they must be secure, as nothing has come up from them, but it must be made certain. And as the leaders of Cold Crescent are becoming rarer..." He probably doesn't need to mention the missing Rite Master; people have probably noticed or heard, even as Forgotten Question's representatives remain. "Things may slip through the cracks, and answers may not be available. Those answers need to be discovered."

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It all makes sense. Keisha doesn't know why she didn't think of it before...she had noted the strange spiritual convergence and she had . Maybe if she hadn't been so busy in the month following the 43rd Floor incident, or maybe if she hadn't...or if she hadn't...it doesn't matter. The point is that someone came to the conclusion. She doesn't care that it wasn't her; it was someone and that's the important part.

The connection, she vocalizes over their pack link. What Fern told us. Goddess, the green fire...it makes sense.

"The Spiral pack is getting their power from Green Dragon," she says then, rising to speak. "We've spoken with Fern, the cub who we took from them, and that much was made clear. And it all makes sense...the green fire that scoured Cold Crescent that night. We should look closer at the Umbral aspects, the ley line convergence...if there's a connection between the building and the pack that is more than just them reclaiming their own home, there may be something in there that could help us break that link, disrupt the ritual."

Yes, she's terrified at the idea that the Sept is a former haven to the Wyrm. She's a little in shock and there are so many terrible things that are surely coming out of this. But where her mind overwhemls her with the bad and the darkness, it just makes the illumination of a direction for opportunity that much brighter and easier to see.