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[Day 2, Night - A House South of Town]

[Written into the ground alongside one of the houses to the south of town tonight are a series of strange letters, forming a rough circle near the wall. A figure of approximately Loki's build, not there during the day's exploration, leans against the wall at the corner. The door to the house is open.]

[Some hours after the sudden switch from day to night, Loki stands in front of the door, a candle before him, a kitchen knife in one hand and a spoon in the other. He checks the mirror set carefully in the darkness, nothing yet visible in its surface. Then he strikes the knife with the spoon's handle, and he holds his breath - and he waits.]

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A rare being.

Could you be a little more specific. It might be important!

He is that.

I drew upon the ground the circle to call one who would aid us.

When it arrived, that substance spilled forth and washed over it, wresting control.

[ slight nod ]

In any case. We are off topic again.

By a fault, I would like to add, not my own.

I will take full credit for this particular tangent.

What did you hope to gain in summoning such a creature.

Knowledge.

The Teller presides over the tales of others. It might have told me of mine.

... How do you not know it?

Have you every answer, yourself? Do you know who it is that brought us here, and why, and how we might be gone?

Of course not.

Then you also might have benefited from the Teller's words.

Which were?

Nothing at all. Before I'd a chance to ask what I wished, it was overtaken by that black substance.

... Curious.

As you say. Though I would perhaps venture to propose "alarming," instead.

Yes, that too. This place has certain defenses, it seems.

Else the intervention was accidental. A blunder of location, or an outside influence.

Possible, but defense mechanism is more elegant.

Perhaps. If the truth, however, those who would leave have need of finding a way by it.

You were able to summon something here? And it made it! Sort of.

That's good, right?

I would be loathe to try it again. That it was able to take control of such a creature at all speaks of great power.

Which is why I said it was curious. Self-contradicting...

Unless the one that crafted it intended to remain.

[Pauses a beat.]

Or intended the company to remain.

Yes. Yes, I think so. Someone is reluctant to let us go.

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