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Hellboy: ...........there somewhere we can go to talk more freely?

Ralar: Yes. You can come to my estate. We can talk freely there.

Hellboy: Sure. Let me go leave a note for my colleagues first. Come with me back to the inn?

Ralar: *hesitates...but nods* All right.

*By the time they're getting back to the in, Darnell is also returning. No sign of Terris having been back yet, though.*

*And Ari isn't there, either.*

Hellboy: *spots Darnell, nods at the stairs up to their room, gives Ralar a look to follow*

Darnell: *troubled demeanor, gives Ralar a nod and will follow*

*Ralar's story will be corroborated when he steps in. The inn keeper is shocked to see him, and is instantly asking if there's anything he can get his lordship! Ralar softly assures the man that he's fine, he's just here to meet with someone.* 

 

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Ralar: .......He /is/ why I knew I was safe approaching you... *that's as close as he'll come to admitting that his raven is an inriomai* ...I wish I knew for sure, but I have a feeling that it has to do with... well, as you put it earlier, releasing hell. I wasn't appointed city lord here, I asked to be, because a dear friend of mine disappeared, and the clues pointed to this town. ....She's an Overseer. *kind of watching Hellboy to see how much he might know...*

Hellboy: *nods, accepting that as confirmation . . . small frown at the friend disappearing, deepens to a /scowl/ at the last* Then they already have what they need to bring down the Barrier. How long ago did she go missing?

Ralar: About a week before I came here. There weren't many lords interested in becoming city lord of a small town like this, but when Fenway was taken... I volunteers to come here to see if I could find her. I...I fear it's too late for her, but I have to stop the people who took her, even if I can't save her...

Hellboy: A week before...and how long have you been lord now?

Ralar: *voice soft* ...Two months...

Hellboy: *grimaces* Yeah, probably too late . . . but maybe not. The only /known/ way to bring down the Barrier is with an Overseer, from what I've been told by the Overseer in ((CITY)). Obviously, the Barrier's not down yet, so could be there are more steps involved and your friend is being held while they figure that out.

Ralar: Frankly? I hope that's true, if only because it scares me to think such horrors would be so... easy to release.

Hellboy: From what I understand, getting a hold of an Overseer is not easy at all, for exactly this reason. But... *nods* What do you know about that guy Barrett mentioned? The one you don't like.

Ralar: ....I know Szeth is extremely uncomfortable around him. *as is his other inrie, but while he trusts that Hellboy is not an enemy he's long trained himself not to speak of his inrie, so he doesn't even consider doing so now.* My raven. *to clarify who Szeth is* 

Hellboy: *nods* Has he told you why? What he's seen or what he senses?

Ralar: They way he looks at people?  The way he talks? Inriomai have a good sense about people and whether or not they are good. Most people, even if not recognized by an inriomai, don’t bother them, but Straff? He unsettles mine, and that worries me. He’s very guarded about the people allowed on his grounds. He doesn’t take well to be questioned or challenged. He becomes cold and... verbally vicious if he feels you’ve said something to dishonor him. I don’t know, he’s... /too/ defensive of his “honor”, as though he has to defend it lest people realize he has none.