Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-26068742-20170822035703/@comment-28929139-20170822041339

Thankfully, Marek jumped right in with an addition to their fake story and made it sound more believable. To back him up, Pandora nodded while keeping her psuedo-concerned eyes fixed on this priestess, adding to this whole facade of keeping up appearances. But when Marek ran up and grabbed  the hand of the priestess' to hug her, wetting his face up with crocodile tears and made this whole big spiel, Pandora had to bite her tongue to keep from snickering. Yeah it was the first time she had seen him make any display of anguished emotion but she knew it wasn't real. "Yes! Yes, please. I beg of you. Pray tell what happened." Pandora chimed in, running up the staircase in tow behind Marek.

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Heartbreaking, it almost was. These two, they seemed to care a great deal about this sister. The priestess stared down at the two of, and was still, much as a statue, when the young male rushed to embrace her. Her expression was sympathetic but her looming frame was immobile, stiff, for the duration of this anguished union. Eyes then drifted to Tomoe, the sister, hearing her words and both their pleas, seeing the salt in their tears. "Another sister. I see." A finely shaped brow arched at their sad anecdote but her voice remained sweet as funny while her face cold as stone. So desperate they were, to find answers, and yet perhaps too late. "Every year, a sacrifice is made to the gods and the priestess, a young woman who was older than I am now. She would select a criminal, a stain on sociey, as that sacrifice." She let that sink in now, eying them both for a reaction.

"However, upon the last endeavor in selecting the next appeasement for the gods, a terrible thing happened. An outbreak from the dreaded prison. It ended with any innocents slain, the guilty running free, and my sister in the fellowship...terminated." She looked to them once again, feeling prophetic, daunting even. "Perhaps your sister, this...Rain...perhaps she might have perished in this slaughter. Or perhaps she and this lover of wealth and love....they took off together."