The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

[metagame]

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust

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[metagame]

I see...

[He rubs the back of his neck.]

I didn't want to preside over court today anyway... It's so boring, and everyone's just Great Pharaoh this and Great Pharaoh that. So it works out you two found me first!

Are the others down that way?

[He points down the hall where they came.]

[privatedomicile]

That's right, man, court can get bent.

Some of 'em still are probably. Got told to scatter.

[emptyself]

Maybe they shouldn’t have picked that fight. I’m not looking for them.

[ he will. ]

[privatedomicile]

There's only like two halls, they'll wrap around eventually? Unless one of these leads to the basement. Palaces got basements, yeah?

[emptyself]

Maybe. This place is huge.

[metagame]

Yes, there's a basement... You can only access that through the throne room.

[He's not too thrilled about the basement.]

But both hallways loop around to the open courtyard in the back. And the library's down this way! Would you like to see my collection of papyrus?

[townmusician]

[This is a great time for Haruka to pop up, trying to fuss with his hair. The static... at least his hair isn't as long, but it's still annoying.]

...Oh. Hi.

[At least he's in good enough shape he's not visibly out of breath from running down the halls and that fight...]

[prozaic]

[Here is Shalem too, sans tunic-scarf and shirt and much less... soft in the expression than usual. He's gone a bit insane recently, he hasn't come down from it, can't, really.]

Hmm. [He only restrains himself because there's no battle-- yet.]

[pointzeropercent]

[Suddenly Sou is here too.]

Oh hey, there's where you guys went. Thought we lost you for a minute there.

[emptyself]

Haruka. Sou.

[ his glare isn’t a powerful one by any means, but it’s clear in his expression that he’s both unhappy and extremely concerned. ]

So does this mean that the others will also end up in the library?

[ yeah he said he wasn’t going to look for then but!! he was lying. ]

[metagame]

Probably! Come on, let's go!

[townmusician]

...Uh. I don't know?

[He wasn't exactly paying attention to see if people split off or not...]