The Dark Order

M.1 - I've Been Having Dreams Lately...

It had been a few nights since Maggie could get a glimpse of sleep. The body aches are constant and numbing, she's lethargic but she's been way too paranoid to rest, ever since that day. Since then, she's struggled from one town to the next, one city to another, and it's all the same.

They keep coming after her.

In Portertown, she snuck her way onto a train, its final destination is in the Eastern Realm, the Valta Train Station, however, it will pass through two Northern stations first. Ramdale and Godrick Square.

The two knights are on high-alert for the young witch. Inside a full car, they inspect every person as they move from one car to the next. Sneaking around the train, Maggie finds and hides in a vacant private coach suite, out of view of the peeping glass.

Her journey will lead her to Godrick Square, she has family there and maybe she'll have a chance to rest for a while. She'll be safe there, at least, but right now, she can relax, even for a train ride. She pushes herself as far back against the wall as possible, she sits with her arms crossed, knees to chest. She rests her head on her arms as she closes her eyes.

Even with the roaring locomotive with its glaring grind on the tracks, she slowly drifts off and her body begins to relax and before long, she's sound asleep.

In one of the actual coach suites, it's the Needle and Glass Holy Knights. They're standing, peering around.

"The girl..."

"Must be found soon. She will be..."

"Very displeased, indeed. We'll..."

"Be punished severely."

Without another word, they nod at one another and they each set off. Out of the Coach suite, continue their mission.

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Maggie has since laid down, still, by the door. She has her back against it as she lays completely spread out, eventually dozing off. In the hallway, the Glass Knight peers into the coach suites, searching for her.

The coachman comes out of the car up ahead and notices him. "Excuse me, sir!" He storms over, displeased. "Sir, you can not walk around gazing into our occupied suites. It's an invasion of privacy." The knight grunts as he goes to look into Maggie's cart. "Sir! If you look into that suite, you will be immediately kicked off the train... Step away from the window, please." Not yelling but he's stern.

The knight grunts before he storms off. The coachman peers into Maggie's suite before looking shockingly toward the cart the knight entered. He looks back inside, he sees Maggie's head as she lays out on the floor. He looks around to check for onlookers before the vacant sign turns occupied and the door LOCKS.

The coachman walks off.

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After her mom left to travel farther North, Maggie spent more time in her room, looking through her things, and borrowing the comfortable. One day, while rummaging, she stumbled across a locked book, buried deep in her mom's closet.

She inspects it. The book is bound in an Amethyst, rainbow reflecting scale of some sort, rough and rigged, it resembles reptilian skin.  Burned into the cover center is an arcane circle. In the four corners, there are gold-plated circle slots.

She sits on her mom's bed and continues examining.

The slots are missing pieces which after further inspection is the mechanism used to unlock the book. She searches around for the pieces but her efforts end with disappointment. After getting the room reorganized, she decides to hold onto the book.