Thread: Answers demanded. (Any Malk, others as invited)

Maddalena looks up from her desk at her warehouse. She frowns at the sense of urgency. She makes her way quickly to the Asylum, nearly running down the hall. She stops just before his office, composing herself. She walks in slowly, watching Stan as she sits.
"Hello." she says cautiously. His moods were always a gamble after he'd been researching.

Working on a report in her office in the Museum, Lydia smiles slowly. Nodding she knows that he is back finally. Getting up she grabs her coat on the way out the door.
Once at the hospital she parks her car and sits there for a moment looking around. Getting out she walks in. Getting to his office she knocks on the door.

Stan nodes toaddy as she enters a slight smile on his face. He watches he take a seat.
"I hope things have been going good for you this past week."
His head quickly turns to look out the winow as something ketches his attetion. When he looks back he has a strange
smile. He winks as Maddy as he sits waiting. Once Lydia knocks he says come in and waits for her to take a seat.
He looks from one to the other as he flips open an unused notebook.
"Okay, I am going to cut to the chase. I am in a race right now and don't have time for plesentries and bull shit. If Hearthing gets any filurther ahead of me we will all die. Right now I need to know the nes of anyone his this city who has information on the seals as well as what they know. I know their are others who are interested in the notebook but at this time it is not safe for them to have it, for your saftey you should not have even touched it my prince."
His hand is writting as he speaks as if it is going on by itself, the two can feel
his presence in the network as the strings ties to him twang and hum at a frenzied pace.

Maddalena sits up, looking at Stan curiously, this was not what she had expected at all... This was not right.

"I have conscripted Pius to investigate. Also, talk with Benjamin... he knows quite a bit. Are... Are you alright? What do you mean I shouldn't have touched it?"

Stan smiles at Maddy as she as he questions.
"Benjamin as Pius, Pius and Ben, Ben Pius."
His head twitches and sharply turns, causing a series of loud pops as if he is seeing if he can break his neck. *His hand still wrights in the notebook as he turns his eyes to Lydia then back to Maddy. *A slight chuckly comes from him as he regards his child.
"That book is more than a book, it has it's own essance, born of the one who penned it. *I would even venture to say it could possibly be the best recruting tool ever created, though unintentualy. *One who was not prepared and weak in will wouldent even know what happened to them. *It is now locked away were no one but myself can find it."
He turns and looks to Lydia, waiting for her to talk apparently done with Maddy for now.

Looking at Stan with a frown. "I told you the book was evil. We must destroy it. As for Joseph, with his powers he will be hard to catch or even get ahead of."

Looking out the window for a moment "Did he get the fourth broke then? I have been trying to see but no luck yet."

Stan looks from Lydia to the notebook. He quickly draws a circle numbering it from one to twelve like a clock. He laughs as if realizing something. He puts an x over one two and three. He starts to cross out number four but his hand stops moving as he gets one line through it. A frustratedlook comes to his face as the network throbes and pulses around him.

"I...I don't think he has gotten the fourth yet but he is close. The book will not be destroyed as it still holds keys to this puzzle. I have to stop him from destrying the seals, everything depends on that. I need Ben and Pius here, I need to know what they know to see if they know anything new."

His eyes seem to glase over as he says the last part and his hand starts writing again.

Maddalena sits silently.