All this talk of a blood curse, unrelated to the City's typical magic ... intruiging.

[Filtered to Hospital Staff]

What is the extent of our knowledge of those that have died beyond this world? Something I don't know. Appalling. Something I should have asked sooner - also, appalling. I ask because I've heard that the hospital is in need of ( Read more... )

So we have a cat to our dog.

Are we the mice?

Another message has appeared on the network. My computer alerted me of it just as I was about to retire from my study for the day, and needless to say, it is as disconcerting as the previous one.

( Of course, I feel the need to analyze such a cryptic note. )

[Voice Post; begin transmission.]

[shoes scuffing against the floor, a deep breath ( Read more... )

where is...

kitty. kitty please.
jesus. what did i do to you?

valentine
sorry -- so sorry.
not me but him.

ohgod i'm going mad

mad mad mad
magic incantation summon
notes, bartimaeus, i --

I DID NOT MEAN TO
but:

mandrake
complete.

it hurts it hurts blood...

[ooc; Upon midnight, Nathaniel comes to his senses, slumped on his study table and ( Read more... )

[Private.]

I think I understand now.

[/Private.]

[ooc; No one should be able to hack that, but feel free to poke at him, as he's emerged from the library now.]

All my research, all my books, all my notes, as well as the seemingly limitless supply of knowledge from the library... And absolutely nothing solves it ( Read more... )

I shouldn't be that disturbed by it, but I am.

I can't quite bring myself to go into it either, how pathetic is that? It's just a plot of land, but it's damn unsettling to notice that some of the markers are blank and have no names at all. It makes you wonder if they'll stay that way, or if names will be etched into the stone soon enough ( Read more... )

...I don't understand.

He's -- he's fine. He's well, not ill, his essence is like it's been replenished by the Other Place. But that's not possible, is it? I don't know if it's possible for him to return there from the City, if there are even doorways in and out of that place. Perhaps we are only linked to our corporeal world back home, otherwise ( Read more... )

God, what the hell ( Read more... )