A Cold Case (Semi-Open)
Characters: Clare, Semi-Open
Time: Saturday May 5, most of the day.
Location: Blackstone, Conference Room
Content: Clare's gotta come clean to others about the Grail key.
Format: Whatever, starting prose.
Notes: Clare will be less talkative to people who she didn't invite, but if they want to drop in they can try. I'd rather have multiple people in ( Read more... )
Time: Saturday May 5, most of the day.
Location: Blackstone, Conference Room
Content: Clare's gotta come clean to others about the Grail key.
Format: Whatever, starting prose.
Notes: Clare will be less talkative to people who she didn't invite, but if they want to drop in they can try. I'd rather have multiple people in ( Read more... )
Clare's phone was a stage above off. It was in a closed circle on the table, magic phones don't work if cut off from the magical energies around the city. It had a note 'Do not cross line' on top of the phone inside the circle. How she closed the circle could be answered with the small band aid on a finger.
Clare was still staring at the pendant, aware Sam was sitting across from her but she didn't respond just yet. "Hey... glad you could make it," She was stalling, mostly in case others showed up, "My research isn't getting me anywhere. But something is up."
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"Knock, knock, private party over here? Hey Clare," he remarked as he wandered in.
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"Well, I'm out of my depth with this, so any help I can get," Clare put the pendant down on the table when Dean came in. She looked up at the newcomer, spending five minutes with the two you could see they had some sort of connection, "I'm going to guess he already knows. As its a private party but I'm sure you're okay so long as stripclubs don't come up."
"Closing a circle on the phone cuts it off, I got the idea when the phone cut out in Undertown," Clare drew a circle that wasn't closed yet on the table for the two phones. "Works better than turning the phone off, magic does have rules here. And these are magic."
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Nodding to the circle, he said, "It's a good idea. Too bad they're normally too useful to keep them in one at all times."
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He took in the circle with the phone, and remarked, "Figuring who we know is tapping the phones, temporary block would help for this." He gave a meaningful glance to Clare about who he was talking about.
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"Right, well, so long as it doesn't get around too much," Clare took off the band-aid to close the second circle with the phones belonging to the brothers. It just takes a little bit of blood and will. If the phones were on they aren't anymore. "The person I was trying to keep from finding out about my deal with Lara and my sword knows so that just leaves the Grail as being a secret worth protecting."
"I don't know if she's tapping the phones," Getting where Dean was going, "But better safe. Lara might have a way into the network, she could just as easily have spies. Maybe one of the fake people is real, a thrall of the White Court." This was all, however, a different matter with even more questions and no answers.
"Anyway, that's not what I need help with. The past few weeks the Pendant was feeling warm to the touch. Last night... well, just touch it," Clare gestured to the small token she had carried since Galahad put it around her neck. This is in fact the furthest its been from her since she was given it. "I'm out of books to research the grail, no more ideas what to do."
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He glanced at the key, then frowned and reached out to touch it. The frown deepened. "It's like ice," he said, sitting back. "Has it been doing that since the storms started getting really bad?"
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He peered at the pendant, "Warm and now cold? Supposed to be like a mood ring or something?" Even if he briefly looked closer though no way it could be like his own pendant.
"Mine never got like that," he muttered half to himself.
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"I wasn't suggesting a fake person being thralled, but that a fake person isn't as fake," Clare figured there wasn't there for fake people, but if someone played right they could pass as one around ordinary humans and some of the supernatural crowd. "I keep track of whose still listed as active. I have no idea if putting a phone in a circle makes us appear gone to the network or not. I don't ask Bob about it because... he's Bob."
"The storms are magic, and its obviously magic, so it could be reacting to that... or something else has it reacting," Clare frowned at it, "its supposed to let us have the sangraal when we're ready. It could also be that... wait, did Dean just say something.
"What was that?" She could have sworn he said 'mine,' did he have a similar pendant?
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He folded his hands under his chin. "The weather could be Fae related? It could make sense, then, that the key is reacting to whichever is in ascendancy." It was a bit of a stretch, maybe, but not much of one.
Glancing over at Dean, though, he snorted. "I'm not entirely certain your amulet was made for an epic game of 'hot or cold'." He...just needed to remember exactly what it was for, that's all.
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He then said, with a brief glance of regret to Sam, "I used to have an amulet. Cas told me it would burn hot in God's presence. But he was hiding too much for it ever to work."
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"Maybe..." Clare thought about it, but some things didn't add up, "When we went into Undertown it was because of the weather. Violent shifts between Summer and Winter. This rain... It's different." There was also the fact that she didn't think the sangraal's magic would react to the fae. It was God's treasure, if it reacted it should be to something holier.
Then Dean mentioned his amulet, "It... maybe that's it!" Clare considered if that could be just that. The Grail is a holy artifact, a key for such an artifact would be equally attuned. The grail had as much purpose being attuned to Fae as it did members of the Roman Pantheon. "Have we had any incidents during the past few weeks that could be, well, miracles?"
However as Clare considered that, two things came to mind. 1. It never grew hot. 2. Ice cold is the opposite of hot, did that mean the opposite of God? That put a chill through her spine.
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The fact that the rain WASN'T the cause of warring Fae, now, made Sam's frown deepen. "Okay. So...maybe it's being caused by whatever's in that box you guys found." Glancing at Dean because that's where he heard of the box from.
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"I'm with you on that," Clare didn't like the thought that the pendant was reacting to a complete opposite of God being present in town. But given the stories about the skinwalker, there were a few things that would qualify as causing such a reaction.
"Well..." Clare considered, "Unless someone was told to build an arc, you're right about the weather. But there has to be something to separate now and before. Something that shifted last night." Of course, it would be infinitely better if this was wrong. That the token was reacting to something else. Because if it was telling them how close they were to getting the grail, or if God was not around... bad news. "Wait, what happened when you found the box?"
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