[Voice post to the journal network from Frederick Ecksworthy, C.E.O. of FredEcks Shipping]
She’s goooooone!
H-help! Please, somebody help me! My darling, my baby, my little girl - my poor Lydia has been kidnapped! Hurry, you have to get her back to me, she’s only five years old…! She gets so scared without me! I shudder to think of what awful things she must be going through in the hands of those brigands…!
[sobbing sounds as the speaker tries to collect himself]
I h-have a note here from the scoundrels themselves.
[He clears his throat and reads:]
“If you ever want to see her again, bring five pounds of mana crystals from your warehouses to the circle meadow in one week. You can bring three people with you as bodyguards, but that’s it - as long as they’re not police. Let’s keep this between us, shall we? Do what we say, and you’ll get little Lydia back safe and sound. Any tricks, and she’s taking a one-way trip through the cloud layer.”
You have to help! I’ll pay you anything, just-please get Lydia back to me safely!
H-help! Please, somebody help me! My darling, my baby, my little girl - my poor Lydia has been kidnapped! Hurry, you have to get her back to me, she’s only five years old…! She gets so scared without me! I shudder to think of what awful things she must be going through in the hands of those brigands…!
[sobbing sounds as the speaker tries to collect himself]
I h-have a note here from the scoundrels themselves.
[He clears his throat and reads:]
“If you ever want to see her again, bring five pounds of mana crystals from your warehouses to the circle meadow in one week. You can bring three people with you as bodyguards, but that’s it - as long as they’re not police. Let’s keep this between us, shall we? Do what we say, and you’ll get little Lydia back safe and sound. Any tricks, and she’s taking a one-way trip through the cloud layer.”
You have to help! I’ll pay you anything, just-please get Lydia back to me safely!