Chapter 3: Crow's Nest

The floor to ceiling cabinet is made of wood, the joinery clearly done by magic, as seamless as it is. But that's not unusual in your experience. On the inside, there are places for removable shelves, but they have all been taken out. There are a couple of broken bottles in the bottom, their contents leaving an unknown stain behind.

Verrian and Froak

(posting on behalf of Krav with his permission)

Krav takes a few moments to speak quietly with Shiloh, in his calm, quiet voice. Shiloh's whiskers twitch and he nods his head in apparent comprehension.

Froak approaches, bows from the waist, and extends his spindly hands. "It would be a great honor to carry the hairy friend to the place where he will begin his newest great adventure."

Shiloh sniffs briefly at Froak's fingers, then skitters into the frogman's hands. Froak lets out a quiet, delighted croak at the feel of rat feet dancing across his skin, and lifts his hat for Shiloh to climb beneath. Their rodent spy situated, Froak hops toward the door to join Verrian on the way to the spying spots. "Would you like to spy together, or you go to one spot and me to another?"

Froak nods, bobbing his head up and down in the froggy fashion. "You go to your spot, and I will take the hairy friend," he says, patting his hat very gently, "and show him the gate to the jug-lovers' home. Then I will go to my spot and wave to you when I am there. We will want to be very sneaky-like, so that the watchers do not see us."

"Be careful, friend! I would hate for the jug-lovers to poke you with their sharps!"

With that, he hops silently away toward a safe place near the gates.

As Verrian moves through an alleyway littered with abandoned crates and boxes, she goes to look around the corner and gives a box at the top of one of the stacks a bit too much of a nudge with her shoulder. She lets out an involuntary gasp, but manages to keep it from falling to the ground and completely giving away her position to anyone that might be listening carefully.

Waiting a moment to see if there are any repercussions, it seems that no one has heard, or at least, no one is coming to investigate.

Elora looks over the cabinet, takes a look at the stain on the bottom. Looks like a cabinet with an unknown stain on the floor, all right.

After she's certain no one is coming to check on her blunder, Verrian resumes moving, trying to be more mindful of her immediate surroundings. When she gets to the building outside of the walls that Froak had pointed out, she looks for the door he'd described as his entry into it. From there, he said there was a way to get to the rooftop.

The stain is a little bit sticky, but other than that, there's not much unusual about it. The residue has a faintly sweet aroma to it, but it's not immediately recognizable.