Day 2 - The Abode of Memphis

Yuna writes her article after turning in her work to Memphis's lawyer. It didn't win her any favors, as she failed to learn what truly happened. She left much of the strange events out of her writing.

The article graced page six of the paper, hardly catching the attention of her editors. Nevertheless, the experience opened her eyes to the possibility of things beyond, of things magic, dark, and secret. Once so, she started seeing the strangeness of the world work its way into normal life, where before she would have written it off.

Eventually she would start seeking these stories out, asking and probing about things no journalist would typically question. She was shunned from her own publication as her writing skewed more and more toward the esoteric, but she gained a following amongst certain readers, who were glad to continue reading her work when she started her own small paper, focusing on the unseen world.

Charles spent far longer than the others in the hospital, given the grievousness of his wound, and the agedness of his body. Recovery was slow, if a man of his years could ever truly recover from something like that.

At times, long after, he fell in with Barrington, sharing what he knew and learned about things odd and unusual. For his own part, he was one of the readers that Ms Yuna picked up as she veered towards odder and odder stories. He allowed himself the satisfaction of knowing that he had been right in the end, even if she wouldn’t admit it.

There were odd things out there. Things that couldn’t be explained, and often times shouldn’t be explained to the unready mind…

John puts his sister in the car and they drive back to the air circus. Hopefully to never think of the events of last night again.

Barrington was profoundly changed by his experience in the House of Memphis. Over the course of a couple of days, his understanding of the way the world, the universe, worked, were shaken to its core.

He continued to work as a middling stage magician - avoiding Harold at all costs, keeping away from those circles in which they had previously frequently encountered each other.

He needed to know more. To understand more. About what he'd seen and experienced in that awful place.

He and Charles stayed in touch. And he visited Charles frequently during Charles's recovery, talked with and learned from him. And once Charles could get around on his own again, they even stuck their noses together into some of the very odd things out there...