Clamping down on his tongue was oddly therapeutic, when Reid's only other considered option was to tell the high priestess exactly how nice it was of her to join them. Thankfully Aloth would do the talking; and so he did, gracefully bowing his head and uttering his respectful acknowledgements. "Seledora," he greeted, the corners of his lips twitching upward in a polite smile. "It's been quite a long time. I thank you for meeting with me on such short notice."<br/><br/>Seledora adjusting herself in her seat gave a curtsy-fashioned smile to Aloth. Straightening her shoulders and tilting her chin slightly up and forward, her body language indicated in silence that she is ready to listen. There was a sense of purpose in the way she did not let her gaze wander.<br/><br/>With her silent acknowledgement, Aloth continued. "And of course, I do apologize for the hour. Needless to say, I would not have stirred you from your chambers in the middle of the night were it not important. However..," Aloth's voice trailed off as he spared a sidelong glance at the only man in his cadre. Reid nodded and craned over in his seat, snatching up a satchel that he'd deposited by his feet at their arrival. "I think you'll find that this is of the utmost importance."<br/><br/>That said, Reid's spindly fingers tangled in the brevity of hair that they found in the satchel, pulling upward once he was sure he had a grip. In the middle of the table, he sat it. 'It' being a head, severed though it did not bleed. The skin was thick, pallid and marred, and there were no eyes to speak of. Instead, two pinprick holes bore into each side of the face, something that Reid could only explain as ears. And from the earholes, the mouth began, stretching the entire width of its face into a grotesque grin. Reid pulled the top of the head back just so, and the entire top half of its face pulled back to reveal rows of teeth. Hundreds of them, small and pointed and lethal.<br/><br/>"So again, do accept my apologies for waking you," Aloth said. "But I imagined that you'd want to see this."