<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c4/a2/eb/c4a2eb3622a5fd5f4149b8e094a22fa3.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Danae Vine-Lott (https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/13428552/mqOlTT)<br/><strong>Location: </strong>Guest quarters<br/><strong>Wearing: </strong>Asylum clothing<br/><strong>Content: </strong>Planning ahead<br/><strong>Tagging: </strong>Corinne, Open<br/><br/>"You are quite right, Madame," Danae said to Corinne.  She had her hands clasped behind her back, pondering their options, "Though I would very much like to leave this place, I cannot do so without the survivors of the wreck of the<em>Charlotte</em>.  They are my responsibility.  As for witchcraft," she clasped her wrist tight in her hand at the dull throb of a fresh welling of memories.  There<em>had</em>been deranged chanting in the basement, and wild-eyed, red haired women nude and streaked in blood and worshiping a face in the great furnace in the drawing room when they thought the house slept.  "There is witchery about this place, but it is not us.  Dr Rehner spoke something in an ancient tongue.  Madame Hotspur heard it, too."<br/><br/>She nodded to Margaret, whom she kept close to her side.  That was more than a sense of protectiveness, but of security in numbers.  The girl would have been of little use in a confrontation, no doubt, but a pair of eyes and ears were always welcome.<br/><br/>"It sees like our hosts wish for us to spend the night here, and that I would avoid if we have any choice.  Whatever explanation they have in store for us is unlikely to be satisfactory."  She paused, and contemplated the possibility that there might be someone<em>listening</em>to them.  Ezra watches indeed.  She did not wish to contemplate what dreams she might have in a place such as this.<br/><br/>To Aloisa she said, "Quite, brandy would be most welcome," though she thought yet more fondly of a dose of laudanum.  She had not slept since before they had been shipwrecked, "if only I had my hipflask.  A soldier's second most trusted companion.  We should be cautious.  If we were to make a false move, we could well become yet more inmates in this place and I do not think any would think to look for us.  Let us hear what the good Doctors have to say this evening and find for ourselves any answers they do not offer freely, though they did not appreciate Madame Hotspur and I wondering off-path."