<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/57/Monsterpoh02.jpg)</div>OOC: The two questions that Danielle had asked regarding the moment of intimacy, the Soul Gaze, were freebies according to the MC, and thus will not take an addition 2 Corruption for asking follow-up questions for the future vision Danielle gets about Ryan.<br/><br/>Danielle will ask her two questions, while laying her hand on the brick (planning to do some Psychometry).<br/><hr/>Danielle did as Ryan told her to do and rested.<em>Maybe, I'll have my tea, now, dear Archivist,</em>she joked to herself. Fiona stepped up and mentioned what they were really here about.<em>All this magic being done and I get distracted,</em>she commented to herself. At least one of them was on the right page and mentioned about the Lord of Shadow and Blood. Danielle closed her eyes, feeling a bit too overwhelmed by the sudden visions, so much that even the lights in the lair was hard on her eyes. So, as she rested, she listened to what Ryan had to say. Maybe it was their recent moment of intimacy, something Danielle didn't initially intend for, but was actually glad she performed, that allowed him the freedom to provide as much information that they can use to get one or more steps closer to finding this prophesied character.<br/><br/>Ryan was no stranger to her. Yes, they had met not too long ago, but being a guest in the magical peeling back of layers had grown some concern in her for her new... "friend?" "Ally" seemed to be the correct word to use. Still in the back of her mind, she replayed the vision of a man with a grey beard conversing with Ryan. She had seen this person before. Danielle would wait until an appropriate time to follow-up with Ryan. In the meantime, he had some wisdom to unload to the duo. At first, he literally dissecting the name and how such words could be a metaphor for something greater or darker. Danielle tilted her head when Ryan connected the Shadow part of the name to someone who could hide in the shadows, but not like a physical being could do. Then, it was apparent with the victim they had saw last night and the blood etched into the rock that the Blood in the name could mean this character could take power from the intricacies of a Blood Sacrifice. Danielle thought about the Native Americans that she had lived among in the 19th century, how they had witch doctors that dealt with that sort of stuff. Yes, it may have been minor, using the blood of lowly animals, but if someone were to use the blood of a human or even a fae like that naiad, theoretically, they'd have loads more power.<br/><br/>If this Lord of Shadows and Blood could be stopped, the easiest thing to do were to negate the two elements of its name. Ryan thought of ways, both defensively and offensively, that they could try to do just that. Maybe Ally was a good word after all, since Ryan expressed that he would help them find such a weapon to battle against this Lord, but there was a catch. Danielle knew there was always a catch, but she had a feeling the catch was mutual. The Marys. The old woman and the blonde upstairs. It made sense. When Danielle opened her eyes, she saw Ryan gestured towards the brick, which was sitting in a pentagram on a table. Brick... window.... Danielle nodded, connecting the dots. Who or what threw the brick wished to threaten the Archivist and their task was the delivery of Ryan's reply to those who would threaten what held dear.<br/><br/>Before Ryan was finished speaking, Danielle got up from the chair and would block Fiona if she tried to reach for the brick.<strong>"Ryan. There is something else and I don't think it can wait. Well, actually, I think you would need to know going forward,"</strong>she said and turned to Fiona and gestured her to stand side. Her fingers slowly walked themselves from the edge of the pentagram table to the center, where the brick sat. It may have looked sneaky, but Danielle had no intention to be sneaky, but her desire was to stall for time to give Ryan something regarding his future. Still, in the back of her mind, she felt this was totally against her nature.<strong>"I saw something else, but it wasn't about your past, but of your future. In my visions, there is a man with a grey beard and hair. You and him were talking to each other, reminiscing on old times or noticing how much time has already passed. He did not come off as a threat, but there was disagreement in the conversation. May I ask, is this man from the boarding school in your past?"</strong>Daniel explained and then asked her first question. She'd let the question linger and maybe even let him answer. Whether or not he does, she asks her second.<strong>"And I sensed a separation between you two. You were intimate in some capacity, maybe love lost. But he returned to give you news of a marching darkness, news that you simply brushed off. You then mentioned you came close to becoming a part of that darkness. Is that something you'd care to explain?"</strong><br/><br/>After Ryan gave his answers to her questions, Danielle's fingers lifted and she placed her whole hand on the brick. Her eyes began to turn white.