<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/LTeUATB.jpg)</div>Vi beamed at the other woman as she accepted the skirt.  The ties of the skirt had been cut in Vi's haste, but the gesture was very sweet and endearing, so Vi swung the hoops over one shoulder, giving at least some barrier between herself and the outside wold for now.  The shrouding of her body, at least for the time being seemed to break the spell on Natia and Viviana's eyebrows perked up on hearing what she said.<br/><br/>"Come on, there isn't a moment to lose!" she said, grabbing Natia's hand with her right, while holding the skirt over her shoulder with her left. "Take me to him!"<br/><br/>Vi followed Natia with all haste, still holding onto her hand to the wing of the manor that contained Malcyn's room.  Once there, they followed the sounds of sobs like an kind of echolocation of suffering. It was a gloomy affair, but they had no time to ponder the horrors that their quarry had endured. In a relatively brief amount of time they managed to divine the source of the mournful sounds and stepped into the room.  It was a guest suite, which Vi did not expect... but the entire manor was in disarray so it stood to reason that the maid was being treated in a guest room instead of in whatever infirmary or sanitarium Casimiro had furnished his home.<br/><br/>After Natia made introductions Vi cast her hoops to the side, strode over to be in front of the doctor and squatted down so she could look up into his eyes.  "Please" she began, hoping to appeal to his chivalry, "I saw her.  I saw Anais... She had been bound, raped and strangled... they... they cut her tongue out! Who knows how long they tortured her or how many raped her?  These people MUST be brought to justice, but we need to act now before they escape!" Vi assumed that if someone was here from Montainge they must either be close to Anais or close to Casimiro so she tired that angle first.  "And Casi... Casimiro is missing!  He must be rescued from wherever they took him... maybe they are trying to extort information from him, maybe someone just wants to torture him.  If they were going to kill him, they would have done it here... or maybe whoever did this wants to drag it out!"  Vi's eyes were brimming with tears of fear "The guards don't know what to do, I saw them! They just want to keep people out of that room so people don't get scared!  What if people took his disappearance as proof that he committed this crime?  Then even if he did resurface, he would be walking right into a noose!  We need to get to that room and search for clues, but we can't do it without a doctor to examine the body. Casimiro would have done the same for any of us.  If you didn't know him, he..." she paused for just a second in her monologue "he is the most heroic man I have ever met."<br/><br/>Her appeal finished, she looked down for a few beats, composing herself.  Then she stood up and looked around.<br/><br/>"Oh, and could I borrow a shirt?"