<div class="floatleft">(http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/0fe84147f284d5316afd2f8af8c9a87f.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Sence Lamora<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Hawks HQ<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Everyone<br/><br/>Sence was one to appreciate a good, complex plan.  After all, those were often how Camorri gamblers such as himself made their trade.  However, the shall we say 'informational session' that was presented to them by the Moogle seemed to be lacking in...oh, what was the precise word for it?  Coherence?  Adherence?  Togetherness?  Well, if it was lacking, then perhaps he could impart some of that to the conversation.<strong>"You know, not all of us have the mental acumen of a fully-fledged Wizard, thank you very much."</strong>He had chosen his moment to speak perfectly - his voice rang out clear above the silence.  Hopefully heads would turn towards him as he rose from his seat.<strong>"Some of us prefer to actually <em>work</em>, thank you, instead of shutting ourselves away in long-halled libraries pretending that reading books is difficult."</strong><br/><br/>He walked slowly, deliberately, to evoke the idea of him taking his time, hoping that his soliloquy would go uninterrupted.<strong>"Stories are grand things, they are, they're what make up the very best of lives.  And respect is to be commended to the Holy Knights of this land, but <em>really</em>?  The Darkness - as told in that long-ago written script - we are to expect that <em>it</em> is interested in the nation of Gilaud?  The Darkness is a boogeyman, a child's tale.  And if it is real, then what precisely is its goal in all this?  To steal us all away from the Goddess and have us worship it?  Because it is jealous?  That might be well and fine if the Darkness was a man, but by your telling, it is eldritch beyond understanding.  We cannot ascribe to it human motivations, because it isn't human."</strong><br/><br/>Sence waved his hand.<strong>"But enough about that.  This isn't about old stories, this is about now.  Apparently your scheming court advisor - oh, the delicious irony of all those old tales if this time it is true for <em>real!</em> - is having a funeral tomorrow, for a girl who may or may not be dead, by a mother who is under control of <em>some kind</em>, and we are to disrupt that funeral because a <em>coffin</em> is going to be used as a weapon to cause everyone present to submit to this...strange magic?  And by the way, men thought Black and Time magic was dark, too, but that's not turned out to be the case.  Though, I submit that this is the first I've heard of this 'Wither' magic, so perhaps it is the source of all evil that seems to be what the perception is."</strong>