Serching for Anserws (Part 2)

[Leytan]

[ModNote: Continued from Searching for Answers, Part 1.]

*Leytan stood in the Marketplace and looked around. No sighn of The Oriental Trader Ah Wok whom he had met and done buissness with the last time he was here.*

*He did notice a new shop had been opend. He made a mental note to check it out later. Leytan tried to decided where or who in The Market place would be the best place to start.*

[Catherine Barter]

*Catherine walked across the street her head covered in a hood. Her dress and very deep green. In her hand she carried a large handmade bag that was full of various items she had brought from some of the other stallls. She just had enough time to put everything away before the shop opened. Since the incident in the market a couple of days ago she had seen a slight quiet fall over the town. As if it anticipated something else...though rumours were strong and growing in tale about a dragon making a brief appearance in Wolfenden.*

*She lowered her hood and entered the shop..looking round the still quiet market she spied a stranger and shivered slightly and walked into the shop quickly. Feeling better at the sudden warmth.*

[ModNote: Catherine was last seen in A helping hand.]

[Leytan]

*Leytan saw Catherine enter the shop. By this time he had already quizzed a few merchents but had found them either lacking information or un-willing to part with it.*

"Hmmmm maby the new arival will be more willing to talk."

*Leytan moved towards the shop. In his black cloths and hood he looked like the Grim reaper himself.*

*Leytan enterd the shop.*

"Good Day."

*He said as he enterd the shop."

"Whom is the owner of this establishment?"

[Catherine Barter]

*Looking up from behind the counter as she placed several rarer items in the section that had a panel of glass covering it so customers could see but couldn't touch.*

I am..

*Standing up slowly her voice slightly filled with annoyance, she still hadn't yet been completely accpeted into the town. Her being female immediatly put her into the assumed role of assitant. She had looked around town and only a few females owned stalls and they mainly sold clothes. *

*Catherine shivered slightly as the tempreture dropped in the shop. She eyed the man suspisiously and wondered what he wanted.*

What can I do for you Sir?

[Leytan]

*Picks up on the annoyance in Catherine's voice.*

"Oh don't mistake the question for a snub to your athority. I have come across many female traders in my travels and have found them to be just as good as the male ones, and certainly there are less disetfully female traders then male ones."


*Bows slightly.*

"Forgive me were are my manners. I am Leytan a Soilder Of Fortune. Perhaps you have heard of me, not to boast but my reputation dose seem to preseed me in most towns and villages."

"I am in serch of some local information conserning to local ghost stories as well as to a former member of your profesion a Mr. Edward Deal. I am willing to pay for such info."

*Has a thought.*

"I am also in need of a few things as well. Some new chain mail armour as mine is getting a little freyed, and some sleeping powder if you have any."

[Catherine Barter]

*Catherine nods her had at the man as he bows.*

I can give you the armour and lseeping power you seek as for information on Edward Deal that is a rare find as many people refuse to speak his name let alone what he did.

He was here before I arrived and as far as I know died back as some waterfall near Dunn's Falls.

All I know is he was a mean piece of work..he killed a few people here before his death.

The gost stories are wide and varied from the old lady that inhabits a room of a woman's down the road to the wailing of a lady for her lost love....Some true, some false and some well are just peoples imagination...the mind is good at that...

*Catherine turns her back to Leytan.for a moment or two as she looks for a book...*

There are many rumours of ghosts that haunt the Inn owned by Dal...so many tales come from there...especially by travellers that only stop for a day or two but like to make some cash with some made up story......

Some times walls are known to replay sounds they have heard from years ago..especially if it was a regular sound....this gives have the peole there stories because it feeds their imagination...

[Leytan]

"Have you heard any concering noise from the ally way directly behind The Wolfs Howl Inn?"

"Percificaly the sound of a fight or assault?"

*Leytan inquires.*

[Catherine Barter]

*Catherine goes quiet a minute...*

A couple of times I have passed the alley late at night and heard what sounds like a fight...and assumed as such...for I haven't investigated it any further....though the laugh I once heard was cold..very cold...sent more shivers down my spine than I am feeling now...

[Leytan]

"Hmmmmmmmm"

*Leytan thinks this info over.*

"Oh sorry my dear lady but I'm affraid the atmospher kind of reacts to my presence, hence the feeling of cold you are haveing."

[Catherine Barter]

*Catherine frowns for a moment or two.*

Is there anything you wish to know?

*She wasn't sure what it was about this man but the chill he caused made her wish for the heat to return. Suddenly remembering the order he made she began to get together the armour and sleeping powder. The powers lived in a small dark brwon glass vial with a cork topper and the armour the last she had in stock hid beneath the counter almost ready to be put on display later.*

[Leytan]

"No nothing more for the moment Miss Barter."

"But I may return later if I am in need of further Suplies or Information."

*Removes a money purse from his cloke.*

"How much do I owe you for the supplies and information?"

[Catherine Barter]

*Catherine told Leytan howmuch the armour and sleeping powder was.*

I assume you know how to use the sleeping powers..wisely?

[Leytan]

"Have no fear my dear lady I am well versed in useing powder wepaons of all kinds."

*Pays for the ammour and Sleeping Powder. Bows*

"Thank you Miss Barter. I hope we can do buissnes again some day."

*Leytan departs the store.*

[Catherine Barter]

*Catherine watched him leave and felt the warmth slowly return back to her shop, She closes the door to get the heat to return more quickly.. Then wiping down the counter she took the cloth into the kitchen behind the shop itself and began to put more books out for sale.*

[Leytan]

*Leytan continued his serch for ansers in the Marketsquare, just as he was about to give up.*

{Hushed voice}

"Hey you Atlantian!!"

*Leytan looked round and saw a figure dressed in dark cloths in the shadows of an allyway nere by, Leytan went over.*

"You were adressing me?"

{Figure}

"Yes, I was. I here your looking for info on a certain Mr. Edward Deal. Am I correct in this Mr. Leytan??"

{Leytan}

"Yes you are. And just whom am I Adressing since you know my name?


{Figure}

"I'm just known as "Shadow Voice". And it's my buissness to know everything about everyone." [ModNote: SV was previously seen here.]

"For example I know that you are a wnated fugetive in over 5 diffrent relms for diffrent crimes rangeing from grand larcaney in Greenshades to War Crimes in The Netherworlds."

"Or that the owner of the shop you just visited a Miss Catherine Barter is haveing an affair with a member of Wolfenden's local nobility."


*Leytan looked at this man closely. From what Leytan could make out, He was middle ages possibaly early thirtys, had wispy brown hair, a slit of a mouth. He was dressed in pessent cloths but Leytan could see that his hands were not that of someone who was used to finer things in life. There was also the faint smell of tabacoo around him.*

"Your buissnes to know about everyone huh?"

*Leytan thought.*

"Well I sure I know just what kind of buissnes that is Shadow Voice."

{Out loud}

"So what can you tell me about Edward Deal then, Shadow Voice?"


{Shadow Voice}

"I know your looking in the wrong place for information."

{Leytan}

"Oh? Were should I be looking?"


{Shadow Voice}

"You were on the right track to begin with. His Mistress Amanda Bellingham. She's the key to the whole affair, with the Ghost and other events. You need to talk to her again."

*At this point there was a comotion of some sorts some were in the market place. Leytan turned around for a couple of seconds to look then turned back to Shadow Voice.*

"Well Thank You Mr..........."


*Shadow Voice had dissaperd. Leytan shrugged while it may be bad manners to do that he himself was guilty of doing just that to people on numurous occasions. He headed back to The Wolfs Howl to quizz Amanda agian.*


(Continued in The Wolfs Howl "Confrunting the Past.")

[ModNote: SV is later seen in Lurking.]