Crescent Alliance - Episode 24
Episode 24: Unseen
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Episode 24: Unseen
Maion
Dinner was amazing. Brutus always made a great simple-yet-satisfying meal. I brought Cassandra up to speed about the airplane crash and my trip into the Sphere of Shadows. And for about five minutes, the nostalgia of the years I’d spent with these two resurfaced and I had to swallow the lump in my throat a few times behind my food.
These two had always been rough-around-the-edge hard-asses, which was endearing to me, but Cassandra’s constant lessons about not getting too close had frayed my heart more than I anticipated, so I added more bricks to the wall around it. Right next to the bricks I stacked from Julian and Dean. All the while, I had to pretend none of this affected me.
Once we finished eating, the three of us congregated around the fireplace to review the research and study the engravings on the Shadow Veil. Cassandra started by doing a rubbing of both sides of the disk, then made her annotations on those pages to reference her notes she made on other pages. She did her usual diving into a project, so Brutus and I nursed our beers. Seems we both knew how she could immerse herself in a thing and shut out the world.
“So, are you going to tell me what the heck happened?” I pointed to his eyepatch and the cane he had leaning against his armchair, then laced my fingers across my stomach as I leaned back to relax.