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After a long shift disinfecting the showers at Gorsky Manor, you retrieve an entire gallon of chicken noodle soup from the kitchen and knock on Elton's door. You raise the subject as a fire crackles in the fireplace and the oil painting of Katherine watches you eat.

"Do you have anything of theirs?" the theurge asks.

You came prepared, and you pull out the deer figurine.

"Don't let anyone see this," Elton says immediately. "This is Indigenous Garou material culture. Melodie considers it her job to round up these artifacts to prevent anthropologists from asking questions that can't be answered without learning about werewolves."

"But what is it, exactly?" you ask.

"Pack spirit," Elton says. "I doubt the Stormcat would tolerate competition in that regard, but what you can do is take this artifact to Nin's woods and give it a place of honor there. That will permit us to perform more chiminage and gain more authority over the local spirits."

That's useful, but…

"What about the Deer Cross pack?" you ask. "Is there anything else we can do, or learn?"

"The simple fact of the matter, Stonegrowl," Elton says, "is that the Deer Cross Pack died, and apart from what you found, there's not really anything left of them. No ancestral spirits, no talismans, no caern." He spreads his hands in a helpless gesture. "That's how it happens sometimes. This is the Apocalypse. This is the destruction of the Wyrm, from which nothing new grows. The Deer Cross Pack is gone. I'm sorry."

The rest of your meal is somber as you turn the figurine over in your hands.

I buy a laptop.

I pay some money to keep the cops off my trail.

I need to buy more clothes. I go shopping.

What else can I learn about the "Neo-Albion" group that guarded Everlite?

I ask Melodie how we can repair those brick prisons we saw in Hadley.

I head back to the cabin and see how Podge is settling in.

I see if I can track down Nin.

I text Nomi about that date.

I find Roscoe's van.

I visit Hobland at his compound.

I visit Lucinda at her studio.

I head into the deep woods.

I return to the barrows.

I head to the urban blight.

I check my phone.

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