Thinking It Over

Devotion and Ysmir woke up in the middle of the night, their minds fresh with tons of new information. Ghostwhisper was still dormant at the moment, most likely recovering from repairing Devotion's Qi Reserve.

"Wow." Devotion said, after some silence.

"Yeah. Did not expect that." Ysmir responded. "What the hell do we do?"

"I was hoping you had some more insights than I did." Devotion said. "Still, I'm just left with so many more reservations about both of them. Yes, Ghostwhisper is a right asshole, no doubt about that, but I never had doubts about the Duke. Now I do. There's too many things that don't quite make sense. Particularly, how they died."

"Yes. I'm still thinking about what Ghostwhisper said. Or Merem, as the Duke kept calling him. Is that his real name?" Ysmir guessed.