[There is a letter tucked into the pages here.]
Letter
Gem
[a few blots]
Experiments
Compared with Avis' gem
Quote:Dearest friend,
In the spirit of Starlight, we are distributing blessings of prosperity to all. Please accept this gemstone and think of it as a token of good fortune.
-- Sisters of the Red Lotus --
Letter
- Paper type
- Mediocre; nothing of particularly high, nor low, quality.
- Script
- Crisp, clean, immaculate - feminine touch
- Page treatments
- None
- Any residual leftovers on the page (blemishes, prints, water damage, etc)
- Nothing discernable
Gem
- Appearance
- small (palm sized)
- crimson
- engraved with what looks like a raven
- flat
- seems benign
- has no marks or blemishes; nothing implying it was once part of something else (like jewelery, etc.)
- Aether
- seems to have an Aetherical presence
- Seems to draw in outside sources of Aether
- My own appeared to be unaffected.
- Though it was traced.
- Then the gathered Aether heads off to some other location
- Attempt to follow
- Towards the Mist
- Then directionally shifted?
- Or did I get turned around?
- ... Had I been turned around this entire time?
- Location the 'threads of Aether' head towards seem to move
- perhaps
- Thus may not be a location, but something clearly mobile.
- A particular person?
- An item being moved?
- Different beacons?
[a few blots]
- When my Aether shifts it tries to avoid mine.
- Other than feather touches.
- Seems like it's trying to familiarize itself with my Aether
Experiments
- Placed it near a raven (or raven equivalent)
- Nothing occurred.
- Placed it near Aetherically potent objects
- Doesn't absorb Aether from them
- Appears to be taking in something specific, but not discernable just yet.
- Placed it near various elements
- Does not seem to have any reaction
Compared with Avis' gem
- Her gem had a book engraved into it.
- Smaller, her palm size
- Appeared to be doing the same thing as my own, save for I could not feel the 'touch' from hers, nor could she feel any 'touch' herself.
- We briefly exchanged them and nothing malicious happened.
- Though we got the sense that they were made particularly for us, given her gem did not seem to react to me.
- Avis also received a letter.
- seems to be the same.
- Why in the hells did we both get these?
- She was unaware that I had also gotten one until she came to me to ask about hers.
