Two's Company

* We make our way back to the Refugium with haste! 
** The plan is for Cyrus, Martha, and Signe to question Elise to see if she will tell us where Mr. Burroughs is.
* We make a huge entrance into the Refugium, we ask about Elise but no one seems to know who we’re referring to.
* Cyrus will try to lure her out but upon returning to his room he finds his door locked and blocked.
** Alec looks through the keyhole and sees a womanly figure sitting on the bed.
** Elise is very upset and refuses to open the door, we’re essentially talking her down
** Cyrus speaks through the door to her. . . he tells her they will work together to figure things out. He asks about Mr. Sorin but she doesn’t know who that is.
** She thought it was love, that’s all she wanted, she thought they were in love with her.
** Martha asks her how she knows they aren’t in love with her? Where are they?
*** Martha tells Elise she’s sending her her emotional support animal to make her feel better
** Signe tells Elise that what her and Cyrus has is beautiful and that it’ll all work out 
** The door cracks open. . . we go into an empty room.
*** There is a depression on the bed.
* Meanwhile, William and Alec hear a kerfuffle downstairs, they can hear some staff members talking, “Who is she? Why is she out there?”
** They go to a window and see a woman in the courtyard, she’s walking in the direction Cyrus was wandering off to the other day. 
*** It’s Lise Penderson!! They follow her.
* Up in the bedroom sans Elise, Cyrus, Martha, and Signe look out the window to see Alec and William hurrying after Lise. They quickly run after them.
* Lise is moving through the grounds to the edge of the garden where it’s all overgrown. 
** She comes to a well in the trees. There is a wooden cover over it, and Lise starts pulling it off. 
** Alec and William sneak closer and see Lise leaning over, looking into the darkness of the well. 
** Alec sees something out of the corner of their eye. . . 
** William carefully approaches, with each step a growing feeling of impending dread. 
*** He’s awash of all the sorrow and death of all the soldiers he’s lost.
*** He knows there’s no other option but to push forward. 
* William sees a wispy, shadowed form behind Lise, beckoning her. It looks at William. . . and moves towards him!
* Cyrus, Martha, Signe, and Wila arrive, Martha helps Alec to light the mirror.
* Cyrus hears a voice, “Please my love this way, please come to me.”
** He becomes ensorcelled and starts walking forward!
*** Wila tries to stop him. 
* The Doppelganger lunges at William!
** Signe tries to knock him out of the way but fails
** William is flooded with fear again.
* Alec rushes up with the mirror, Signe grabs William’s lighter to light the mirror.
* Wila shoots the Doppelganger with an arrow and makes it angry.
* Both Cyrus and Lise start climbing over the lip of the well!
* Alec and Signe connect the blessed mirror to the flame, angling the flame towards the Doppelganger. . . 
** We hear an ear splitting scream, and the shadowed form bursts into flame! IT’S DEAD!!!
* Cyrus recovers quickly and manages to help Lise before she falls.
* When the flames die down, all is quiet. 
* Signe shines a light down the well. . . the water fall below ripples as water drip-drip-drips from above. . . Signe’s gaze widens as she sees a city. . . wrought iron bars of a fence line, large stone burial cairns and mausoleums. Water drips, and it has a red tinge to it. . . it’s not water, and she’s in an alley. She sees bodies lying on the ground. Blood is pooling all around. Alec, William, Martha, Cyrus, Wila, and herself. . . our bodies are all torn asunder.
* Signe snaps out of it, and it’s just water again. At the bottom of the well are three corpses floating. . . They are Thomas Burroughs, Julian Archer, and Frederick August :(
* Lise Penderson regains consciousness and is reunited of sorts with her parents and her child. 
* We wrap up our investigation and head home.
* We all have really meaningful montages of what our characters do, but I didn’t write them all down :(
** Alec apologies to Martha for being hard on her sometimes, they’re just trying to help. Martha things this is odd, but looks contemplative. 
** Signe seems a bit distant and distracted. She’s pleasant and engages with people, but on her own she’s deep in thought and pensive. She's seen fiddling with her celtic knot pendant.
** Alec picks up the latest newspaper when we get home. There is a death of a high ranking member of a prominent family. . . Mr. Sorin drowned in a puddle.
*** (A bit odd, innit?)