An Island Apart

* It’s now early evening after the investigators visit with Mr. Sommerland
* We decide to wait until morning to look around the grounds.
* Jefferey the Refigium’s Head of House tends to us. He takes us up to the rooms.
	+ The other two rooms have been cleaned and the belongings of the two other men have been sent back to their families.
	+ Burrow’s room is still untouched, all his belongings are still there.
		- It’s the 2nd door on the left (there are 2 keys)
		- It is wired for “hob & tube”
		- Lots of writing materials, papers/drafts, ink.
		- He appears to be writing a novel about what it’s like to be a New Yorker.
			* Alec can tell it’s a mediocre piece of work
		- Hiking boots/jacket are in the room still
		- On the nightstand are drafted letters to his parents, and fiance Janine.
			* They are all incomplete
		- Under the bed is an attache case with more manuscripts, and random ideas.
* Cyrus consults his crystal ball and gets a feeling of love and is drawn towards the nightstand.
* Signe pulls out her magnifying glass to investigate the unfinished letters:
	+ There is apprehension in the writing
	+ There is no feeling of unrequited love from Janine, he’s very kind.
	+ The parents’ letters are formal.
* Alec looks at the attache case and determines it’s something he would take with him while on a walk.
	+ There is a lot of inspiration from scenery.
	+ “A woman”, “romantic/tryst scene”.
	+ Alec posits that maybe he met a woman and was about to break it off with Janine (hence the apprehension in his words)
	+ Cyrus points out it’s possible this “woman” is a Vaesen.
* Martha asks Jefferey if there are any women staff members who he showed interest in? There were none.
* Martha looks at his hiking attire and knows it’s well made, well maintained, and cleaned of dirt.
* Jefferey says there’s little chance someone on the staff did not see him leave
	+ Burrow’s took walks several times a day.
	+ He was last seen at dinner six nights ago
	+ He seems in a good mood, confident, was writing less letters, seemed more tired in the morning
* Alec looks into the Libro Invisibilia to check for seductive Vaesen: siren, woman in white, willow wisp, ash tree wife. . .
* Martha focuses on Burrow’s clothing and investigates his jacket.
	+ No dirt, it hasn’t been worn in some time.
	+ It’s very odd that he didn’t take his jacket.
* Cliffs, the moores, beach meadow, the mill are all places he could have walked
* Signe uses her sixth sense. . . if he’s being seduced it’s not by a Vaesen or magic being used
	+ At least not in the writings about “the woman”
* Jefferey does confirm that some of the staff say that Burrows was talking about a milk maid, who works at the miller.
* We ask about the other two men:
	+ Mr. Archer worked late into the night, was tired in the morning
	+ Mr. August was more quiet before “the end”, very protective of his work
	+ We look in his room.
		- Martha gets Eddie the Raven to help look for clues
		- Alec looks for any hidden poetry (since he was so secret), and uses a piece of paper a for a rubbing on the desk
			* Finds a topic of love in his poetry.
			* Cyrus checks with the spirits again, and there is the same kind of love coming from the desk
* Cyrus tells us it’s possible Burrow’s apprehension of finding a new love is the same love being written about in the poetry of August.