Ep. 126 Plumb the Pockets Chapter Four (C2)

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Ep. 126 Plumb the Pockets Chapter Four

—Erys

Milo and Hob have a heart-to-heart about what was revealed about Kylie. Reynard finds evidence of someone having searched his apartment. At the Cauldron, Erys and Olive awkwardly work in the same area. Olive borrows Tasha to test her arm device, which goes well. She and Erys eventually open up to each other about how they feel regarding the Boromars, and Erys's involvement with them.

At the Four Sails, Verla questions Hob about Ignacio's murder. He tells her a mostly truthful story, sticking to Milo's version with Cash and Khyber, but pretends to not know who Ignacio is.

The team meets up at Reynard's place, and Erys grudgingly asks if they need to take this to Saidan.

## Synopsis

Milo has just told Hob what Cassian told him after they got out of Khyber. This new information doesn't make Hob completely confident that Cassian was being truthful about the timelines. Milo says sometimes his magic doesn't work the way he intends; he wanted to set Jason on fire like he did to Kylie, but it went very differently than he thought it would. He's worried that his connection to Xoriat will make him go mad. Hob says he won't let him hurt their friends, but he won't kill him; he'll stop him. Milo says his connection to this Kylie gives him some sort of hope. If that world has a daughter, with no father…he puts a stop to that thought process and comes back around to Xoriat. Hob starts his bike again.

Reynard heads back to his apartment. Checking around, he can tell something is just a little off, like somebody has been searching and tried to put things back where they were. He gets on the sending stones and tells them someone has been in the apartment.

At the Cauldron, Olive has wheeled over the elemental dragonshard catcher from Milhatch Industries and is tinkering with it. She wants to get it where she can pull through a non-sentient creature, to be able to ethically use it. Erys is focusing on Iggrik. She considers Olive's silence as worse than if she'd had harsh words with her.

Olive, a shade more chipper than usual in an attempt to move past the awkwardness, tells Erys she wants to do some tests on the chassis to control the arms and wants to borrow Tasha for a safe test run. Erys takes the dragonshard out of Tasha's chassis and offers it to Olive, arm fully extended. Olive, not really engaging, takes it and says she'll bring her back after the test. Olive goes up the metal stairs and inserts the dragonshard into the slit. As soon as Tasha is settled, it begins to glow an electric blue down the back side and down the arms. Olive climbs in, and the chassis tightens around her. The arms come down off of the support straps and begin to move freely. It's as if Tasha is looking around, like she can see through the arms. Olive can sense Tasha—not with words, but like they're sharing her brain. As she explains it, one of the arms looks to Erys, and another waves. Olive thinks it's Tasha saying hello.

Olive takes Tasha out and gives her back to Erys. When back inside her hawk body, Tasha does an excited barrel-roll and flies over to the chasis to take a look.

Olive tells Erys she's not bothered by what she heard. Erys doesn't understand not wanting to run away from it—*she* does. It's not like Olive is living the best life, having hidden from a person who wants to murder her. She doesn't *like* Erys's job, but she's not going to run from her for doing it. She says if Erys ever wants to leave the Clan, maybe they can figure something out.

Erys tells Olive about the attack on the Milhatch lab, and some of the other things they did.

That's when Reynard's communicator goes off, saying someone was in his apartment and Arthur is missing. Hob and Milo pull up to the Four Sails. Erys covers Iggrik with a tarp, who teaches up and pulls it off. She puts it back on, and heads towards Reynard's apartment.

Hob and Milo arrive at the Four Sails; Arthur is lounging on break, and Ulfen behind the bar. At one of the tables with a notebook is Verla. She asks to talk to Hob alone. After he's seated, she taps a rock on the table, and the noise around them quiets down. She asks where he was three nights ago. He tells her he was in Khyber on a job for Cash, and made thirty gold. She asks if he knows who Ignacio d'Thuranni is, and Hob feigned ignorance. Verla says she'll be upfront with him, and tells him about her investigation. The descriptions of people at the scene even matched Hob's tattoos, and with all this evidence, she thinks Hob isn't being honest about knowing Ignacio. Hob insists he doesn't know him, and in a much colder manner than it started, Verla leaves. Arthur plops down next to Hob and thwacks his tail.

Erys arrives first at Reynard's place, and informs everyone over sending stones. She proceeds to be confused on why Reynard is still in there if someone has been invading the place, and suggests it should be set afire instead.

Hob checks his wristwatch, thinking about the dagger. He sense it to the upper north.

Erys lets out an exasperated sigh and goes into the apartment, scarf up and goggles down. She scans the place with her magical goggles, but doesn't find anything other than evidence of it being searched. She suggests Verla might have been there, so Hob shares about his conversation in the Four Sails.

Erys is angry that the Boromars aren't covering for them—what's the point in being affiliated with the Clan if they're not gonna protect them? Mil checks around for magic, and finds traces of concealment spells.

*"So what I'm saying is—and I hate that I'm saying it—do we need to go talk to Saidan?"
—Erys*

End of episode.

## Locations

* The Cauldron
* Reynard's apartment

## Quotes

"Have I ever seen Verla and Arthur in the same room?"
"She literally handed you Arthur."
"So, a 'yes' would have been the answer."
*—Trevor and Eric0:18:14*

"Someone has been in my apartment. My flat. I call it a flat; I'm British. I'm fake British."
*—Trevor0:19:41*

"I guess Erys heads towards Reynard's apartment."
"What a sentence Philip never thought he would say."
*—Philip and Eric*