" hesaid, curling his finger to beckon Nathan inside.They'd only been moved in for a day, but already Nathan couldn'trecognise the room after what the...'d done to it. A corkboard had beenmounted to the eastern wall, with various swatches of fabric fastened toit. Two metal racks had been put up alongside it, filled with odd andexotic clothing. A fuzzy tiger costume rested limply on one hanger, and asuit coat and pants draped down another. Along the opposite wall were afew pictures of men and. It is as good a guess as the next."They had booked seats to fly to Germany, the tickets were found on the corpus delicti, and had checked out of their hotel. We assume further that the encrypted wire they sent to Berlin informed their superiors of their success. Within hours, Berlin knew the agents had been killed and the spoils were missing. The search recommenced."The new searchers were looking for a young man with heavy luggage, traveling alone. They were unaware of the woman."The trail is. I had no idea if “animals from an elemental plane who were otherwise totally normal in the context of that plane” counted as “magical” for the purposes of that spell, but it was worth a shot. Other than excitedly pointing out that our potions were, in fact, magic, she reported there were no magical objects in our vicinity.So we had some time to kill while Voss regained voluntarily control of his body and the numbness in Katriana’s sword hand went away. We used the time to get our facts. ’ Therese looked happier at the thought Sorley knew more of her friend’s life. ‘It grieves me tae tell ye this Lady Therese, but Logan was killed, as well as Arabella’s father, in a battle wi’ the Campbell’s. They lost Duart tae them. Her mother died of consumption no long before that. She’s had a rough go of things, she has. She’s the Chieftess noo of Tioram and she’s been a grand one at that. Grayson is at Castle Camus on Skye, but they share the duties t’gether and ha’e made the MacDonald’s.