After Marishka left the meeting with Faye and Dawson she returned to the relative sanctuary of her office in the Parthenon. Brushing through the door she headed straight for the false wall. Before she got there however, the tightly wound scroll on the corner of her desk caught her eye. Glancing down her frown deepened when she saw the ribbon around it was black and there was no seal on the scroll. Picking it up she stepped behind the false wall. Emerging a few minutes later her demeanor had changed drastically. It was time to take action, things had to be drawn together and lives needed to be changed before more lives than necessary were altered beyond that which even she could repair.

“Computer, set my communications to do not disturb mode until further notice and my door also. Set my lighting to Twilight mode.”

She waited until the computer obeyed before taking a small gem in the shape of a triangular lozenge from a drawer in her desk and casually tossing it at the wall. A hood spread beneath the gem creating a pool of Shadow beneath it. Marishka knew soon, Khabal would be there. Sighing she sat down in the newly appointed couch and waited. Sometimes redecorating was a good thing.

• Marishka