Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5824038-20141217155427/@comment-5583506-20150201144910

"This is where I must leave", said Claire.

"What?!" exclaimed Victorius terrified.

"Wraith needs me in other places and I guess he's expecting you. I was only tasked with bringing you here", she said.

"But... will I see you again?"

She gave him a coy smile and pulled her cap further down over her face.

Must be a common habit, reflected Victorius.

"Of course you will see me again", she replied. "We are both allies of the same strange character. Our paths will cross again, but for now, head on in. I will take the northern road through the city and find myself some coastal town and await further instructions."

Victorius nodded. "Alright then. I will... wait here then, I guess?"

Claire turned around and started to walk further into the city ruins shrouded in mist. Victorius sat down on the upper parts of a destroyed clock tower and waited. There wasn't a sound to be heard anywhere, save for the wailing of the wind, howling between the cracks and gaping holes of the ruins. There was another sound as well. Footsteps, he imagined, just on the path he and Claire had taken. But as soon as he listened more intensively, they stopped and faded away.

He shrugged. "You are being silly. There are no such things as ghosts."

He waited for at least fifteen minutes and couldn't help to feel that he was being watched by someone...

"My dear Victorius!" exclaimed a booming voice from above.

He turned around and looked up, only to find Wraith standing on a broken archway. "Wraith!"

"I see Claire brought you here safely then? This is good. Come, follow me! I want you to see the fruit of our operation! And the latest changes in my master plan..."