Looks like leaving the Demoness and Red Priest cards with Him for now really did have its benefits... Even the Orthodox Churches probably kept this knowledge closely guarded, let alone unaffiliated Beyonders...
Angel let out a soft breath and carefully committed the parchment's contents to memory. Then she watched it vanish as though it had never existed.
"You may continue."
The Fool's gray-fog-shrouded figure leaned back against His chair and gave the instruction.
Audrey, Justice, was still reeling from the twin revelations that Miss Empress had obtained two Cards of Blasphemy and that they held "knowledge she couldn't use yet." She was about to speak when the Hanged Man, seated opposite her, beat her to it.
"I request a private conversation with Miss Empress."
Audrey's vision instantly went dark.
Oh, so my senses have been blocked... She opened her mouth silently, experiencing the helpless ignorance the other members had felt while she examined the Card of Blasphemy.
At the Fool's signal, Alger, the Hanged Man, suppressed his own surging curiosity and said to Angel:
"I've found out more about Mad Captain Connors Victor."
This was the arrangement Angel and Alger had made several weeks ago. He would investigate the bloody sacrifice on Sona Island and the Mad Captain's human trafficking through the Church of Storms, offsetting part of what he owed her for the Ocean Songster formula and Beyonder Characteristic.
"In late February, Mad Captain Connors brought a group of carefully selected girls aboard his One-Eyed Skull to a private harbor outside Bayam. He planned to sell them to the Red Theater. A few may also have been sent to powerful figures at the governor's residence and naval port, but the higher-ups had no intention of investigating further, so I couldn't get a list of names."
Alger recounted what he