Watching the letter drift to the ground from one of the heads of the headless messenger Reinette Tinekerr, Angel was about to take out a gold coin to pay when all four heads shook in unison, then spoke one after another:
"That..." "Woman on the ship..." "Has already..." "Paid..."
The woman on the ship... did she mean Anne?
Angel paused, only then realizing that after delivering letters back and forth several times, Reinette had actually dared to secretly give that Balancer a nickname.
I wonder what nickname she has for me... she muttered, picking up the letter and glancing at it. To her surprise, it was from Bernadette, not Anne, who was staying in Partis, the Dream City.
"...Recently, I have continued tracking the followers of the Great Mother and Nast Solomon within Intis. I nearly caught them several times, but without the help of prophecy and divination, I always fell a step behind. All they left behind were corrupted innocents and devastated villages...
"...I suspect some of their followers possess divination abilities, or that there are Beyonders among them who can glimpse the future in the river of fate and take precautions. During one of these failed attempts to capture them, a local administrator who had failed to escape or kill himself told me about a new secret organization cooperating with Nast and his people: the School of Truth...
"...They worship a mass of pale white mist and possess the ability to make two parties sign a contract and honor their agreement to achieve their aims. I suspect this is related to the Arbiter pathway, but that pathway has no True God, and none of its three Sequence 1 characteristics are missing..."
"...However, the administrator described the appearance of the School of Truth's leader. After investigating, I believe this