The other mid- and Lower Sequence pirates were no concern. With Whistling Town's main fighting force still there, they stood no chance against the elves.
But their commander-in-chief, Bright Isidor, the "Sound of Soul Loss," was another matter...
A Virtual Personality lurked in his mind!
The King of the Black Throne? Was it Whistling Town's dragon worship that had drawn the former president of the Psychology Alchemists here?
Did he mean to hunt an Angel as a Sequence 3 while the Ancient Dragon was weakened?
Who gave him the courage? Adam?
Even as Abner made his dry remarks, he used Insight to piece together most of the situation. Barros Hopkins, the King of the Black Throne, was a "gift" Adam had sent him, making Fate particularly clear.
After a few seconds' thought, Abner had Alvin, who was currently in Backlund, Teleport directly into the mansion at 160 Böklund Street. There, in a third-floor bedroom, he found Klein brushing Sharron's long hair.
According to Klein, this was also necessary for his Acting as a Marionette.
And by presenting the frightening sight of someone brushing a Marionette's hair at night, he had scared several maids on night duty and further digested his Bizarro Sorcerer Potion.
Word of the eerie incident had even reached the Church's official team, but they thought little of it. After all, Miss Daly was a mid-Sequence Beyonder of the Corpse Collector Pathway, and she kept quite a few Dead Spirits around. Most likely, a maid with heightened spiritual perception had seen something she could not understand, and the story had grown in the telling.
At that moment, though, it was Klein who was startled by Alvin's sudden appearance. Only by using his Clown abilities to control his movements did he keep the comb from falling to the floor.