That night, Abner laid out the main and supplementary ingredients on his bedroom table: "the complete brain of a Finks Lion," "the Brilliant Five-Colored Stone," "an ordinary leaf from a Treefolk Mentor," "the blood of a Finks Lion," "the five petals of a Dragonblood Five-Colored Flower," and "water from the Lenburg Fountain of Wisdom." He stared at them, lost in thought over what Roselle had said through Lion Leon at dinner.
Why tell me the incantation to activate the "Moon" card? Is he certain I'll get it?
There are things I don't remember, but I do know that, besides bearing a portrait of Roselle dressed as a woman, the card should be contaminated... Most likely by the Primordial Moon!
Is he trying to set me up, or does he have something else in mind?
And the "Silver Moon Plan"... Silver Moon. I remember Lilith's Ring once summoned a bright, silvery moon in the original story... Could it mean her?
I just don't know whether the plan is meant to help Lilith deal with the Primordial Moon, or to target Lilith herself...
Ugh, didn't Roselle hate the way Seers talked? How did he turn into a riddle-spouting nuisance too? If you can't beat them, join them?
As Abner silently accused Roselle of picking up a bad habit, someone knocked on his door. He came back to himself and was about to ask who it was when Closia appeared before him.
She glanced at Abner and the assorted ingredients on the table, then teased him with a smile. "I never thought you'd invite a married woman like me to meet you in your bedroom at midnight."
Abner had visited Closia at the villa in Dock Borough that afternoon. Besides telling her about the changes in the Nightmare Ruins, he had asked her