After having Muninn quietly return to 2 Kirk Street, Arthur felt no urgency.
The young Medium, who habitually kept something in reserve, had planted another Scout in the Harbor District.
His [Death Hound], Kuliqi.
Clever, loyal, and possessed of unusual abilities, Kuliqi would surely bring back everything he wanted to know.
So Arthur stood at the bottom of the pit and concentrated on examining his surroundings-
They were different from what he had initially imagined.
The bottom of the pit was not a hidden space excavated entirely by Horton. It also bore the distinctive marks of South Town's miners.
Besides the wooden supports unique to mining and the oil-lamp hooks spaced every three meters, there was something else that confirmed Arthur's suspicions... the bodies of miners.
Lissop used the original mine as his starting point, excavating around South Town to investigate the extent of his mineral deposits. This was an abandoned exploratory shaft...
No!
At the very least, His Lordship made excellent use of this place!
Arthur's gaze swept over the bodies.
Every corpse had broken bones and torn sinews from being struck by something heavy.
Clearly, these were victims of mining accidents.
South Town's mineral deposits attracted large numbers of outsiders. Even people who went bankrupt in South Los would choose to settle here.
Generally, no one truly cared what ultimately became of such people.
And those who did care?
Once they received some compensation, they stopped caring too.
It was not that lives could be measured in money.
It was that the living were always at money's mercy.
Of course, some refused to be swayed.
Arthur silently looked at several bodies clearly not dressed as miners.
Arthur turned his attention back to one side of the Malice Ritual's circle.
Horton had not chosen this place without reason.
He