After his brief excitement, Lorne quickly calmed down. A question surfaced in his mind unbidden: the Sequence name "Calamity Priest" hardly sounded auspicious. Could this Sequence really attract calamities?
After all, that Calamity Priest had indeed died in a shipwreck, and his own journey had also... Lorne recalled everything he had encountered along the way and couldn't help shuddering.
"Forget it. I'll think about that after advancing. Whatever happens, advancing and getting stronger can't be a bad thing."
He set the question aside for now and continued divining the origins of the remaining items.
In the end, he successfully identified the origins of two more characteristics. One came from the Curly-Haired Baboon that appeared to have been struck dead by lightning.
It was a Sequence 5 Mentor of Disorder of the Lawyer pathway. The other came from the corpse of a peculiar bird and belonged to a Sequence 6,
a Scribe.
Three characteristics remained unidentified after his divination attempts, but Lorne took that in stride. Divination wasn't appraisal, after all. These results were already quite good.
Since he didn't have much time and Danitz could return at any moment, he stopped investigating.
He swept all the characteristics and materials back into the Three of Diamonds' storage space, then dispelled the room's Wall of Spirituality and acted as though nothing had happened.
A little over half an hour later, Danitz returned.
"How did it go?" Lorne immediately asked.
"Not too bad." Danitz took off his coat, picked up the liquor on the table, and took a swig. "Bayam's so-called lockdown doesn't seem as serious as we thought. The Church of Storms has focused most of its efforts out at sea. Things are all right in the city. There aren't any large-scale searches or arrests."
He paused, then added, "But because of