"Tomorrow night..." Vanessa looked at Allen. "How are things in the East District?"
"The Theater is basically finished. They'll clear the site by tomorrow at the latest. My original plan was to hide inside before they finished, so I could evade the security search in the ceiling or the ventilation ducts."
Vanessa nodded. It was a fairly workable approach.
"But we need to hide inside ahead of time. We'll have to go tomorrow."
Vanessa looked at Dorothea. "That should work. Allen and I will hide inside tomorrow, and you'll attend the dinner-
"That way, neither gets held up."
"But how will I pass the information I get to you?"
Vanessa spread the Theater's blueprints out on the floor and picked up a lantern from beside her. "Let's work out a detailed plan for that."
The three gathered together and began discussing it.
That night, all three stepped onto the Altar.
Fortunately, although the Golden Tax Court's search had been rough, it had not been thorough enough. The deliberately concealed basement entrance had gone undiscovered.
The supernatural materials had therefore not been lost. Even the sack containing Wild Dog's corpse was still there. When the orphans went to Flora for help, they had not abandoned the Flatbed Cart.
Dorothea was the first to step up.
Inside the Mansion.
Elliot hesitated, then chose the lantern symbol for her second row as well.
He had quite a few considerations.
First, none of the nodes he had previously chosen for the other Believers had been repeats. Without a comparison, he had no way of knowing whether that was correct.
Perhaps repeating nodes offered a better boost?
Second, although gaining [Rationality] had been somewhat unexpected, it seemed surprisingly well suited to Dorothea.
[Rationality +1]
After Dorothea completed her sacrifice this time, she once