#tahirah: yeah i know beheading's a thing but i'm sure there's a more...theatrical death appropriate for her?

[bravelywego]

The others nodded in understanding of Saiphs' explanation. As Edea explained why she came here, Kamiizumi nodded in understanding. "I agree, we should check on DeRosa..."

Nuriel looked toward Loreley. "Can we talk, just the two of us? I'd like to discuss some other plans while you're here..."

Loreley nodded. "Of course, but - what about the Countess...?"

"My godfather's in the library." Tahirah beamed at her. "I'll be fine."

The group (minus Nuriel and Loreley) made their way to the library. Inside, DeRosa had several books open on a table with him just looking between all of them. Kamiizumi wasn't sure what the hell DeRosa had gotten him into, and he looked up at Tahirah.

"What exactly did you make him do while we were gone?"

Tahirah shrugged. "He's very similar to a certain friend of mine - he gets really restless if he doesn't have something super-focus on, so I gave him the task of looking through the entire history of what we know of the dragon people preceding our current events to see if he found anything useful."

The Red Mage gazed up at the group to see Kamiizumi, Tahirah, Edea, and the others, smiling lightly at seeing Kamiizumi. "You got back much sooner than I hoped, and fortunately I'm not dead of boredom~" He tilted his head to the side. "So, did you find DeRogna and kill her yet?"

"No." Kamiizumi stated. "She wasn't at the base that Lena, Nadine and I investigated."

A sigh left DeRosa after. "Hopefully Geist killed her for me if he found her. Maybe he can bring back her head and put it on display for everyone to see!" He then looked between Edea and Kamiizumi. "And the Grand Marshal's here because...?"

"She wanted to help out and the situation increasingly has more ties to Luxendarc."

"Makes sense."

Tahirah chuckled sheepishly. "I'm sure that beheading and displaying the head would strike fear in the enemy. But if we're actually executing her, I'd like to think we can top that somehow."

A strawberry-blonde woman in obvious knight armor approached, dumping three more books on the table. "Found the rest of your books for you, DeRosa. This is all we've got left."

"I hope they have something useful, thank you." DeRosa flipped open one of them, casually looking through the pages.

Tahirah smiled at the knight, then the others. "I'd like to introduce you to knight captain of Melodia Castle, Quinn."

Quinn bowed politely as she faced the group. "Good to meet you..."

[ A Little Fright ]