“Maaybe…” Kathlin said slowly as she scanned the pages. Getting up, she moved over to the dwarf to push the book under his nose open at the relevant page. “Look at this. Lord Alfidious wanted to investigate this South Sea company the White Hand are involved with. It talks about these two dwarfs, Dagmar and Brann Stoneherder. Do you know them?”

Ragnar gave her a funny look, before squinting down at the pages. “Do ye know all tha humans in Stormwind, Lass? No. I heard of them though, stand up chaps. Would ne’ have thought they’d throw their lot in with tha likes of tha lilies, pfft…”

“I can see why Mister Alfidious was interested. These financial records look weird, if they’re right” Kathlin observed as she trailed a finger along the page. “This says that the White Hand are bankrupt. I thought they had enough to build a castle”

“….”

“We need to show this to Lady Rosemary” Kathlin said decisively after a long pause. Closing the diary and sliding it into her pocket, she shot Dagmar an appealing look. “….We can’t let her hire these guys as bodyguards if they might have been involved in her husbands death somehow. And...even if not, whatever’s up with these records, Adolph was clearly trying to cover it up somehow which is really,[i] really [/i]dodgy”

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“Ah” Liaena said weakly as Rae’liel started to speak about her family, and then just to drive the knife in deeper, produced the rings. The girls eyes flitted towards the door, even as she kept the carefully controlled expression sculpted on her face.[i] “I need to not be here”[/i]

“…How did you two come to meet?”

“…”

[i]“Help”[/i]

The girl’s expression appeared to become even more fixed for a moment, before instantly recovering herself as she started to launch into a story. “Well, actually –“
It was to Liaena’s vast relief that Falaani picked that exact moment to butt in as the Night Elf swaggered off, not before cracking her head on the unfortunately placed doorway. The girls lips quirked back at Sharon as the High Elf stuck his head around the door to make a flippant remark. “Best bodyguards. She definitely killed that door for you, Sharon”

“….Either way, there’s something I need to get on with so I’m going to go do that, okay Sharon?” the girl said swiftly, before Rae’liel could say anything else, or start trying to talk to her again. Liaena edged around Sharon, patting his hand for a moment as she headed for the door. “You –“ this was to Rae’liel – “should get some bed rest, don’t use that arm for a while and don’t start another fight. Sharon…I’ll deal with what we talked about. Okay?”

Whether it was okay or not, the human did not stick around to find out as the door shut with a click. Liaena headed down the stairs, back into the main body of the house.