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While Kosara didn't show it, she recognized the name Asmodeus right away and it gave her a cause for concern." I was right to say this was serious after all." She stated though with flat voice as they headed to the basement." We are dealing with a king of hell levels of demon here." Quickly said to Abe." If Asmodeus gets a hosts into our world things will be bad and I'm not sure we will be able to deal with it. That said we better not let it go to that point."

"Not his girlfriend smoke for brains. I'm his niece." Kosara corrected the demon right away and unsheathed her sword also reaching for the holy water with which she poured some on the metal." You see those upstairs aren't really versed in this. They are sort of new, but I..." She said with devilish flames dancing in her eyes as she slid the tip of the consacrated sword across the man's cheek." I have experience with dealing with demons. Now now don't worry. I will be exorcising you in the end, but first we will have some talk to be done." She said and started spraying the demon with drops of holy water." Now I know you bastards love the hard way so I won't even ask if you wish to do it easy." She added and directly then splashed more water into the demon's face." You can speak whenever you feel like it. I want to know about Asmodeus and if he's in this world or have yet to manifest beyond hell."

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Harry put down his notebook and pen when he heard that last story. What the hell. A haunted silver mine was nothing unusual. Any spent mine lent itself towards having ghost stories surrounding it. It would have been more odd had it not been rumored to be haunted, even by just the local kids. But some sort of Elder God or great demon sleeping under the lake that needed five artifacts to awaken? That was way too specific to not set off every single red flag in his head.

"First, I'd like to know more about this silver mine. Is there more to that story?" As much as every fiber of his being screamed that he should dig deeper into that last story, there was a small, but unignorable part of him that said that there was more to be done. He couldn't quite say why, or even think so at the moment, but he knew that the silver mine also played into this whole mess. It was a wordless feeling, but one he had to pursue. But he wasn't going to leave this building until he could get every bit of information possibly from this woman.

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"That's a tough question." Heather started. How much did she want to tell Robin? Heather took a deep shaky breath. "How about you come over for some tea and we'll do a proper catch-up later? I want to focus on this." She pointed up at the city hall.

Once Robin had parked Heather got out of the Dancing Queen and headed inside the City hall. She looked for someone who could give her directions, a woman about her age behind the reception desk, and asked "Where could I find records about property owning history?"

"The archives room will have deeds to past ownership of buildings and property."

"Thank you." Heather smiled and went into the room the woman had indicated. "Okay, the older records are probably what we want. Anything on that house or Sigfried." She told Robin.

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Jenna sighed. She missed Finley - just slightly. But Lydia would do - and she figured with time, she could train her cousin in the ways of investigation. "We know what he looks like, so we go down to City Hall and look through old yearbooks and other town records publications. Eventually, we should be able to find an image of the guy. Of course, we can also ask employers in the area if any of their employees have been acting odd lately - dodging calls, not showing up to work, stuff like that," Jenna reasoned. "Worst case scenario, we snap a picture of the demon in the basement and show it around."

When Abe suggested the library, Jenna nodded. She whistled for Tony and the dog came running. "Come on, let's go then," she said, zipping up her hoodie. She turned to see that Robert had come out of hiding. "Well, visual memory is only about 60% accurate and degrades over time. So we're better off trying the library to find an ID on the guy, Mayor's house after that. Unless one of you two is an aspiring sketch artist, of course."

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Lydia just nodded along with Abe's suggestion of the library, it did make more sense then the original idea of going to the mayor's house and looking around there. The library probably had more information on things, and so she was willing to go and see what they could find out. She also didn't really knew what she was doing, and was glad that Jenna seemed to have a decent idea of things, as long as they managed to get the information.

She hadn't even notice that Robert had gone back into hiding until he had spoken up after Abe and Kosara moved away from them to the basement. He seemed a little scared of the pair or something, but she decided not to question it. "Yup, library's our best bet, if we went to the house first, we might not know exactly what sort of info we'd need, library probably has a lot more that we could use," she said, heading towards the front door now.

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@Dragoknighte "It's supposedly one of the meeting places where the Satanists always met, it was the most unlikely place to have a meeting like that if you ask me." Halsey said as she rubbed her neck for a moment and then slowly shook her head, that was about all that she knew of the place. "But it is still under our former mayor's name he bought it again several years ago, that's about all that I know i'm sorry." Halsey said, as she got up and heard the small bell on the door ring looking over towards Harry. "Give me a few seconds." Halsey said as she got up, and made her way towards the main part of the store to tend to the customer, if Harry looked around there were several old and dusty looking books. One thing would catch his eye it was in a small display case on the other end of the room.

@FantasyChic "Of course." Declan said towards Finley as he turned and started to ride the horse with Finley in tow back over towards her house. He decided to take the more scenic route and moved through the woods, it was a rather quick ride directly over towards Finley's house and then climbed off of the horse and offered to help Finley as well. "Of course." Declan said towards Finley and gave her a smile, but then thought for a moment before moving over towards her. "Would you like to hang out or something for a little bit?" Declan offered, figuring that she could use the company as well.

@Kirah@McHaggis&@Morose@BlueSky44 Heather and Robin when they entered the archives room for the townhall/library the room was just as dusty as it was. As Robin looked through the addresses, he would be able to find the house in a rather very old picture and it was under better condition than it was now currently when they visited the house just a few moments prior. And Heather would eventually find a man named Siegfried Seoh, there was a very old birth certificate as well, dated all the way back to October 31st 1745. And the two of you weren't alone either Jenna, Lydia and Robert would see The Dancing Queen in front of the townhall. Jenna would see Andrew's face again just outside of the townhall before disappearing once more inside the building itself.

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Olivia caught Miranda blushing at her and gave her a slight smile for a moment as she drove her back towards Miranda's place as she leaned back in the car seat. "I don't mind at all." Olivia said towards Miranda as she continued to drive, she decided to roll down the window to get a little bit of fresh air. Then they got back to Miranda's place and gave her a smile when she unlocked the door, and proceeded to get out of the car letting her friend lock up. "Some water would be perfect if that's alright with you?" Olivia asked as she made her way towards Miranda's door.

Once she unlocked the door Olivia stepped inside and then looked around before making her way over towards the kitchen and pulled up a seat at the table. Olivia sighed slightly as she leaned forward and ran a hand through her hair and looked at her friend, she didn't want to see Miranda hurt if they continued to search around for Riley. "Do you think we should call the cops about the house again or something?" Olivia asked looking over towards her friend.

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Abraham walked patiently as he paced around the room as he eyed Kosara and Siegfried as she interrogated the demon, he listened to Kosara when she give him a brief description of Asmodeus. If he was one of the kings of hell it would certainly make things much worse for the world if he was released into the world. "Then we wont let that happen at all." Abraham said towards Kosara giving her a slight smile.

Abe reached for his cane and pulled out his own sword as well just in case something did happen. Siegfried's eyes turned a very dark black and let out a rather loud and pained hiss towards Kosara. "Ahh so you two are into the whole incest thing, that's pretty nasty." Siegfried taunted Kosara and then let out a rather loud howl in pain when she splashed holy water directly onto his face, as he felt his skin start to sizzle and burn.

"Just answer her questions and we can end this very quickly." Abe said as he watched Kosara do his thing, the room shook slightly as the demon started to get angrier and stepped a bit further away from her while still being in the devil's trap. "When I get out of here i'll make you two squeal like the little piggies you are." Siegfried said giving Kosara a deathly stare directed towards her.

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"Sure, sure you're free to speak and express opinions." She stated after the pain was passing through and listening to him go on a rather impresive, well not really, speach. She had to admit it, if nothing else demons were arrogant to the bones well smoke. There were few things more "impressive" than a demon acting all mighty when he was caught and about to experience a lot of bad things that few people could imagine. Still Kosara looked at him with a pure friendly and amused smile. She spashed the holy water directly into his face again as to make sure it goes into his mouth while he was yapping his gums off." You done? Did that burn your tongue?" She asked with a smile.

"You could do so, if you get free that is." The huntress stated with a shrug and threw a look at Abe." Seems we have a smart and stubborn guy here." She added and stabbed his leg with her sword and then moved the sword about to cause maximum pain before pulling the blade away and then pouring holy water onto the wound.

"Look buddy, you aren't the first demon I've met. I'm not afraid of you fella, your boss maybe, but you certainly not." She stated and stabbed the other leg in the same manner she did the previous one." I do not feel remourse or regret in doing this so I can go for quite a while. If you prefer different kind of torture I can also quite well peel your skin or start cutting chunks off your body until nothing remains. Might go through all of those actually, once more feel freely to talk whenever you think that cooperating is good!"

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Finley debated. She wanted to spend time with Declan, but would that be the best here and now? "Not sure how my grandparents would feel about me bringing a boy home, but I guess it should be ok. They know you, after all." And, hopefully, her grandparents would stay quiet and not make a big deal about this.

Finley entered her home, looking around to see where her grandparents were. "Grandma? Grandpa? I'm home! I brought Declan with me, we were going to hang out in my room, if that's ok?" Waiting for an answer, she faced Declan, offering a shrug. She wouldn't admit it, but she was feeling a bit nervous having him over. It had been a while since he last hung out with her and this was way before it was ever noticeable she was a girl.

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"Sounds like a good idea, we should see who currently owns the house." Heather agreed and dug through her chosen records until she found the birth certificate. "This might be the guy. We can use the name at least as a starting point. I want to see if I can find a picture of him. Maybe school records, yearbooks would be a good place to look." She showed Robin the birth certificate. Her hands were now dry from the dust and paper, but it was a relaxing chore. "I'll do that and you check the house records against this name, and anytime 15 years after 1745, so 1760 forward. It is unlikely he had the house in his name before that. Does it seem weird his birthday is Halloween?"

Heather looked up as two girls walked in. She hadn't expected anyone else to show up here, considering the state of the records. She recognized both of them from around town but didn't know them very well. She thought she had seen one of them with Abraham before, but couldn't be certain. The red-haired girl she knew she had seen busking before. "Uh, hi." She smiled.

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Halsey kept apologizing for her lack of knowledge. It was a detail Harry couldn't stop himself from picking up. He doubted that it was all that significant a fact, but it was still kind of annoying, especially since he was half sure that she had uttered that exact same phrase just a few minutes prior. But the rest of the information appeared to be rather spot on. Seemed that everything in this town tied into this so called satanic cult and by extension the Ryders, Johnsons and a few other key families.

Now left to his own devices, Harry idly looked around the room. Given what kind of store this woman ran, he wasn't all too surprised by the furnishings. That thing though. Call it intuition, but he was pretty sure it was one of the keys to that legend that Halsey had mentioned. Realizing that he hadn't recording the last section of the conversation, the PI picked up his notebook and quickly scribbled down the thing about the mines. Speaking of which, it made sense to him why they'd pick a place like that. It's detached from the main town. If a cult wants to conduct itself in secret a mine at night was the obvious place.

Done with catching up on his note taking, Harry approached the display case and sketched out the object. He needed a record of it if he were going to try asking others about this. His artistry skills were nowhere near professional, but since it was mostly a runic kind of symbol, he could get something down that looked close enough. He flipped over to a blank page before picking up the case to get a better look at the thing. Part of him wanted to open it up and handle it directly, but he was cautious enough to realize that was a bad idea. It'd be all too easy to accidentally ruin it since he didn't know what it actually was. The fact that it was in a case was evidence enough that it was relatively fragile/

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The library was a rather small building in Jenna's opinion, but people still parked out in front of it. In her mind, they usually were going more towards town hall and the other attractions than actually intending to check out a book. She recognized the car outside however - the Dancing Queen. It was hard to miss that car, but easy to spot it and recognize it. At least Finley and the others didn't seem to be nearby - that was a relief for her. It was easier to avoid people when they weren't in the same area. And then hopefully, easier to disappear from Red Lake for good and start a new life as a P.I.

Jenna gave Andrew a bit of a wave as she spotted him, before she headed into the building. "I haven't mentioned it, but I can see ghosts," she informed her cousin quietly. She glanced up as the girl said hello to them, just nodding as she went over to the records that would contain photographs, pulling them and flipping through them quickly. She doubted that the man would have Sigfreid listed as his legal name, but she checked the S's anyways before flipping through the rest of each section.

Hopefully, the two strangers in the records room would leave soon. She didn't want to see them around. It'd make it harder to talk about all of this and Jenna was a private person as it was.

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Lydia just followed after Jenna, still not too positive as to what they were doing, but the information that Jenna and the others were after probably would be at the library or something. She figured that the least she could do was try and help them out, since this sounded like it would be a matter of life or death at this point, since it involved Riley in some way. The girl who she had never met, but seemed to be a major player in whatever the hell was going on.

"Wait, you can what now? See ghosts? And you are just mentioning this now Jenna?" Lydia whispered back, her eyes growing wide when she heard that. It was a little freaky to even think about that, but considering the way the rest of her week has gone, she probably shouldn't be too surprised as she followed after her cousin. They needed to figure this out, or at least what was going on, and she noticed the others in the room as well, but she didn't really pay any attention to them.

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@Dragoknighte A few seconds later Halsey had finished dealing with a customer as she walked back into the section of the store that she had called home. She eyed Harry for a moment when he picked up the small display case, and approached him before speaking up. "Ah that old thing, it's been with my family for years." She said as she gave Harry a slight smile before moving over to a small drawer as he drew the small thing in his notebook. She took a small key and unlocked it, it was connected to a small iron chain that it was a small necklace attached to the runic symbol as well and handed it over towards Harry. "You can take it if it interests you." Halsey said offering it towards Harry.

@FantasyChic Finley's grandparents were out in the backyard talking, when they both entered her grandfather came in when she called for them. "It's fine, just no kissing or whatever you kids are gonna do." He said as he grabbed himself a glass of water before heading back outside before calling out. "Dinner will be ready in about thirty minutes." He said before closing the backdoor, Declan looked towards Finley. "Seems he's fine with it." He said as he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck and looked at Finley for a moment waiting for her to lead the way up to her bedroom.

@Kirah@McHaggis&@Morose@BlueSky44 The demon's name was indeed Siegfried Seoh once Jenna started to look at them, she would still see Andrew in the corner of her eye hovering over her when she searched for the demon's name. "That is his name, the guy I did the deal with, give me a second." He said as the temperature in the room got a lot colder Jenna as Robert remained fairly close to Lydia and then looked at the other two that were in the room and waved towards them. Before Andrew finally appeared in front of the four kids that are in the room, his body was very transparent, and the door closed behind them then there was a bit of condensation on the window as he turned towards the window and started to draw the same symbol on the window before the temperature of the room went to normal and the door slowly opened again.

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Olivia leaned back in the seat as she took a drink from the glass of water once Miranda gave it to her and smiled shyly for a moment as she rubbed the back of her neck and nodded slightly. If they turned to the police on what they found it might look like it was suspicious towards them. "Your probably right we might end up getting in trouble for it or something." Olivia said letting out a slight sigh as she took another drink from the water and then looked out towards the window as she started to think about what to do now exactly they found some information on the house and that Riley was still possibly alive.

Olivia then looked towards Miranda and shrugged slightly she wasn't even sure what to think who would want to take Riley and for what reason as well. "I don't know." Olivia said as she thought for a moment, and bit her bottom lip for a second she didn't want to reveal that Finley could get visions, but she did want to say that they would be going to the lake later that evening. "Finley, Declan and I are going to the lake to see if we can find anything up there did you want to come?" Olivia offered her.

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Siegfried let out a loud groan and hiss in pain when Kosara splashed the holy water into his mouth, and then spat onto the ground feeling his mouth starting to burn and sizzle slightly from the water. His eyes continued to remain very black and stood a bit closer towards the hunter. "Oh i'd make you squirm and make you experience all the pain you could ever think of." Siegfried threatened, and then howled in pain when Kosara stabbed his leg, causing him to drop down to his knees as she did the same thing to his other leg as well. Abraham continued to pace around the room watching the interrogation continue.

Abe watched what Kosara was doing, before making his way over towards her and rested a hand on her shoulder for a moment as Siegfried continued to groan from the pain. A mixture of blood and the bit of holy water started to get onto parts of the Devil's trap, Abe started to notice that and quickly made sure that the warding would remain strong. "Lets take a break, we may need the host alive if the demon doesn't reveal anything." Abe said towards his niece.

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She sighed and shook her head, making a pondering expression for a moment." Why are you all always going for the same lines?" She asked and poked him a few more times with a sword just to spite him some more before she pulled away to evaluate the other options. She had also nodded the possiblity of the trap breaking so she nodded and pulled away from the demon and pulled herself a small notebook, going through a few pages.

"Abe, the host's health is not of importance in this case if a bigshot is about to appear... and you know it. Bigger picture as bad as it sounds. Besides even if we exorcise him, there's nothing to say the host won't die, demons don't bother healing wounds in general who knows if he's not into mush inside." Kosara smiled and threw a glance at the demon again." He won't talk if it's his boss in the line... at least not in a small amount of time. Let's just carve a demon trap onto his skin and proceed with an exorcism that will shake him up good. I hear being exorcised isn't a pleasant feeling, ehh smoke for brains?" She asked Seig.

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The two girls didn't seem pleased about their presence, but Heather wasn't concerned with that. She was frustrated with how little information she could find on the house and this Siegfried Seoh person. Who was he?

Heather shivered as the temperature in the room dropped. The door shut, Heather looked up startled. There was someone standing there. A transparent man. Was this Siegfried? He was definitely a ghost. Something Heather hadn't believed in until just now, but considering how her morning had gone she was allowing herself to be more open-minded about that sort of thing. There was no denying it either. He was standing there in front of them. She took a sharp breath and then he started drawing in the condensation on the window.

Heather pulled her notebook out of her bag and sketched the symbol. The man disappeared and the door opened again and the temperature started to return to normal.

"Tell me you saw that and I'm not totally crazy?" She looked at Robin, a bit of fear in her eyes. She glanced at the two girls in the room, wondering if they saw it too. "Was that Siegfried? It didn't look like him, right? I don't know if today could get weirder."

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Harry eyed the woman. Before he was relatively neutral on her, but now he didn't trust her. Not one bit. This was an object that was obviously prized. It wasn't like some old antique shoved in the corner of an attic. Apparently it had been in her family for years, likely generations. She happened to carry the key on a necklace she wore at all times on her. And she was just going to give it away to a complete stranger. She had some ulterior motive for this. And she was likely involved in the case. More than she let on.

"Thank you," he said as he took the key. With all that in mind, if this ended up being an important clue, he wasn't going to pass up having it on hand. And if it wasn't he could always just give it back. It may be playing into whatever she had planned, but he had to take the opportunities presented to him. With a bit of fiddling he got the case unlocked and opened. Gingerly he took the little item out of its case to better inspect it.