"Well we co-" the man had started in tandem to Fion's question, knowing almost exactly how he was going to proceed with their little investigation. They had naturally been interrupted by someone who had no bearing on him, except that he brought news for the man's companion. It had been through a line of succession that the man had only been faintly aware of that Fion had been given a seat on the Sidosa Board. It had been shocking to learn that the position was going to Fion of all people would get the position out of everyone in his entire family, but it perhaps only confirmed what the Seyour estate had only hinted at: Fion's entire family was dead. A sobering thought, even if neither of them particularly liked any of the household's members.

Fion left the man's presence without so much as a word from the latter party. He was nonplussed, if only slightly annoyed, that Fion had left in such a hurry; the boy's new title helping with his own investigation.

The man started his investigations with the guard captain who had greeted them earlier. The man was reluctant to speak with someone who had been accompanying one of those "damn monsters" and had the guardian of one of their main suspects in incapacitated tow. The only thing he got out of that short trip was that many of the guards were worrying how they were going to defend Cykes if they were attacked again with the lack of talentium around. [i]Curious,[/i] the man had thought as he left the main gate.

His next stop was to the Bureau; the place was likely to be in a fervor with the monsters having attacked and vanished without so much as a trace. His pace was that of a hurried walk, enough to get him there in a hurry, and enough to instill a subtle urgency to those who he passed. However, he was stopped, once. It was from idle chatter on the street, idle mention of unusual sightings even during a monster attack. A wyrm with nary a leg or tail, just wings, and a viscous ooze which absorbed all in its path. He had never heard of such beasts occurring naturally before, so what kind of summoning did this? It did bring one thing to the forefront of his mind though; Bakery Town, and the beast which had appeared there. He could feel a shiver, and with it wrapped his burlap cloak further into himself.

Finally at his destination, he stepped through the main doorway only to find the place empty. The registration hall was barren, the teller desks which you would usually approach to accept a job or receive payment were all shuttered, and the only person there was a man who was cleaning the dust that had been accumulating from the lack of activity, despite the fact that much of the rest of the town was in shambles and still recovering. It seemed in the panic this place had been untouched. "Oi," the man had called to the janitor. "You wouldn't happen to know what happened in this town, would you?" The man figured that if he had come all this way, he better just find out what he can.
"First," the janitor had said back to the man, his voice hoarse with age, "what exactly do you already know, sonny?" He had halted his cleaning.
"There's now a lack of talentium and that there was a strange wyvern and ooze attacking with the rest of the summoned hoard... why?"
"Hm, well I guess there would be no logical way for someone who wasn't there to make the connection..." his voice trailed off, and there was a silence as if both wished for the other to speak first. "Those two creatures... devoured what talentium was used against them, and the wielders who used such weapons against them... both blade and magic proved ineffective... they were invincible against any attack we could muster against them."