Chafla grumpily mumbled something inaudibly as Lyra mentioned higher pay. "Eeeeeh. I don't have that kind of gold. I'm a trader, not a real estate agent." he eventually answered, then began trailing off. "Buut! I do have this thing..." Reaching into a satchel that hung from his waist, Chafla pulled out a disc, made of a silver-y metal. If she had been paying attention, Lya would notice the metal in question being the same that the "watch" of the librarian in Winterhorn has made of. At the centre of the front of the disc was a round black gem. Although this gem resembled an onyx, upon closer inspection it would be revealed that it was something else entirely. At the back of the disk were a series of blunt pins. "You know what this is? This, is a key that opens up a a otherwise unbreachable gate in the mines of Rocbyrd. If you present it to a man named Icarus, he'll likely pay you a small fortune, as he's been looking for this little thing for ages!
So... deal?"
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"Precisely so. In my experience, stories such as these are oft times made up in the effort to demonify a specific group. Stories told by parents to scare their children. "Behave, or the frightful monster will drag you out of your bed!" What I wish to know, is just how much these stories are exaggerated. It is a thing that interests me." Loki answered Rita, then turned back to Evaline.
"Is that so? Hearing that, that sounds not like the behaviour of some spectre, rather a someone or some being playing you for a fool. How long has this phenomenon been happening?"