Journal of Miyara Kyosuke (30)
Miyara, myself, Goru and Ashu continued to chase the
renegade fairy butler downriver as fast as we could, but we lost the
trail at the next town and even Ashu sniffing like a dog could not pick
it back up. This town was of course full of stories about what
had happened in Krutzhoffen, and many of those were ridiculous
inventions, as I have come to expect from the superstitious
barbarians. We told them the true story, both to those in
authority and to the locals and particularly the river traders, hoping
to restore a normal state to the town we had as our temporary
home. We did manage to convince a boat to take us back upstream,
and this would have the added advantage of showing these traders that
what we said was in fact correct.
The rest of the group stayed behind and
interrogated Selina, the woman who had stumbled into town dying
of manbane poisoning. She was hired by Martin to
do odd jobs around Krutzhoffen including faking the vampire
attack. She didn't know whether it was Martin, Frederick,
or both who poisoned her. She claimed not to know of Gehrig
or Stampi his fairy butler, or of their involvement with
Martin. She insisted she knew nothing of the death of Britt
Stoltenburg. She too repeated that no-one was supposed to get
hurt, and apparently knew nothing of any of the other deaths.