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[Annabeth's face pops up, curls a mess as usual, but considering the turtle developments, she doesn't look nearly as cross as usual?? There's the sounds of water splashing around somewhere in the suite, but she doesn't appear to care.]

It goes without saying that the turtle's health started improving at last. [Because powers! And it's swimming again!] I know various numbers of us were tasked by Evandau into investigations, and I don't know how all the other situations turned out, but Doctor Soranik Natu, Rogue, Percy Jackson, and myself found something probably worth sharing.

We were assigned with investigating a string of robberies initially, but really, the important part is we discovered a series of incomplete archways in several different homes and attempted to recreate one in its entirety.

The whole "world between Life, Death, and Dreaming" thing everyone gets on arrival? Start taking it literally, if you weren't before. Keeliai as we live in it here is the Life plane. The archway opened up a portal of a kind, and said portal took us to the Death plane.

[A blob of water floats across the screen, blurring Annabeth's face, but it's still possible to see her turn around in a huff, and from somewhere off screen there's an "Oops, sorry!" before the water flies off. She continues unperturbed.]

It was basically a version of Keeliai gone awry and ruined, everything rotting away, and we found markings in the form of some kind of blood magic, directly over where the Emperor's Palace is in this plane. Scans proved it to be kedan blood in origin, some of it fresh, and the pattern was being drawn by - you know, what we're here to fight, in a magical attempt to kill Tu Vishan. We were able to wipe the incomplete blood slate clean and stop this part of his illness before leaving the plane. [By 'we' she mostly means Ocean Jesus did A Water Thing.]

Unfortunately, or fortunately, the way in seems to be gone. The archways all disappeared once we got back, as did that particular methodology in creating them. [Melted pins ahh. A pause.] The Death plane is probably where our infamous threat is hiding. Its domain, so to speak.

Tu Vishan's health is picking up, but this - this situation here, with this thing we're up against? It's definitely not over.

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They remains are pre-kedan, apparently, and pre standardization of sea burial. But it would make sense if they were necessary to the magic.

[Annabeth notices that in Hayley's voice, and makes a bit of a face, observant and thoughtful above anything else.] A mixture of alive and dead? Since there were reports of people finding kedan bodies drained of blood. [Pause.] Where is the boy now?

[Hayley lifts her hands to the back of her neck with anxiety at Annabeth's question, clearly not thrilled to be talking about this.]

He died.

[Reading people is A Thing for Annabeth, and she can absolutely pick up on the signals Hayley's giving off.]

[Still, she's sympathetic, if not also disappointed.] I'm sorry to hear that. [She wants to ask how he died, but now doesn't seem the best time.]

Where was he being kept, and by who?

[Hayley's dark mood only worsens, though it's reasonably subtle, and her words are more stiff.]

In a small crawlspace type thing, by some guy the head of the police arrested thanks to us.

[She pulls a face at the description, continues in awareness of the dampening in Hayley's mood. She has more questions, but she sort of shifts it, away from directly the boy.]

At least he was arrested. Was he working for - you know, the thing we're here to fight? [They really need a universal name to call it.]

[Hayley nods.]

The Big Bad? Yeah. At least that's what it seemed like, with what the kid said. At least they're shut down.

Good. The less allies he has, the better. Was there anything else worthy of note? [A pause, because she doesn't exactly what to bring it back there, but she needs to ask.] What about the boy's name?

[She glances down.]

There were a lot of things of note, but.. [She looks back up.] Maybe you should ask someone else? They probably have better memories than I do. I don't really..

[Hayley drops her gaze again, clearly uncomfortable.]

Ask Lois. Or Clark. You said you know him, right? I'm sure he can help you.

[And she reaches forward to cut off the feed.]

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