A crowd gathered. The investigators from Chaos had arrived. I regognized Gilva and had Mandor pointed out to me. Random and Vialle were present of course, as were Llewella and Flora (Swoon). The idea hit me that Jade might be among the crowd someplace, in disguise. I wandered through the crowd brushing up against everyone checking for Jade's mental signature. Before I could finish the Chaosites were being lead off, and Random was calling Locke, Connie, Jessica, myself, and Quinn together to go over our findings. Silence.
It was awkward.

Sadly, that is about all we had done. And we hadn't turned up anything of real importance.

I brought up the theory that Merlin was still alive and his death might have been faked by himself or others. Random thought that over and called Gerard in to examine Merlin more closely. Gerard found the star which Connie and I confirmed Merlin had conjured in Chaos. It's what he didn't find that was more startling (to those who knew Merlin better).

The more imporant question for us at the time was what is Frakir? Gerard told us it was a magical bracelet worn at all times by Merlin. It disturbed him that it was missing. He set about following Merlin's trail backwards to see if he could locate it. We, on the other hand, decided to question Chaos' chief investigator, Mandor.