many people move here to start families

[cross_and_bow]

Bella is hanging out in a Jarvis - the familiar one - handwriting a nonaggression proposal-slash-bribe. Has to be handwritten. Damn fussy demons. At least it's okay for her to conjure rather than personally harvesting the weird ink she's supposed to use.

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[cross_and_bow]

[Bath Lady is up to something I don't like. Trying to figure out what it is.]

[eversomuchfun]

[And what are your observations so far?]

[cross_and_bow]

[She isn't very chatty. Not sure where to take it from here; I don't know what all she can do.]

Usually this would be the part where she invited him to help, but he's probably comforting Soph or something.

[eversomuchfun]

[I'll have a look, then.]

[cross_and_bow]

[I'll spy on the present, I guess.]

[eversomuchfun]

[A convenient allocation of tasks.]

[pythbox]

Meanwhile, Glorificus is grumpy and her minion is terrified.

[cross_and_bow]

[How would you rather I talk to you? Should I make an appointment?] Bella inquires of Glorificus.

[pythbox]

"Miniooooon," Glory complains, "the spying person is still telepathing at me."

[cross_and_bow]

[You can telepath right back, you know.]

[pythbox]

"I don't want to," she declares poutily.

"Er... Mistress?"

"Not you," she huffs, pushing the minion's head gently away. He scurries back a few steps.

[cross_and_bow]

[Well, that doesn't matter, I can hear you either way. So what are you?]

[pythbox]

"You first," says Glorificus, crossing her arms.

"Your beauteousness...?"

"Not you, minion! Shoo," she says. She flaps her hand at him. He shoos.

[cross_and_bow]

[I'm a telepath, obviously.]

[pythbox]

"And what are you bothering me for?"

[cross_and_bow]

[I want to know what you did to that man.]

[pythbox]

"Well, I'm not going to tell you," says Glorificus, sitting back down and picking up her magazine.

[cross_and_bow]

[Why not?]

[pythbox]

"Because you're annoying," she sniffs.

[cross_and_bow]

[I didn't mean to annoy you.]

[Sherlock, you getting anything worth knowing?]

[pythbox]

"Well, you did," she grumbles. "You should be very sorry."

[eversomuchfun]

[The bath lady's name is Glorificus, Glory for short; her alter ego is Ben, a perfectly ordinary human except for occasionally turning into her. She seems to derive power or sustenance from sucking... something... out of people's brains. Her past victims can be cured at a pentagon per, but I only did the most recent one. The rest are either dead or in mental hospitals.]

[cross_and_bow]

[How many victims are we talking about here? What does Ben know?]

[I am as sorry as I should be,] Bella asserts to Glory.

[eversomuchfun]

[Ballpark of two or three hundred so far. Ben knows a thing or two, and you might have more luck getting it out of him than out of her.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Can you tell what triggers the shapeshifting?]