Two days after 'Washed Ashore' was presented.

“Upon review, I should have been more thorough in my previous notes. I repeatedly mentioned Hunters, but never their Chapter. Nor did I do well describing where things took place, such as when I mentioned the Seat without specifying it was the New Seat, on Council’s Bridge, not the old one in Blackseat.

“That changes now.

“After what happened at the Dome of Eyes, the Hunters of the Watchful Gaze, led by Speaker Bertram, set out and recorded every single poster’s placement. They went from Blackseat and Council’s Bridge to the eating houses and recreational areas of Sprawling, the Museum of the Hunt in Easpill, and every other location I neglected to mention even in passing. They compared these to where Gregory and Abigail lived, in the Mazesmith part of Sprawling, and found it impossible for someone to move unseen through the streets from there to the posters’ locations.

“Then they took the Dome into account, and concluded the cloaked culprit must be an excellent climber. They started tracing rooftops, studying pathways you would normally never consider, and found that every poster’s location could be reached by climbing atop the roofs of Shrubs, at the food forest’s edge, and going from building to building from there.

“And so, the Watchful Gaze descended on the food forest, scouring the woods until they found an old, long-abandoned storage space, too close to the Ea and tainted by its water seeping through the ground. There, they came across a rickety printing press, a collection of identically damaged fonts, a store of ink, and paper eaten at by mould and bugs.

“But they found no people.

“It has left the others and I uneasy. Peter is constantly nervous, going in circles about every problem he runs into. Jay has started isolating themself, spending almost all their time in their room. Lou up and left Fenblith, leaving me scrambling to find a new artist and delaying the release of ‘Washed Ashore’ by two weeks, allowing for six weeks of production instead of the planned four. Speaker River was annoyed with that, but the quality of the work delivered by Iva and their friend and assistant Camilla seems to have appeased them, even if they sometimes remark on the two living in Gayetown, ‘with the other misfits.’

“That last thing may turn out to be a blessing, though. It has been two days since we released ‘Washed Ashore’, and although there have been no posters, we know the people behind them are still out there. And thanks to Iva, I know there have been whispers of discontent in Gayetown that merit an investigation.

“I’m going to go there tomorrow.”