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Session Sixteen: All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom

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While Tommy goes to ask questions in some mob-run bars, the rest of the cabal goes to an upscale club in an expensive part of Boston. It is shortly after midnight on 13 June. Getting in isn't a big problem for Patrick, Dorothy, and Stephen; Surya goes around to the back of the club and takes up a position in the shadows near an exit.

 

Once inside, Sequela and Saint use Matter to scan the area for the drug's chemical signature, and find it in ten distinct places, some major and some minor. Three separate quantities are on a group of guys sitting at a table in the left-hand side of the room, a raised area overlooking the dance floor. Two are in the possession of people in the middle of the dance floor, and five are somewhere off toward the back of the club, maybe in the bathrooms. Sequela and Saint work on the guys at the table, Volchik drinks like they ain't making more of the stuff, and Surya waits. Sequela does her best to keep things calm and quiet and just persuade the men that the drugs are bad enough that they should not take them. She doesn't hesitate to use a little Death magic to take the starch out of one of the men who gets physical with her. Once a light touch has made one of them crumple, some of the others prove much easier to persuade. Saint, on the other hand, has a much harder time persuading his target that he is here to buy back bad drugs, especially when he has a pang of greed and haggles over the price, but eventually he too is successful. Volchik scans the crowd's surface thoughts, and is surprised to find his own thoughts reflected, like staring into two facing mirrors.

 

One of the girls dancing in the middle of the room is Sequela's next target, while Saint is working on his initial target. After dancing together for awhile, the girl explains that she is a law student who is soon to take her bar exam. Sequela convinces her to step outside, through the back door, to speak more privately. Surya emerges from the shadows just as Sequela explains that she is a cop and is trying to chase down a batch of lethal drugs. The girl gives up all resistance, and calls another friend to convince her not to use the drug. Surya waits and watches as the girl makes her phone call, while Sequela goes back inside to continue working her way through the batches. When the girl tells him that her friend might still use the drug and didn't listen to her, Surya gets the address: a location on Harvard campus. Harvard is, of course, as off-limits to the cabal as a place can be - it's the stronghold of the Seers of the Throne.

 

Sequela goes into the women's room to find that it is completely packed, and a girl is slouched and unresponsive in a chair. The drug's chemical signature is apparent to her mystical senses. She drags Saint, Surya, and a heavily inebriated Volchik into the bathroom to help the girl. Volchik severs the threads of correspondence that the drug is attempting to establish and wards her mind against influence. Sequela manages to talk a few more girls in the bathroom out of using the drug. From talking to each group of people who have the drugs, the cabal puts together the picture that a woman is persuading people to try the drugs, and may be using Mind magic to strengthen that persuasion.

 

With this many doses of the drug and actual threads of correspondence on hand, Volchik takes another shot at scrying on the other end of the correspondence thread. He sees into Angrboõa's sanctum - and Angrboõa sees him in return, lashing out with a blazing psychic sword. Still, Volchik counts this as a win - he's shown his enemy that he can find him.

 

The cabal has cleaned up all of the doses of the drug in the bar, and has addresses in the Harvard dormitories for three more doses, and the room number of the woman they believe to be the distributor. They plan to head over there once they've joined up again with Tommy.

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