Mulberry decides to stay upstairs.
 
She scurries up the hole leading to Antoine’s room with some effort. Good to know that works!
 
She frowns, and looks at the body strapped to the bed. It doesn’t seem to have changed at all. She still doesn’t want to touch it though.
 
She locks the door to the bedroom behind her, and for extra safety she drags a nearby couch in front of it.
 
There! At least she’ll have a few moments to actually hear him coming should anything happen.
 
Mulberry then heads to the other apartment, and lighting a candle from one of the boxes and opening a can of lentils she sits down and begins to work on decoding the notebook.
 
The cipher takes some time, but it’s actually rather simply. It simply replaces some letters with others. When she turns the page she was working on however she finds the cipher doesn’t work. Did Antoine seriously make a new one for every page?
 
She sighs and turns the page back and reads the translation.
 

 
The “Sun” rune is pretty much the polar opposite of the “Moon”. In that it represents light, truth, and overt power, and exposing hidden things.
 
It’s no surprise then the first spell found was a spell to turn objects into light sources using the combination of Sun-Power-Object. Adding “Big” runes-
 

 
Mulberry is broken quite harshly out of her reading as she hears thumping coming from the other room. She’s instantly at the door and looks through the passageway back to Antoine’s. No one there.
 
Taking her candle she creeps slowly towards his apartment, shivering in fear. She stops and ducks low as the thumping gets louder.
 
She pokes her head out and looks at the room where Hard Tack’s body is. Luckily, the sofa is-
 
More loud thumping, and Mulberry jumps as she is quite close to it.
 
Wait, it’s not coming from the bedroom. It’s actually coming from the front door. It’s just someone knocking, but who could that possibly be?
 

 

 

 
 
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