Nathan’s Diary part 9: The Fae Summit

In The Doom that Came to Amber

22^nd Bull 3658

In the morning I decide to go along and try and get some merchants to take the newly packaged crystals. I have some success.

Later I receive a trump contact which I try to ignore. When it is pushed I let it through. It is Random. He pulls me through to a shadow that I later discover is called Earth. He tells me that the flat we are in belongs to Sarah, daughter of Corwin, and that she has been gone for maybe ten years. He thinks that her disappearance may be related to Corwin's. He asks me to look for her while he continues to look for Corwin and then leaves through the front door.

From a picture I see that Sarah Corey has short dark hair, is of medium build and quite muscular with it. She resembles Corwin. In the pictures she seems giggly, in her teens, but careworn later in life.

In the address book there are not too many recent boyfriends. From a phone bill I discover that it has been six years since she left, today’s date is 5^th October 1991. The flat is in Manchester, England. Her mother is in a rest home and Sarah was a solicitor.

In the guest bedroom there are some clothes in Corwin's colours which seem more appropriate than my desert garb, so I decide to make use of them.

I find a diary. The mail has been picked up for a while. There are a couple of letters from her solicitor firm from which I can tell she left in August 1989. It looks like she had not spent long planning her departure. There is an atlas laid open with the Grand Canyon in Arizona, America showing. There is little evidence showing why she left.

I hack into her computer. The password was her mother’s name. People are so damned predictable. In her files. I find some information. Construction has been stopped on a nearby site due to eco and heritage groups who have unearthed indescribable findings. I realise that the flat has really high security. Ringing Sarah’s mother’s rest home I infer that she is dead.

Using some of the gold, I get a passport and plane ticket.

In the first class cabin I feel a trump contact which I let through when it’s pushed. It’s Alaric. He is with Khitan who is interested in my whereabouts. I tell them that I’m on shadow Earth heading for the Grand Canyon in America. I tell him that Random had contacted me and given me my mission. Alaric tells me that the trumps are bugged and that I should look after myself and keep in contact. Khitan asks whether the magic crystals were delivered. I tell him six were and that I’m not sure how long this mission will last.