Case File MO70

Dean: 2-4-0-4-0-3-2-3-9-9. Marshal, you have to get to the train station.

Marshal: Harrington? Is this about the Geraldine sighting?

Dean: Managed to track her back to the train station, sir. Freestone just left half an hour ago, got smuggled onto one of the boxcars. Bean managed to shame the workers into telling us where they’re going, all Sinnners in the Hands of an Angry God. It’s Chicago, they’re holding the next train for us, how fast can you get here?

Marshal: Damnit! I got asked to look into the wizard prison break in Iowa; I’m still two hours away at best.

Dean: Fine, I’ll tell the station to hold the next one and take this one-

Marshal: No, wait. First, send a telegram to the train station in Chicago and one to…Marshal 19. He’ll be in Milwaukee working on…well that information’s classified, but he owes me a favor and Milwaukee’s closer to Chicago than St. Louis. We saw they were carrying boxes and cars in that wagon ; if we can’t catch them, we can at least force them to abandon their cargo and slow them down.

Dean: Smart. I’ll take care of it.

Marshal: And keep the pastor on a short leash. He’s loose on your word and any harm he does will be on your head.

Dean: As you’ve told me four times already. See you in Chicago, sir.

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Inkbiter,

The Seer Overseer has finished his divinations. The compass test points to the north, unsurprisingly, inclining slightly to the east. The Pythian points to ‘chi’. We will find them in Chicago, Cleveland, or Cincinnati. We will have two ghouls and eight homunculi in each by the next dawn, dosed with the new tincture Thorn suggested. We’ll have him hung in a week.

Be ready to put our success in the paper as soon as it happens. Don’t let Thorn browbeat you.