Peony remained quiet as Siana thought aloud. She had her own suspicions, but they were, as she had claimed, only theories, each more troubling than the last. "You are welcome," she said, leaving the notebook on the table for the peacekeeper to review later. "I only wish I could give you more of my time. I do not like this any better than you do."
At the question about the memstone, though, she nodded, reached out her hand, pointed at a line of text on the scroll. "This one," she said, "and this one. In the Necrohol. The source of the two troubles appears to be the same, although the crime is not. I can only speculate on their aim there - there were no ritual circles, no apparent bloodletting." She paused before offering, "Please understand that this is a hypothesis only, but the missing bodies - you may well meet them in battle." Distasteful and abhorrent - and an abomination against the teachings of Faram - but these people did not abide by such rules as basic human decency demanded, and they would not be above such actions.