20:37 (ANNA)

Bleargh I am exhausted. Only one hour left to go. My eyes burn. Mew. BUT I threw a chocolate at MCM and it hit him right in the face and it was hilarious!

Chapter 43 outline:

Koen saves Valerye from the fire. They must have missed something, something worth killing for. Must be the ghost story. Get into Vooruit after pleading with cleaning staff. Pick up cup: empty except for a tiny bit of dirt. Here are three subjects that have nothing to do with anything, just that Achyel researched something around them. They look up the original reports again, realize Achyel wasn’t doing myths of world war 2 at all… he was a chronicler! So he must have known about these problems, but he didn’t do anything… why not? They go to see him and he admits it all: he extorted money from their families in the past, but he had nothing to do with their current problems. But then why was it so much work to assemble profiles? Son arrives. It was him.

Maybe I am tired but I don’t get exactly what Achiel was doing and what it has to do with the Damascus and WWII storylines. Meh. I will pester MCM later.

Chapter 44 outline:

Knew his father had done terrible things, so he used his position to blackhole the families to keep anyone from finding out. Bruno somehow picked it out, decided to cause problems. Killed him to keep him quiet. Achyel despondent. Will have him taken care of. Going back home, Valerye thanks Koen for everything. Koen says he’s happy things worked out, can move on now. Goes home, opens logbook to write down the resolutions. One, two, three. He stares at the results, then realizes what he’s seeing: it’s an Archivist code! Reads it: “Koen watch the cup or we will all die.”

This whole time the cup has been (physically!) sitting behind us in the venue, in the exact location it is supposed to be in the story. So now we are watching it. We are watching it carefully.