Chapter 23: Comma
If Arthur had the means to help Diana, he would have done that already but the fact is, he did not. However, this did light a fire under the young man's arse. If he had any hesitation to ignore the plight at Blue Lake, that thought was promptly banished out of his mind after he knew what was at stake.
Some might perceive this as selfishness and they would be right. At the end of the day, human beings were self-serving creatures and Arthur was no different. Make no mistake, Arthur would help Diana but that was nowhere near the top of his to-do list, however, knowing that there was something on the line for him, this changed plenty of things. There was now an added motivation to help Diana.
All in all, while Arthur admitted that there was potential to the rewards provided by the Special Petitions, they were all currently inaccessible to him. He had no solution to resolve the petition related to Diana and the other two petitions were currently unknown to Arthur. He probably had not come across the mythical creatures to trigger them yet. The young man wondered if this was the book's way to motivate him, it kinda reminded him of the donkey and the carrot, him being the donkey in this situation.
In any case, since there was nothing Arthur could do temporarily with regards to the Special Petitions, he moved onto the normal petitions. As mentioned before, if there was no change to the Available Petitions, he would have no choice but to take on the one by Mr. M despite Miss S' warning. Thankfully, the page had been updated.
Petition No. 1 had been removed from the page because Arthur had already completed Miss S' assignment. Petition No. 2 was the one given by Mr. M and there was a new petition underneath it, a Petition No. 3.
Looking at this latest petition, Arthur did not know what to think. Instead of words and details like the ones provided in Petition No. 1 and 2, all Petition No. 3 had a paw print. Arthur did not know how to make heads or tails of this situation.
First, he tried to ask the Book of Thoth for assistance, "Hey, can you help interpret this for me? What is it trying to say? What is Petition No. 3?"
Arthur waited for a while but there was no discernible change. Either the book did not understand what he said or the paw print was everything the book had to give to help Arthur. Either way, this meant that the book was no help. It further instilled Arthur's belief that the Book of Thoth he got was a pirated version or else how did one explain why it was so clueless to everything.
Since Arthur knew he could not rely on the book, he had to solve this puzzle by himself. He examined the paw print closer. The print was of a slightly smaller size so the animal who left the print was probably a small-sized creature. That removed the possibility of beasts like elephants, tigers, and lions. Then again, maybe the book had downsized the print to fit it into the page, perhaps the original size was as big as a watermelon. Furthermore, Arthur believed he was dealing with a mythical beast so who was to say, an elephant cannot have dainty feet in the mythical world? Anything is possible in the mythical world.
Then, Arthur examined the print to draw conclusion about the client's species. The indentation was of a sole and four fingers. That eliminated the possibility of any sort of avian because those would have left claw marks. Other than that, Arthur had nothing to go on with. He was not a veterinarian to know the species of an animal from their paw print alone.
Arthur tried doing his research online but without the species of the animal so he could compare the paw print to, it was practically hopeless. The young man tried the more common domesticated animals like cats and dogs. The paw print on the book looked somewhat similar to the paw prints of these animals online but there were still some minor differences.
Even though the identity of the client for Petition No. 3 was still shrouded in mystery, Arthur leaned towards accepting this petition compared to Petition No. 2. If Miss S. wasn't lying to him and Arthur could see no reason for her to do so, then accepting Petition No. 2 would put him in mortal danger. Even if he did not know what Petition No. 3 might entail, at least unknown was safer than definite danger. Plus, since Miss S. had already warned him about Mr. M, if the latest petition was more dangerous than Petition No. 2, she would have said something. Arthur knew he probably shouldn't have based the basis of his choice on the words of a woman who just admitted to sending him to a death mission but there was no better option.
Arthur scratched his chin as he thought about it. He realized he still had time before he needed to come to a decision, he had something else to inspect first.
These included the details of the Siren's Song as well as the update to Miss S.' client profile.
To Arthur's disappointment, the profile for Miss S hadn't been updated much.
Profile 1-
Name: Miss S.
Profession: Dancer
Mythos Identity: Siren,
Note: One of three sisters.
Affection Level: 1 <3
One of the updates was the identity, Siren. Arthur already knew that from the ability he stole from her. Just as he was about the turn the page, something caught the young man's attention. There was a comma and not a full stop next to the word, Siren.
Arthur doubted the Book of Thoth would make such grammatical mistake so the comma must have been left there for a reason. 'Does this mean Miss S. has more than one mythic identity? What else can she be other than a siren? Is multiple identity even possible for mythic creatures?'
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Lonelytree That ends the first petition. Promised to end it before the competition ends. The result should be announced tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Remember to vote with your power stones :D
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