A Kidnapping
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prometheanslogs[Who:] "John Eddowes", Open
[What:] Anything?
[When:] Several days after the Batton Hollow log.
[Where:] Eddowes' Apothecary
The papers were headlined with a story about the imported technology being employed in airship design. In spite of the ban on medical and scientific experimentation, it seemed the country's leadership had no problems with allowing this sort of advancement...particularly if it mean the advancement of their fortunes.
Eddowes tended to ignore the first page; it was usually propaganda, no matter what the content skewed towards. His interests lay in the stories buried on the tenth page, where few people cared to read. These were after the obituaries, the editorials, the scathing diatribes about the youth today. On page ten, the really interesting stuff lay.
Today, for example, there was a short article about a journalist from a rival newspaper, arrested for "heresy so calamitous, this paper dares not repeat." Aside from the egregious misuse of the word "calamitous" (for Eddowes would rarely, if ever, call the written word disastrous), it was a fairly straightforward piece: the journalist was being held in the royal city, awaiting trial. The subsequent article was of more interest; clearly, it was a situation someone in the higher ranks was trying to keep quiet. Lord Alaric Previn's son was presumed kidnapped, and his governess, the last to have seen the boy, stood accused.
He was just scanning the article for some detail as to why the father might have been targeted when the door opened. Irritated, he refolded the newspaper to the front and set it aside. It would have to wait.
[What:] Anything?
[When:] Several days after the Batton Hollow log.
[Where:] Eddowes' Apothecary
The papers were headlined with a story about the imported technology being employed in airship design. In spite of the ban on medical and scientific experimentation, it seemed the country's leadership had no problems with allowing this sort of advancement...particularly if it mean the advancement of their fortunes.
Eddowes tended to ignore the first page; it was usually propaganda, no matter what the content skewed towards. His interests lay in the stories buried on the tenth page, where few people cared to read. These were after the obituaries, the editorials, the scathing diatribes about the youth today. On page ten, the really interesting stuff lay.
Today, for example, there was a short article about a journalist from a rival newspaper, arrested for "heresy so calamitous, this paper dares not repeat." Aside from the egregious misuse of the word "calamitous" (for Eddowes would rarely, if ever, call the written word disastrous), it was a fairly straightforward piece: the journalist was being held in the royal city, awaiting trial. The subsequent article was of more interest; clearly, it was a situation someone in the higher ranks was trying to keep quiet. Lord Alaric Previn's son was presumed kidnapped, and his governess, the last to have seen the boy, stood accused.
He was just scanning the article for some detail as to why the father might have been targeted when the door opened. Irritated, he refolded the newspaper to the front and set it aside. It would have to wait.
