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Clarence points to the spell,
“But don’t you see? This proves the existence of other planes! It’s incredible. Do you think our time on the train was such a place? Or even the same one the ghouls came from?”
He starts.
“Felicity, the glowing wall! That might be a gateway to another plane.”

"I'm quite sure you're right," says Felicity. "I do think the train was some sort of other dimension or something, just like the Professor told us in his lecture, as well as the glowing wall through which Jacque left. But we'd best be careful who we tell this, or we might end up in Ward 7 ourselves."

Clarence looks somewhat miffed and subsides with mutters of ‘scientific breakthroughs’ and ‘answers to historical mysteries’ as he pours over every detail of the spell.

'Speaking French?' huffs Andrew. 'I should have known,' he says, as if that piece of information just confirms everything he's always suspected about the French people.

'But the last time we saw these ghouls we quite sensibly hid. Even if we could contact them, do we really want to? Can they help us in our task, to find the pieces of the Sedefkar Simulacrum?'

He pointedly avoids talk of other dimensions. Rather too metaphysical for his tastes.

"We do need a lead on those statue pieces," says Felicity, "but I think talking to those creatures should be a last resort. We were right to avoid them. What else do we know about where to find the piece that's here?"

"I realize that it is difficult to talk about this...this..." Archie struggles to find the right words as he makes a plea to Clarence. It's almost like the scientist portion of his brain is rebelling, refusing to utter the words 'spell' or 'ghouls' or 'magic' "...weird bollocks..." he finally manages. "But we may have no other choice than to be successful on our quest. I am becoming increasingly sure of that."

"Let's see if we can find another way first," says Felicity. "If we can't, then we can talk to those...chaps. At least we'd be doing it on our terms."

Clarence looks up,
“We could always follow Jaques through the luminous wall to the other dimension. I say, I’ve had a thought, do you think it was the ghouls that attacked the nurse at the asylum?”

"It's possible," says Felicity. "Or it could have been the man we went there to find. Where has he gone, and what is he doing? I'm reluctant to follow Jacque until we can be sure the trip isn't one way. We might want to research the phenomenon and see if we can find out more about it. But what about the statue piece? What do we know about it?"

Looking confused, Andrew says, 'Let's take a little step back for a second. Jacque was one of the patients from the asylum? And he escaped through to another dimension? Exactly how and where did he do that and how do you know that's what happened?'

"Yes, he went down the tunnel we didn't choose when we first arrived," says Felicity. "At its end, past an intersection by which we reached that tunnel, he arrived at a glowing wall. He said farewell to us, touched the wall, and vanished. Etienne was with him at first, but he got cold feet and left. When we caught up to him, he explained it to us."

Archie watched Felicity intently as she shared the story about the glowing wall. "Did he say anything about whether it was a one way trip or if you could freely pass back and forth? Because if it is a two way trip, that might be our next site to investigate."

"All he said was 'Goodbye, people of consciousness,'" says Felicity. "Then he went through the glowing circle."

'Our last trip beyond the confines of this world didn't go terribly well!'

“Jaques seemed a rational man when we last saw him, it was if he was just catching a cab and we’d him later. Certainly not someone who was entering peril or not expecting to return.

I vote we make a plan for continuing our search on the mundane plane or we divert to the new plane and maybe find some real answers there.” Clarence replies.

"A rational man wouldn't be in Ward 7," says Felicity. "And he said 'Goodbye' in English, not 'au revoir.' I don't think he intends to come back. Let's see what we can find in this world first before we think about going to another one."

Archie leaned forward and nodded. "Yes, let's comb all of the locations here in Paris. Then, if we still don't have enough clues to find the item, then we can resort to the supernatural and the 'weird bollocks.'"

Andrew frowns at Archie, 'Language sir, we are still gentlemen! But I concur.'

"Then it's agreed," says Felicity, whose own mouth has uttered fouler things. "Now, what leads do we still have in Paris?"