putting together puzzle pieces [late week 3]

[finalizes]

[Laughs speaks up on the network very abruptly and sharply.]

What does everyone here know about Yakumo's overlay Edward?

[After moment, he adds: I have nothing definite yet, but as I said earlier, Phillip saw someone who looked like me try to post a batch of letters that looked like the letters of complaint sent to newspapers from various different people.

Edward's merlin sometimes looks like a nightjar, and humans have no sense of scent to speak of.

A guy [and he's lifestreaming the scent that will be recognizable as that of Utsusemimaru to anyone who can scent people as he says that] told me that Edward can imitate other people's writing.

So. What do we know about him?

[He might be overly suspicious because Edward now didn't just insult his poor toad baby, his pet tried to eat Saffron. But that's besides the point clearly.]

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[finalizes]

...Even if they discover someone else. If he can imitate people, anyone they find out to be the saboteur might not have been that person but him in disguise.

[razorblade_empress]

True.

If he is disguising himself, I wonder if that includes his scent.

[finalizes]

If he uses the same technique that he uses for his bird, then he either doesn't care to disguise the scent, or he cannot.

[razorblade_empress]

So that's one point in our favor, at least.

[For those of them who can take advantage of it, anyway.]

Wonder why he's disguising his bird.

[finalizes]

...Humans sometimes make certain animals illegal?

[He has no idea, but he knows that that is a thing. Are merlins illegal?]

...Or forbid some people to keep them as pets.

[razorblade_empress]

I don't think they make the animal illegal so much as transport of it in or out of a specific country or whatever. That tends to happen a lot to animals that'd be considered "exotic." Could be that his bird's one of those species.

[finalizes]

It's a merlin.

Is he showing her a memory of it?

[razorblade_empress]

Looks like some kind of falcon, or related to one. I think in at least some countries you'd need special permission to have a bird like that as a pet.

yes!

[finalizes]

So he might not have that permission and thus be hiding it... but would he not need one for a nightjar?

[The memory of the nightjar seems disjointed - it won't be as obvious for someone who doesn't normally scent that well, but the impression of scent and appearance being disjointed is emotionally attached to the sight. This time, the bird is sitting on Edward's hand and isn't just a generic memory of a bird. A small ID bracelet with a tiny clipped on nametag is attached to it. Bird, man and nametag are all clearly visible in the memory.]

[razorblade_empress]

That I don't know. He's talked about conservation in general, but not birds specifically. But then, if he's keeping his bird illegally he's probably not going to want to draw attention to laws about it.

[finalizes]

Maybe he's worried about being considered hypocritical.

[razorblade_empress]

Maybe.