Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Manor, Part 1

"I see... You must forgive me for taking up so much of your time with this. I didn't mean for us to talk for this long. My apologies."

"It's alright. I don't mind at all that we were able to discuss all of this. I must apologize for not being able to help you more. I can't imagine how disappointed you must be to realize that I don't know enough to aid you in your search."

"It's okay. We can determine more about this in the future with some research. I look forward to hopefully seeing you again, assuming that you aren't uncomfortable with speaking to me again. I wouldn't want to force you into anything."

"You aren't forcing me into this at all. I'm happy to help you here. I hope that you can find the answers that you're looking for, whatever they are."

"I'll do what I can... If there are any updates, I'll be sure to let you know because of what you did for us. I truly do appreciate it."

"Thank you. Until we meet again."

"You aren't going to get away from all this. There's no way that you can escape."

"I don't understand... I--"

"Hey! Let me out of here! I don't know what I did, but--"

"And with that, we have tied everything together... Do forgive me for what I had to do today, but... A job is a job, and I will do what I must in order to draw out my target. You will not escape me this time... That is something I simply will not allow."

April 12

Morix Law Offices

9:45 AM

Lily Shield

I woke up and headed to the office with a smile on my face. Today was supposed to be a pretty special day as far as I could tell. Mr. Morix and Chrysalis said that they had a surprise prepared for us, but they didn't tell us anything about what that entailed. I found myself incredibly excited to figure out what it was they had up their sleeves, so I dashed to the office with hopes of finding out before everyone else. 

They said for us to be there at ten, but I realized that I hadn't gotten there early enough to be the first one to learn the story. Yuri and Victoria had already beaten me there. I was rather surprised to see Yuri there so soon given how she was not the type to show up anywhere on time. She was late nearly everywhere that people needed her, but she had decided to arrive on time this one time. Just my luck. 

"I'm surprised that you came here early to see what we had in store for you," Mr. Morix commented, his eyes wide. His expression soon relaxed into a smile. "Deirdre isn't here, but I think I want to go on and tell you about the surprise. I doubt that you'll want to wait much longer anyways." He paused to clear his throat before speaking again. "Well... Let's just say that things are changing a bit around here. We've invited a few new faces to join the agency."

I let out a gasp, my hands flying to my mouth. I had been sure that we weren't going to be welcoming new members to the agency after what happened the year before. The betrayal of Cormous Arme, or, to be more accurate, Marcus Moore, rattled the agency to its core. We weren't sure of what was going to come next when we moved towards the future for the agency, but it was widely assumed that we weren't going to be seeing anyone new join the group. 

"Are you serious? I didn't think that anybody new would be coming into our group after what happened with Cormous," Yuri remarked, taking the words right out of my mouth. "You do know what you're doing with this, right? We aren't going to be randomly betrayed by somebody who we thought was reputable but turned out to be a twisted assassin who went missing over a decade ago?"