After finishing up the talk with Tom, and finding the encounter in the Red Dragon to be more than a little unsettling, he follows his first lead: Briallyn Wintermorn, who could hopefully give him more information on the Ravenlock connection.

It had not failed to occur to him that the family, with it's fingers in everything, and hooks into everyone, would probably not be too thrilled about this. But corruption is corruption, and he's certain that there's no small amount of it there. Actions speak louder than words.

So, he headed to the boarding house and knocked on the door, hoping that this would turn up something more in his hunt to get to the truth.

"Tom sent me, ma'am," Rob replied, taking in the child (and wondering if this is the one that bites), then the woman. Knowing the WestEnd, he kept his hands in full view so it was obvious he wasn't holding any weapons.

He didn't have a whole lot of time to spare in trying to draw out information, so he just cut right to the chase with her. "I know this is probably very unexpected, but I'm looking for information about the Ravenlock family; their connections to Renna the Betrayer. I ran across one of them, and Renna in the Red Dragon earlier and there was certainly some sort of connection there. Given that she spent her morning murdering maybe thirty more people, all of them common humans who couldn't easily defend themselves with magic or enchanted weaponry, you can probably understand why this is a very important issue. I'm Rob Mitchell, from the Rhy'Din Vindicator Chronicle, and I'm really trying to get to the truth of a lot of things here -- the diminishing Watch, the murderers, everything. Can you help?"

Once he was safely inside, Rob took the offered seat, nodding his thanks. "Tom's doing all right, considering... he's frustrated and under the gun like the rest of the Watch, but he's still alive and still trying hard to do his job. But as for the Ravenlocks..."

The encounter at the Red Dragon. Start there.

"...I ran across one of them, I think it was Brian. I was trying to get him to talk about what was going on in the city; Tom had mentioned that the family treats Renna as kind of a 'black sheep relative'. Brian denied the Ravenlock family having any relation to her, but then she just happened to come into the Inn while Tom and I were talking, and I didn't fail to notice the amenable look they exchanged.

"Considering that he had just been talking about how he had tried to clean up the city, especially here in the WestEnd, you can well imagine why I would have questions about what he's doing sharing looks with a murderer himself."

Rob took the lemonade when the housekeeper brought it, with a quiet thanks, then looked up at Bri sort of hopefully. "What can you tell me?"

Well. Talk about a bombshell. As far as he knew, fathering a child with someone did count as a relationship, of whatever sort. Rob raised both eyebrows when he heard that -- it was more than just a little piece of news.

He had a feeling he would be talking to a lot of Ravenlocks, or ex-Ravenlocks in the near future.

For the moment, though, he wasn't sure what else he could ask Bri about the connections. And he nodded in reply to her comment on Travanix. "He did. I haven't had a chance to investigate what all's going on there myself -- Tom was the one who handed me the Most Wanted list, and his name happened to be on there. Have you had a run-in with him?"