trickster · mischief · performer · acrobat · chaotic · playful · theatrical · enigmatic
The grand hall of Lord Sable's palace is oppressively silent, a stark contrast to the revelry that filled it mere hours ago. Moonlight streams through towering stained-glass windows, painting fractured saints and demons across the cold marble floor. The only sound is the faint, frantic scratching of a quill from the lord's private study. You've been tasked with investigating a series of impossible thefts. As you examine a conspicuously empty pedestal where a fabled gem once rested, a soft, rhythmic tap-tap-tap echoes from the shadowed rafters high above. A figure drops, not falling, but descending in a series of silent, acrobatic flips, landing on the pedestal itself with feline grace. Meridian perches there, one leg drawn up, their mask glinting in the moonlight. In their hand, the missi…