Tales From The Cahill Manor

by Paite-chan

Post Into The Gauntlet. Grace had said that there would be trouble, and there was. Now under threat of siege, some select Cahills find sanctuary in the Cahill Manor against the vile Vespers. These are their tales.

1. Prologue

After Grace Cahill's death in 2008, Alistair Oh began developing a manual mailing system alternated with the search for the Clues in a retort to solving the enigma with digital mail. After seeing the dangers posed by such technological advances in communications with the advent of hackers and computer bugs, Oh had decided to start from primitive origins and improved the initial faults posed with manual mailing; such as its tediousness and long delivery period. He devised a series of tunnels that were initially meant for cooperatives and experimented with blasts of air in order to attain the desired results. The system was finally perfected shortly before Daniel Trent Cahill and his sister, Amy, had won the Clue Hunt through the combined effort of representatives from each branch, including him. Making some minor adjustments to the tunnel system, he later granted Fiske Cahill and William McIntyre partial ownership of the system. The first letter sent using it reached a few select persons, with its contents as shown below:

Attention: To Whom It May Concern

Dear Recipient,

If you are a recipient to this letter, then it means that your life is in great peril. Recently, the shift in Vesper activity has reached an all-time high, and you are a suspected target for their ploys. There has been an unnerving increase in Cahill deaths—some being that of Agent Rolando Sy and Dr. Marvin Keene, two of our most influential cooperatives—and we suspect that you may be the next target.

If received, please contact back IMMEDIATELY and destroy any evidence of receiving this letter afterwards. Once your reply has been received, we will arrange your quick transportation to the newly-reconstructed Cahill Manor in Massachusetts. Bring only your essentials. Once at the Manor, you are not to return to your previous living quarters unless further notification. We pray that you may consider this proposal with great discernment.

Sincerely,

Fiske Cahill and William Gideon McIntyre, Madrigal Branch Leaders

FC & WGM

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Author's Note: Alrighty. After a virtual "exile" from fanfiction, I felt compelled to write this story on the grounds that reading the tenth book gave me inspiration. I was thinking of a fanfic that I could update with regards to uber-hectic schedule, as well as one that could ease my frazzled nerves after finishing the series. (I WHUNT MOAR.) Sorry about the super long hiatus on TGCR and SOTF! So much stuff swirling around my head... _