Calixto's House of Curiosities was much easier to find during the day. He had erected a wooden sign above the door with a ludicrous font that invited you to be amazed. Kedi stared at it in slight disbelief as she clung to the shadows by the tall city wall. With a sigh, she ran a finger under her blindfold in discomfort before heading into the gloomy building.

"Ah! A visitor! Welcome, to Calixto's House of Curiosities! Prepare your simple mind to be amazed as I take you on an adventure through the world of Tamriel!"

Calixto emerged from the shadows and recited his spiel with painful enthusiasm, but as he opened his mouth to continue, Kedi held up a hand to stop him and studied him for a moment. He was an older man, thin, with greying brown hair that made a feeble attempt to cover the growing bald spot atop his head. His small dark eyes watched her like a predator and didn't sparkle the way they should when he smiled.

"I'm not here for the tour, I don't want to be amazed, and I don't want to prepare my simple mind for anything. I just want to know if you've seen anything like this." She pulled the amulet from her satchel and presented it to him, but kept it wrapped tightly in her fingers.

His face fell for just a second, but Kedi caught it. Something about him was familiar, and it was making her uneasy. He brought a hand to his chin after composing himself and stared at the object intently.

"Hmm, well, that is a fancy looking thing. Where did you find it?"

You know just where I found it, don't you… "On the road." She shrugged. "A bandit accosted me on my way here, and he was wearing that. What do you think it is?"

Calixto tried to grab it from her, but she held tightly, watching him with wary eyes. After a moment, he gave her a quick look of anger and settled for staring at it in her hand, but with all his movement, she'd caught a glimpse of the amulet he wore beneath his shirt – the amulet that matched the one in her hand.

"It's probably just some bandit insignia, or perhaps a rogue mage's trinket. Either way, I imagine it is of little importance. If a bandit had it, it was most likely stolen in the first place. However…" He tried to smile kindly, but in his eyes was the look of a hawk before it catches a mouse. "I will take it off your hands, for a sum of… Let's say… 100 gold coins? You won't want to be in possession of stolen property, now."

Kedi decided to play the part of the naïve, and moved her hand up and down, as though weighing the amulet. "That's true…" She widened her eyes. "Do you have 100 gold coins?"

Calixto's shark grin widened. "Yes, yes! One moment…" He disappeared into the back room, and Kedi took the opportunity to look behind the front desk, but she found nothing incriminating; only a coin purse and a small dagger, too ordinary to be the weapon that had made the unique stab marks on the victim. The shelves seemed to hold only spell tomes and various other mage and apothecary objects. He was obviously skilled in the magical arts, but that didn't make him the murderer. The fruitless search meant that it was easy for her to look as though she had only been waiting on him though, and so his suspicion wasn't aroused when he returned.

"Here we are, 100 gold coins!"

Now his eyes sparkled – he wanted that amulet. With the genuinely eager expression on his face, Kedi realised where she remembered him from. He had been present at the murder scene on the second night, his eyes sparkling with obvious pleasure as he stared at the mangled corpse of the young elf girl.

"On second thought, I think I'll keep it. You know, as a souvenir." Seeing him want the amulet so badly made her even more reluctant to give it to him. Perhaps he needed it to continue the ritual.

"But-"

"Thank you for your time, goodbye!" She ducked out of the building before he could stop her, and hid round the corner. She'd wait for him to leave in order to conduct a proper search of the house. All signs pointed to him being the killer, but she needed evidence.