[Dead Heading] Paint Me a Picture

Archie wasn't really able to figure out who lived there, specifically. He began to question that aside from Julia running the Lost hostel, if anyone actually chose to house themselves in the official domain of the Onyx court. The Strip provided most of the Freehold's Glamour, and the fiefdoms were not public domain. The vast majority of the properties were linked with home businesses and apartments above the store fronts. .

The issue with selling was that the property wasn't worth much at all. Sedna did well for herself socially, but her financial situation was unknown; she only really wore Hedgespun but melded among the elite without trouble or shows of pageantry. If she had an issue with Chugunkin's activity, no one had heard anything. Archie also was rapidly learning just how many courtiers were linked to this project, and large swaths of land were being poked at for the last three years. Mostly Spring, granted, but Winter knew and participated with a quiet word here and there. There was construction coming down the line: a stadium was going to pop up and most of these neighbourhoods were slated for bulldozing, and the landlords couldn't be happier to accept the offers. It didn't feel like a hostile takeover of Nohoilpi's territory, but there was definitely an Emerald flag being planted square past the border. The only conclusion Archie could come to is that unless the Silent Arrow planned on murdering construction workers in their sleep as a show of nasty power, this was mutually beneficial and some sort of gesture meant to alleviate the tension between High and Low. An event center maybe was an attempt for more Winter-hosted gatherings? An embassy?

As for the block itself, he ran into the name Mordecai on more than one occasion. It seemed to be decidedly his haunt. Maybe he had a Bargain with one of the locals. The Ogre's purpose within Winter was unknown beyond his talent as a metal singer and quite a few of the bars there hosted him with his Darkling partner Cailleigh . This move definitely would be fucking them over in one respect or another, either mundanely or magically, maybe both.