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[alt_bill]

I've had something passed on from a source inside the offices of the Prophet. I mentioned the short article printed this morning. There's a phrase the guards used that the reporter overheard--not a direct interview question, in other words, but the guards privately talking amongst themselves. I get the impression that it was without knowing the reporter was there.

The Prophet staff didn't know what the phrase meant, and apparently the editor thought better of publishing it, and so he ordered the reference cut from the first draft of the story. Which maybe was a very good thing: apparently certain highly placed people were quite incensed that anything about the matter was printed in the paper at all. (Who they were the source either didn't know or refused to say.)

Anyway: the guards were overheard to call the thing an 'octoboros anchor.' The source was very definite about the words. Not 'ouroboros.' 'Octoboros.'

Mean anything to any of you?

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[alt_poppy]

Well, it sounds as if it's a play on ouroboros, doesn't it? Octo- is eight, of course. (Octopus, octogenarian, October.) It's not an eight-headed ouroboros, is it?

One shudders to think.

[alt_alice]

Thank you for checking in, Bill.

And does that mean there are eight of these things? I'm hoping Albus saw Frank's message and is planning on stopping by sooner rather than later.

Pomona, Severus, if you could do what you could to follow up in person with him about the importance of a visit, that would be much appreciated.

[alt_bill]

Eight of the things...yeah. That's what I was wondering, too.

And anchor. Anchor to--or for--what?

[alt_poppy]

I suppose it's not entirely a surprise, whatever it means in this case. Eight is clearly a favourite symbol of the regime.

St Mungo's was told last summer to add an eighth member to their Executive because Our Lord deems it auspicious or some such nonsense. Put all noses out of joint because it means decisions end up tabled for lack of a decisive vote.