[While Blanche looks over the tomes, Alaric heads on over to check out the weapons. Don't mind if he helps himself to one of these swords!! Maybe he'll also inspect this jewelry, just to see if it's magical. Yep.

Anyway, he glances back over when Blanche speaks up. His eyes narrow at the name.]

Vernier. [He doesn't need to tell her why that's particularly irritating.] I'm not familiar with a Gretel from that family.

[But honestly, he only knows a few names from the family, and that's only because of passing gossip. It's not like he's an expert on the family or anything.]

That gives us a direction, at least. If we can't find her, we can at least head over there and see what we can learn from the townspeople.

[Not that he likes that idea any, but the most important thing is figuring out who caused that storm and putting an end to them.]