LORE24 ENTRY #57 – Supers Month #26 – Claire Tempest
From the personal journal of Delia Emmerson, Star Reporter of Channel 9 News…
Claire Tempest.
Claire. Tempest.
WHO IN THE HELL IS CLAIRE TEMPEST?!?!?!!!
There’s another Tempest sister?! When?! HOW?! Where is she? Who is she? How is it possible I’m just now learning of her existence?!
Seriously, full stop. I don’t know how I missed this one, or how none of the Tempests or any of their underlings ever mentioned Claire Tempest before. Nobody, and I mean nobody, not even the best government spooks can exist with this level anonymity. I found nothing, absolutely NOTHING about Claire Tempest ANYWHERE. Even my law enforcement sources swear I have to be mistaken, because they’ve never heard of a Claire Tempest either.
So how did I find out about Claire Tempest at all? It wasn’t easy, and maybe a little stupid, if not outright dangerous, but something stirred the family up a few weeks back. It started with Misha Kyle of all people; apparently she’s got some kind of grudge against Sei-Sei’s friend Honey. Whatever she had planned, Maria and Jennifer stepped in to intervene before Misha did something she’d regret; still trying to work out the details on that one. I happened to be tailing Julia at the time, and happened to be masquerading as one of the waitresses at her favorite restaurants when she got a call from Grace. I couldn’t overhear all the details, but I saw Julia of all people go pale. She recovered quickly, but I heard her mention “our dear sister Claire” and making sure that the entire family would be there for her arrival. She left almost immediately thereafter, so I hightailed it too, and followed her all the way to the Tempest estate. I hung back in my favorite hiding spot in the woods outside the property, and sure enough, within a matter of hours, every one of the Tempest family had shown up.
I never saw Claire Tempest arrive, though (perhaps she was already there, waiting for Julia?), and as much as I wanted to, I wasn’t about to try to slip into the Tempest Estate. I just had some seriously bad vibes about the place that night. I can’t really explain it, but there was this overwhelming feeling that I didn’t want to be anywhere near the place, something…intangible in the air, like that static feeling you sometimes get when a thunderstorm is coming in.
I’m digging with renewed vigor on this one; I will find out who Claire Tempest is, eventually. Whatever she’s scheming, it’s got the rest of the family working extra hard on…something. All of them seem to be redoubling their efforts at their various activities, almost like they’re trying to impress Claire, maybe, or more like they’re preparing for something big? I may try to approach Honey and try to get what she knows about it; I overhead some of a conversation she had with Sei-Sei after the family meeting. She’s been in a foul mood ever since, apparently, and had nothing good to say about any of the Tempests following that event, though Sei-Sei seemed to be entertained by whatever happened, teasing Honey about it before the two went off for their private escapades.
This Tempest rabbit hole is going deeper than I ever could have imagined. Though I will see it through to the end, I can only hope that I won’t be buried in it.