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For the next half hour, we rummaged the whole house. From top to bottom.
Drawers were pulled out and emptied to the floor. Curtains torn down. Pieces of the wall torn down to look inside. The floor wasn't spared either. We searched all his belongings, while I looked through the office space as best as I could. Our search didn't turn anything up, yet we continued. I was looking through his documents and folders, but all I found were old files and other things that weren't of any relevance.
'Anything out of the ordinary? Like a contract or...?'
[JUMPY MYTHIC] "Nothing but office supplies and menial things, lass."
[UNHAPPY MYTHIC] "And a whole stinkin' fridge fulla' rotten food. Phoowee!"
'Damn...'
I was sifting through everything he had. Password notebooks, login credentials, financial documents, city plans, the city plats, the- Wait. I pulled back the last thing I held. The city plat. The cadastral map.
[MAJORDOMO] "What use is that gonna be?"
I held it up, looking at it intently, walking into the living room that held he Mayor and the two disheartened Mythics, when the Mayor began to squirm, and moan. I exchanged another glance between him and the map. And that's when it began to slowly sink in.
'His power over the town, all the control he has over it that he bargained for... is all confined within the limits. He said so himself.'
[JUMPY MYTHIC] "A-Aye? And...?"
'The Mayor decided for Oakville, he said. He had to trick the Mayor into agreeing to manifest such a contract. But there's a clause he overlooked. His power is only within the town limit. Just the limit, including whatever life link he's threatening us with. So then, this is the cadastral map.'
[UNHAPPY MYTHIC] "That shows the town limits?"
'...It does. And if this map shows the limits, and the Mayor decides, then we can use this.'
[JUMPY MYTHIC] "But lass, how?"
'All we have to do, is get the Mayor to change the map. Exclude an area from the limit, mark it off using white out. Don't you get it? We can create an enclave within the town limits where he's powerless, and doesn't hold any advantages over me using this plat! All we have to do is make the change and then have it made official by the Mayor, who Mister Saturday posits as the decider for the town! Then, I can kill him and exorcise him for good!' I said, finding newfound determination.