Session+30

**The Evening of The Heart Celebration, The Rescue of Rue and Ori from the Chaos World of Witch Hunters, and Our Return to a Broken Home**
 * 10-12-13 **

We arrive in Myth Coramanth, enjoy a delicious feast and gather around a big table while we travel and sort out treasure, passing it out to those who can use it. Everyone gets something and we send the scabbard off with Thorn to invest in a young friend (Boots). Wren passes out potions she's been working on in the alchemy lab.

Erevin had placed two choices on Yuki for our next plan... she had chosen rescuing Rue and Ori. We still continue to discuss all of the things that we still need to address... Unicorn / Strange Red vine fungus Queelest acting strangely Drow issues... the circle of 8, now 7. Rescues... Ori and Rue, Loch, and Esme The escape of the leader of The Black Mark Raven and The Mindbreaker The Clan of The Red Bear and Melar Events in Waterdeep

As we're discussing events, a young elven servant girl trips on Thorn's foot and spills wine all over Mali, apologizing profusely. Erevin brings her a napkin, "That's odd... normally she's very nimble." Mali looks around the table, nervously... the cursed gems were already destroyed by Crowe. Was that really just a bit of bad luck coincidence?

Axton announces that he'll be returning to Lyrabar because Alain has sent word for him... but there was no real word of any danger going on in the city. Shortly after, a messenger arrives from the Temple of Hanalil inviting all of us to celebrate the ritual of The Evening of The Heart at the temple. A festival of love and beauty to honor couples. Erevin and Thorn tease Yuki about her not wanting to attend such a celebration... and missing the sarcasm, she begins to protest until Thorn lets it slip that they were teasing her. We send our acceptance back at once.

Along with the invitation, a box arrives with 10 different pairs of rings... each pair is a matching set of animals and gemstones. We're informed that each couple is to wear a matching set. Erevin turns to Axton, "When were you planning to leave?" He nods to Erevin, "I was planning to leave right away... but..." The priestess of Hanalil is surprised to see him, "Oh... Lord Axton... we had heard that you had left already!" He shook his head at the lovely elven woman, "No, I haven't left yet... in fact I can probably stay for one more evening." Erevin nodded, "Excellent. I'm sure you'll find the event enjoyable." Axton peers at the priestess a little suspiciously as he and Yuki recall the handsome purple-haired priest, Tamaraith who was flirting with the priestess of Sune last time.

Kale teases Thorn, "It's most unfortunate that you don't have someone to pair a ring with..." When suggestions come up about Yienshul who had spent the majority of the festivities with the young thief last time, Kale says his sister is very busy.

Yuki picks the rubies and foxes for her and Axton. Kale picks emerald dragons for him and Wren. Mali and Ursus receive diamond unicorns. Posy chooses the amber bears for her and Uther. Thorn chooses the smoky quartz weasel set, keeping the extra in his pocket. Azarius gets the pearl shark set for him and Trieste. Erevin chooses amethyst wolves for him and Shri. Each of the guys goes up with the set of rings, asking them to accompany them to the festival and slipping a ring onto their hand as the girls accept. Each set of rings seems slightly enchanted, linking sympathy between the two rings.

Erevin sends the ladies off to the elven tailors to be properly attired for the event and Yuki is bursting with excitement! Each of the girls selects something scantily clad. He sends for tailors for the men as well, having them all dressed in fine fabrics. Erevin even wears his prince circlet. Kale nods approvingly of the dragon motif. Erevin gathers the men and shares a strong drink with all of them, "Gentlemen, here's to a good evening... let's go get them."

The moon is full and bright and the autumn night is chilly... beautiful hanging lanterns of gold and silver... even a few in red, paying homage to Sune. Fairy girls fly around us, happily, "You're so pretty! You're so pretty! You're so pretty!" Mali slips on the slippery marble steps, but Ursus catches her quickly, helping her to her feet. Wren leans close to Kale, "Do dragons curse people?" He looks over at her, "Well... I'd imagine maybe... if you called him a dirty rotten cheating liar or something..." She laughs softly, nodding, "Alright then." Mali goes to Yuki, worriedly, "I think something is wrong... I still think I'm under some curse." "Oh!" Yuki looks at her concerned, "Maybe we should step off to the side... I don't really know that it's appropriate, but..." she glances around, seeing several couples off alone in coves, "It seems that many are doing that.. so, okay..." As they go to step away, Tamaraith appears on the stairs, and Yuki pauses in her steps, "Oh! Wait... Just watch him walk." Mali nods agreeably, watching the handsome muscular elf walk down the stairs toward them. He comes down the stairs, welcoming all of us to the celebration. He seems surprised to see Axton in attendance, but remains polite and civil despite the daggers that cross between the two men's eyes.

Layers of pools among hot rocks with a waterfall spilling down from one pool to the next and to the next... Tamaraith escorts us to the highest point with a beautiful golden temple. An unearthly beautiful statue of a woman out front. Tamaraith gently rings a chime, sending out fairies to ring out multiple chimes to draw everyone's attention. Lady Dulcet, the blue-haired elven priestess, accompanied by the powerful warrior, Eltrue steps out of the temple, "Welcome all to The Festival of The Heart. This evening we pay homage to each other and to the ones we hold the most dear... Treat those dear to your heart with the utmost love this evening, and Hanalil will bestow her blessing upon you for the cold winter to come." Applause echoes throughout the garden of pools. She introduces Erevin Lionspaw and his companions as special guests to the cheers and applause of everyone.

Dulcet, steps forward, dropping her robes to the ground, revealing her flawless body. Erevin leans over to Kale, "Now that is worth applause..." Eltrue joins her, dropping his robe to reveal chiseled muscles. Yuki looks on with wide eyes, "Now that's an education..." Axton quickly puts a hand over her eyes and she struggles to look around him, "I need to see! These rituals! ...They're important!" Dulcet and Eltrue step into the pool, the water seemingly turning to a liquid gold, spreading out from the high priestess. She smiles and looks back, inviting the others to join them. Erevin and Shri are the first to drop their clothes and step into the golden pool, as he offers her his hand in. Ursus looks around, "No one said I had to get naked..." Kale turns to Wren, "I assume this wont be a problem for you?" Wren shook her head and laughed, dropping her clothes and stepped into the pool, Kale joining her. Mali skips over happily into the pool, dropping her clothes. Posy and Uther cannon ball in together. Yuki looks around nervously, and Axton lays a comforting hand on her back, "It's alright... just watch how those girls are doing it down there." He gestures below where girls are frolicking naked in another pool. Yuki turns around to see Axton already in the pool behind her. Everyone else already in the pool turns to look up at her as Erevin smiles invitingly, "Are you coming?"

Yuki sighs resigned to her fate, "Fine..." Marshaling her courage, she casually ties up her hair, baring the beautiful nape of her neck and slowly unties the single silk string, letting her dress cascade slowly, achingly down her beautiful body. Gliding over to the stairs, shimmering in nothing but rubies, she walks casually down the stairs into the gold pool, her eyes never leaving Axton's. Her jaw clenches briefly as she feels the eyes of her friends upon her flawless body but she holds her head high and does her goddess proud, a beauty of Sune among the pools of Hanalil. The golden surface of the pool acts like a mirror, only allowing shimmering silhouettes to be seen in the water. Thorn goes unnoticed as he pauses to watch Yuki slide into the pool and then rifles through the fine belongings distributed all around the pools, snatching little gems and pieces of jewelry here and there.

The water is relaxing and soothing. As we chat, we start to notice that our scars and blemishes disappear from the water. Minstrels play music, and Dulcet kisses Eltrue before she steps higher, water running off of her exposed body as she begins to sing. Her voice is melodious and flawless. A song of elven lovers, parted but reuniting. She pulls Eltrue up beside her and he joins her in song, though not with her graceful voice. She looks to all of us and we join her in her song and it slowly echoes out to each of the pools below. A water spout emerges in the golden pool before us, as the spectral spirit of Hanalil spins around in the water... so beautiful it brings tears to our eyes... and raising her arms, she twirls around gracefully, bathing everything in a gold light for a moment before she disappears. Applause erupts from the many pools, and Dulcet nods, "Truly we are blessed tonight."

As the moon grows higher in the sky, couples slowly make their exit. We return to the palace after a delightful evening. Axton says his goodbye to Yuki early in the morning, much to her dismay. Erevin wakes up, covered in Shri, and asks if they can stay... she laughs and bites his ear.

As we gather for breakfast... we notice Thorn looks like crap... kind of looks like he's bruised with a black eye... but everyone else looks amazing! Shining and beautiful! Erevin asks Minastes to keep an eye on Queelest and watch for anything amiss and he drops off his special bow with Attalicus in the White Tower to begin enchanting it. We board the Destiny and Thirteen exclaims that we all look sparkly... except for Thorn.

We re-enter the astral sea and Gregori helps Yuki with the ritual to form the red strings to find Rue and Ori. Our gifted beauty fades as we leave the sphere of the goddess. Whitestrake turns the boat with a crackle of energy and we head off. An indeterminate amount of time passes as we travel. We can only guess by our patterns of sleep that it takes about a week.

We get to the sphere, the land appears like shiny brass in the strange multi-arrowed out shape of a "snowflake". Rolling hills and a beautiful forest with a city far in the distance. We disembark with Kale and Vhoori with us. Kale casting a sideways glance at Wren as she smiled innocently and took his arm. Thorn riding Mr. Piddles, we walk through the forest. The critters and the trees seem mostly similar to ours. As we walk we see slippers and ripped perfumed silk caught in the bushes... remnants of Ori and Rue's dresses that they wore at the wedding. Heavy with scent, Erevin tells us it's only been about 12 hours. Relief mingles with worry over Yuki. Erevin and Vhoori take the lead, tracking the distressed footsteps of the two young women until we come to wagon tracks in the road, where the footprints vanish.

We move toward the rising chimney smoke in the distance, heading in the direction of the wagon tracks. Yuki notices that a large ruby is missing on her new rod... Erevin asks if they disappear when she casts a spell, but she hasn't used it yet. Yuki asks Thorn directly if he stole it... he looks a little offended and denies taking it. We move on as Yuki strokes her rod a little forlornly. Thorn places the human mask over his face, walking Mr. Piddles beside him.

Humans walk about in a little town with a temple in the center. A gold-armored man with a large hammer and some lightly armed men. Farmers wander about. Vhoori returns to the ship, Wren hugging him farewell. We all enter the city together, greeting the gate guard who observes Erevin, Wren and Kale warily, "You are a far way from your home, elf... there'll be none of your magic here?" Erevin nods agreeably.

Speaking with a young boy sitting on a fence in the fields, we find out that there was two women dressed like Yuki... witches!... The great witch hunter, Yohann Vonhell apprehended them and sent them with a group toward the capital, Aldorf... about a half a day ago. Yuki slips into a shed to use her ribbon to change to peasant clothes. We consider a plan of Thorn taking Wren, posed as his witch prisoner... but we opt instead to go with Erevin's plan to use the ship to beat the group to the city and cut them off, hoping that traveling with their prisoner wagon has slowed their travel way down.

Erevin mingles into the crowd to observe Yohann conversing with a priest of the town. The priest is trying to settle the crowd, assuring them that the witches are gone, "Praise be to Sigmar for showing us the light in the deceit of these two witches and their blasphemous power!" A story is told of a peasant, Hanz, who's foot was run over by a wagon wheel... when these ladies came up seductively, offering their services, praising some pagan god and his foot was healed! Yohann signifies the guards to take Hanz away for allowing such women to use their magic on him! "Let this be a lesson to all of you... witches are everywhere! Bask in the light of Sigmar and you will be saved."

Wren stands closer to Kale, ever warily watching around her, "This place is evil." Yuki rants and raves about how barbaric and stupid these people are! Erevin rushes us all back onto the boat and we fly through the air, peasants pointing up with wide eyes in panic at our ship.

A huge city, gothic and tall... sits at the crossroad of two rivers. Along the road toward it, we see a traveling group with a large cage on a wagon, protected by a circle of witch hunters and guards as they walk in the drizzling rain toward the city. We hover the Destiny in the road before them and disembark, cutting them off.

Thorn stealths, circling around to the back of their group to try and get the girls from the cage while Erevin steps forward with Posy at his side, Yuki, Wren and Kale right behind them to address the group. The lead witch hunter approaches us slowly, riding his horse along the path. Erevin calls out to him, "Captain is it?" The lead man nods, "Captain Hockenfellz" Erevin flourishes out his cloak, "Pardon, good sir, I believe there has been a misunderstanding." Hockenfellz seems unimpressed, "Your elven warship is in our way. You are in the territory of Emperor Carl Franz. Withdraw! Immediately! ...or face his might." Erevin stands a little taller, "That is your second misunderstanding. If you look carefully, you'll see she bears no guns and is therefore not a warship. Or are you slower than the man who gave you your orders?" Hockenfellz continues closer on his horse, "No ordinary ship flies with elven witchery... what is your purpose here?" Erevin calms his voice slightly, "I am here to reclaim my property that you have captured." "These witches are now the property of the emperor and the ryke for practicing their foul herassies within the border of our kingdom." Erevin nods, angry, "Returning to your first misunderstanding... as those are not witches... Have you not those who heal fellows here? ...or do all the witches that plague your kingdom run about healing folk?" Hockenfellz, sat on his horse arrogantly, "We have healers who are worshipers of Sigmar... but THEY are not worshipers of Sigmar. The only others that heal are foul cultists of chaos... seeking to soothe men... to lure them in... break their will." The longer they spoke and the closer the witch hunter got to them, the darker and angrier Wren became. //Witch hunters...// She stared at him, imagining him strung up to his own burning stake. Hockenfellz pointed to Wren behind Erevin accusingly, "I see the way that one looks at me! Your witch!" Erevin didn't even glance back at Wren, he simply continued talking straight forward with the witch hunter captain, "She looks at you thusly because you have our sisters." He shakes his head, "They are no elves..." He snaps his fingers and one of the guards reaches through the bars of the cage to grab Ori by her hair to expose her round ears. Erevin could hear Yuki squeaking as she trembled angrily behind him, and Wren to the side starting to growl. The princely ranger raised his hand as though to say stop, "Good Captain, I beg you... Release them and there shall be no blood shed today... I ask thee as a man of honor." Hockenfellz waved a dismissive hand, "If you were a man of honor, you'd know that i'd give my life for the emperor and the empire!" Erevin sighed heavily, "And so you shall..." He swept the bow off of his shoulder and sent a barrage of three arrows as the captain raises his strange wand that releases smoke with a bang. One of the arrows is caught as the captain snaps up his cloak, but two go into his chest... and the bullet sinks deep into Erevin's shoulder. The great wolf at his side, lunges forward at his command, "Mari... Kill him." Yuki turned toward the group ahead of them, calling out, "ORI!!! RUE!!!" Thorn used the conversation to his full advantage, sneaking around to the back of the group.

Two witch hunters cut across the grass toward us, moving with deadly speed as the Captain calls out, "Get them! Burn the witches!" Two more witch hunters and the guards move in closer to the wagon. They pray to some strange amulets. Erevin looses more arrows as Mari charges forward. He nods to Wren to unleash her fury as a full distraction away from our halfling. These witch hunters are nothing like Jerrandis... they move professionally with great skill and all of them are looking at Wren. She takes flight, angrily growling out, "How DARE you accuse THEM of being MY kind! Do not insult me!" Lightning flashes through her wand in a line! The guard standing near the witch hunters lights up with his halberd... he drops with lightning still flickering over his metal armor. The two witch hunters look blackened with their hair standing a bit out. Kale charges forward to slash into the witch hunter on the horse near them.

Posy charges forward with her great brute strength, hacking into them with her axe and claws. "What the hell is a halfling doing with them?! Halflings are cooks!" She growls out even more, tearing into them with fury, "I am NOT a halfling!" Two witch hunters and three guards surround her, one of the guards yelling out, "Ahh! Kill it! Kill it!" One of the witch hunters turns and shoots his cold iron slugs into Wren's body from his strange wand. Wren grits her teeth and fights back her screams against the cold metal causing severe pain as sparks continue to dance over her wounds and her magic starts to bleed out. Hockenfellz leaps off of his horse as Kale and Mari take swipes at him, he puts another bullet into Erevin, "He who consorts with the witch must burn with the witch!" Erevin casts him a dark glare.

Two guards stay by the wagon, one of them freaking out, "There's a whole bunch of shit going down out there!" The other tries to calm him, "Let the witch hunters handle it! ...They're witch hunters!" The first nods, calming, "That's a good idea, Bob!" Thorn lights up a smoke stick and quickly stealths up to the back of the wagon, dropping it to spread smoke out. The guards flail about in the smoke, "The wagon is burning! We knew it! They're witches! They're trying to free themselves!" Coughing and hacking, they stab their swords blindly into the cage and back away.

Yuki uses the sacred bonds bracelets to heal Wren and Hockenfellz glances at her, "Another witch!" She glances at him, "You're so stupid! I'm not a witch!" Wren fights back the pain of the cold iron, her will fighting to hold onto the magic that continues to try and escape her wounds. She calls her black Raven, sending him out to dance as a bow against a guard and sends out black tentacles on the cluster of men around Posy. They reach out and grapple onto the people surrounding her, missing only Posy and one witch hunter next to her. Posy gashes into one of the guards as he dangles in the air, finishing him off. The other witch hunter escapes the tentacles and the two play off their skill working as a precision team against Posy, slashing into her deeply! Another witch hunter throws a vial into the tentacles with a hiss and pop, causing the tentacles to fade away.

Thorn tosses two invisibility potions into the wagon, "Ladies, quickly... drink these!" They both turn to look at him, "Who are you?" He points at the bottles, "Quickly now! Yuki said for you to drink them." "Yuki!" They call out in unison, "She's here?!" Thorn stares at them, "Why are you still talking? Drink." They drink down the potions quickly, fading from view. Yuki bravely steps closer to Hockenfellz, sending out her ribbon to caress out her healing over Erevin. Erevin tumbles backward and launches two more arrows into him, dropping him to the ground, and as he still crawls forward... Mari comes up and rag dolls him, shaking the last bit of life out of him in her powerful jaws! Wren gasps out in pain as part of her magic is ripped from her body from the cold iron still inside her, she casts out blink... fading her body back and forth between this world and the ethereal world. Kale and a witch hunter dance in a battle of great skill below her. More guards join the circle around Posy, trying desperately to take the raging gnome down. Thorn pops the lock on the wagon and the two invisible women follow him out into the woods. Yuki caresses Erevin with her ribbon, bestowing him with great heroic inspiration. He moves to cut off the advancing two witch hunters with Mari, keeping them from Yuki. More magic seeps out of Wren and finally the pain subsides to an ache, she turns to the witch hunters, and opens her mouth, spewing forth a swarm of wasps that cover one of them, stinging him with poison.

Posy, surrounded by 5 and being consistently beat on, she activates her ring of retribution! A wave of fire explodes out from her, instantly killing 3 of them. Doug is the only guard left alive, and he turns and runs, crying out for Bob who's body is burnt on the ground. The witch hunter throws up his cloak and steps back from the fire only to charge back in on her afterward, "Another witch! They're all witches!" The witch hunter, swarming with wasps turns from Erevin and vaults up to attack Wren in the air, striking her body precisely between its ethereal fades! Kale continues to battle another witch hunter and Thorn runs with the two priestesses toward the boat. He starts to see specks floating in the air around the city, moving toward the boat. Erevin directs Yuki back and she calls out to Posy, "Pull back!" as she sends out a warm wave of healing around the rest of the group. Erevin vaults off of Mari to turn back, shooting arrows into the one still left on Posy as Mari moves in to help Kale, killing one of the two. Wren's wasps and Cirdan take down one of the witch hunters behind Erevin and lightning bolts the other to his death. Kale finishes the 2nd on him with a heavy strike. Posy, still raging, ignores the call, and claws into the witch hunter still with her... ripping into him deeply... but she notices Vonhell speeding rapidly toward us on his horse coming from the village. Yuki turns and calls Gregori and Whitestrake to bring the boat. Erevin and Wren shoot out arrows, trying to lay cover for Posy who destroys the last witch hunter and turns to run with the rest of us toward The Destiny. Vonhell is moving toward us at an unnaturally fast rate. Yuki heals Posy as we run. We see the specks coming out of the city become clearer and we can see that they're gryphon riders coming in fast! Whitestrake and Azarius power up the ship, but Azarius calls out that something is wrong as the boat shudders. Gregori runs back to us, "I think we may have damaged it last time we made our quick escape..." We fly, unable to port out... slowly outrunning the 60 gryphons who follow us for a long distance. We lose them after an hour or so...

Rue and Ori sandwich Yuki in a big hug, "You rescued us! Where have you been?! It's been like half a day!!" Yuki sighs happily with great relief as the others look around at each other. She takes them down to the bar and tells them it's a long story... "I got a boyfriend!" Rue and Ori look at each other and start laughing. Yuki flails, "No really! Axton!" They continue to protest, "It's only been a half a day!" Yuki sighs and sits them down, "It's been about 8 months for us..." "That's crazy!" Amynta joins them as they all chat and giggle at one of the tables.

We put down the ship in a small lake, posting guard watches as Azarius works on repairs. Wren looks pale as she leans heavily against Kale, the dull ache of the iron still weighing on her. Yuki gets her to lay on one of the tables and working with Dominic to send Wren into a very happy colorful world, she gets the slugs out of Wren's body. Erevin sends everyone to sleep while he walks the deck with Gareth and Sir Reston, guarding.

Yuki dreams of an unnaturally incredibly handsome man with alabaster skin and pink hair. His voice is beautiful and melodic. He introduces himself as the Lord of Beauty... "I can not help but hear your lovely prayers to your goddess... she is not here." He offers to grant her prayers, but Yuki shakes her head, not wanting to be unfaithful to her goddess. Almost hooking her in with subtle suggestions of just a little prayer granting as a fellow god of beauty... she fully believes that Sune is a possessive goddess and would be very jealous. Yuki looks at him, "By the way... its a very sweet offer, what's in it for you?" He leans close to her ear and instead of that melodic voice, she hears a deep, gutteral cacophony of perversion and horror, "I'd get your soul, little priestess!" She looks back at him in horror to see his eyes have changed to jet black! His hands have little penises on his fingers. Perversion and creepy. She wakes up screaming, "KIIIII YAHHHH! EREVIN!! WREN!!" She runs out in her little pink nightie and runs into Thorn and Wren who hug her and comfort her. Wren gets her tea and the two of them guide her up to the deck in her little pink nightie and fuzzy pink bunny slippers where Yuki throws herself into Erevin's arms. Taken aback as she's crying out about penis fingers and evil gods. He slips his cloak around her, comforts her and tells her to try going to get more sleep, as she's safe now. Amynta, Rue, and Ori join us up on deck, dressed in little nighties. Thorn leans back and watches. Wren takes her back to her room and the Sune priestesses all pile in with the witch in her bed. Erevin checks on Shri, but she is fine and unvisited by any evil chaos gods. Azarius works tirelessly through the night. Yuki consecrates the ship to protect it from anything clinging on before we leave the sphere.

A week's travel back, Wren spends a day in the alchemy lab to replace Thorn's potions. We reenter our sphere, appearing back over the forest of Rawlinswood... as we look out, trees have fallen, buildings have toppled to rubble, things have been grown over... Myth Coramanth has fallen! We look off the deck, stunned. The feel of the elven mythal is gone. Wren, Kale, Shri, and Crowe step off of the ship with Erevin, followed by Thorn, Posy, and Yuki. Erevin trips on a skull and as he reaches down to pick it up... two elven arrows impact a wall just above him. We turn to see Minastes, the leader of the rangers. Erevin raises his hand, "Mina!" She looks at him, shocked, "Er... Erevin?!" He nods to her, walking quickly to close the gap between them, "What happened here?" She shakes her head, still stunned to see him, "You disappeared... We haven't seen you in ... 25 years." Chills ran down everyone's spines. Mina drops to one knee, "Thank the gods your back... King Erevin." Gasps echo out through his companions. Erevin shakes his head at Minastes, "Don't say that! She can't be dead! I don't believe it." Minastes bows her head sadly, "Follow me..." She leads us all through the rubble of the palace to the throne room where the moonblade is still impaled into the throne. Tears slip down Wren's cheeks. Minastes shook her head, "I could not touch it... You are it's rightful heir." Erevin looked at his mother's blade and then back to the ranger leader, "Who did this?! When?!" She thinks back, "It must have been 5 or 6 years after you left... the drow came." Wren shook her head, "Where was Raven and the witches? Were they not here to help stop them?" Mina shook her head, continuing, "After that... this god that you had spoke of... Ghanadaur ... he tried to break in to this world... In Lyrabar, I hear that they managed to seal the gate before he was able to manifest fully into this world... but... so many died..." Erevin looked at her, "Does Lyrabar still stand?" Wren and Yuki hug onto each other as Mina shakes her head, "All gone... though I've heard the survivors there also fled to Sanctuary in Damara." Yuki brightened slightly, "Silvermane!" Mina shook her head slightly at the young priestess indicating he too was no more... Wren trembled... Myth Coramanth... Lyrabar... both had fallen. Some of the greatest heroes of the world now dead. Tears continued to drip from her defeated eyes. Minastes turned to look back at Wren, "Your mother... she was with them." More tears began to stream along her cheeks, and she started to sob. Erevin turned back to Mina, "With them?" Mina nodded to him, "She slew many of our people... she had no reason in her eyes... her mind seemed broken." Wren barely managed to whisper out, "Noooo..." between her sobbing tears. Mina continued, "I don't know what happened to the rest of your sisters... but your nest is dangerous." Yuki laid a hand on Wren's back and turned to Erevin, "Put it back... The ship." He peered at her, "What do you mean put it back?" Yuki was trembling, "Time changes on the ship. If we could just figure out a way to go back somehow..." Mina looked at Erevin, "I could not retreat... I am a ranger... and I will guard this city til I die." Erevin threw his arms around her, followed by Yuki, and then Wren in a big group hug. Minastes breaks down, sobbing. He hugs her tightly, "How many of us are left?" She shakes her head, "I don't know how many made it out... High Mage Aspen was able a good number away. The women and children... to Sanctuary." Yuki shook her head, "What about Attalicus?" Mina shook her head, "He was bright star before he fell..." she turned to Erevin, "Right alongside your mother." Erevin walked to the throne and picked up his mother's moonblade, a blue glow projects out from it. Spectral images fan out in the glow... Horitsu is among them. She steps forward and caresses her son's cheek. He shakes his head, "I am sorry... I will find a way to put this right... or by god i will burn all of the Underdark." Horitsu raises her hand and points to the Northeast, the dwarves of Eisenhammer. Erevin looks to Mina, "The day I left... I asked you to keep an eye on Queelest... was she with them?" Mina shakes her head, "I'm not sure... I don't remember seeing her body among the dancers when the drow fell upon them." Yuki looks guilt worn, "My selfishness did this Erevin..." All of them try to comfort her.

We talk with Azarius, Gregori, and Destiny on the ship. Destiny tells us that indeed the ship has the ability to travel in time... before... it would travel to the great battles, no matter when... and arrive when the need was the most. She tells us it may be possible with help... "There was one... when I first came to this world. He was a master of time magics. His name was Venchelay." We recall that was the name of the mayor in Sanctuary.

We fly to the west... heading to Sanctuary.