Arion+Twenty+Seven

Decem Eight, Very Early Morning

As we say in the storytelling business, ‘the plot thickens’. I need some moments to work through what I do and do not know… Today started off well… We went shopping, and Keraph gave us a tour of the town. It was all quite lovely. When we wound up at the falls, however, things took a turn for the twisted side. I had told Keraph (more he had guessed really) that we were looking for the Gift. He apparently knew where to find it… it was in the same cavern that Kirin had crawled into the afternoon prior. He had friends waiting there for us with rope. Lovely. Kirin, being the great sport he is went in again, and actually found it! Things went well until we had him pulled up. From no where, Dunin snatched Jen, holding her hostage while we were all surrounded by Orcs. I would like to say I was surprises; taken completely off guard by his behavior, but that just isn’t the case. What surprised me was that Lia truly didn’t expect it. Keraph was right… she hadn’t been in on any of it. She was simply being used, much like the rest of us. Either way, in the ensuing tussle, the Gift was traded for Jen, Keraph attacked Dunin (whom he called Creeven), and both Keraph and Dunin took a dive off of the cliff. Kirin dove off after them, not wanting something to happen to his new assassin friend. Kaiden showed up on the scene with some of his woodsy friends and helped us out… one of his friends was an elf whom Lia seemed to know… I’m guessing he was from her village. From what I can tell, she hadn’t expected to see him ever again. We managed to piece together a rope long enough to lower Kaiden down the cliff, and he found Kirin at the bottom. We took the long road down, along with Kaiden’s companions. Long story short, we found Keraph, frozen and wounded, but never found a trace of Dunin or the Gift. Keraph has been poisoned. Lia says his wounds looked similar to the wounds Kirin suffered that afternoon we were attacked in Oriscina. I tried to find a healer in town, but none were willing to assist us. I believe Lia is still puzzling through an antidote to the poison. She had been worried that Jen was poisoned as well. But I’m guessing that what ever Dunin used to attack Jen is not what was used to attack Keraph. Yet some more distressing news is that Dunin apparently knows exactly where Eli is… has known all along. I am going to get with Kaiden to find the fastest way to send a message to them, but I am afraid it will come too late. On a more positive note, it is far harder to just go barging into Nys than it is to enter many other lands. Also, Mother is quite resourceful. Hopefully those things will be enough to keep danger at bay long enough for her and Eli to go to ground somewhere. Two matters to attend to. Eli, and Keraph. Two people in serious trouble… and we are supposed to be able to do something about it! Right! It would take us ages to get to Eli, and the only ones who might be able to help Keraph are unwilling to do so. If anything happens to him, I will see to it that his companions leave immediately with the box they came to retrieve… Obviously the person in need of its healing contents … Shit!!! 

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