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 ==== Ambush ====
-Meanwhile Keribrar and Hafwyn had set out for the Shady Tree and got lost. They wander around the edges of the market eventually crossing into [[atlas:Fountainhead#Crofteron]] without realizing it. Their first sign is when they turn down a street where everybody is gone. In front of them are three guildsmen and three more moved in behind them cutting off their escape. The men draw their concealed weapons and being threatening them. They don't want to kill them, just make sure they remember that Crofterton is for humans-only.
+Meanwhile Keribrar and Hafwyn had set out for the [[atlas:Shady Tree]] and got lost. They wander around the edges of the market eventually crossing into [[atlas:Fountainhead#Crofteron]] without realizing it. Their first sign is when they turn down a street where everybody is gone. In front of them are three guildsmen and three more moved in behind them cutting off their escape. The men draw their concealed weapons and being threatening them. They don't want to kill them, just make sure they remember that Crofterton is for humans-only.
 Beyond the group in front they can see two men with a large kobold, quite possibly the largest kobold they have seen - almost dwarf-like in appearance. The two of them feel the bond of Aegrin with the kobold and Kukla feels the bond with the two elves. Kukla is also knowledge enough about ambushes to see recognize it when he sees one. Unfortunately for the humans they seem to underestimate him and they have already lost.
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 Hafwyn, Kukla, and Keribrar arrive at the Shady Tree to find Thorne on the top of the bar mocking out a famous sword fight between [[people:Ember the Scarlet Storm]] and Captain [[Garshasp]] of the Stardancer. Several of the elves have also climbed on the bar or tables to help mock up the scene. There are "dead" bodies and overturned lunches scattered across the bar. They are so enraptured by his performance they fail to fully take in the beauty of this tavern.
-Hafwyn, for possibly a very long time, feels an immediate sense of community. She is overcome by emotions she buried as dangerous for the first time in centuries, maybe even millennia. She wanders around the room speaking with anybody not even noticing when someone stands up from a table on the second floor balcony and addresses her. She does on the woman's second attempt after the two guards she has with her also rise.
+Hafwyn, for possibly a very long time, feels an immediate sense of community. She is overcome by emotions she buried as dangerous for the first time in centuries, maybe even millennia. She wanders around the room speaking with anybody not even noticing when someone stands up from a table on the second floor balcony and addresses her. She does on the woman's second attempt after the two guards she has with her also rise and slam their staves into the floor with three large booms.
+==== Handmaiden of Ellowyn ====
+[[people:Alavara]] raises her voice and all conversation, laughing, and pantomiming stops. She is a hunter of the dark, a [[orgs:Handmaiden of Ellowyn]] and declares Hafwyn a Dark Elf before all not fit for the community. Her and her guards come down and face Hafwyn. In the name of [[people:Ettrian]] she casts the darkness from this land - and nothing happens. Into the silence Thorne interjects that clear she is wrong and Hafwyn is no Dark Elf. Hafwyn's laughter fills the room as she tells everyone that she has been cleansed by the [[lore:Great Tree]] in the tunnels beneath the city.
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+Hafwyn raises Keribrar's arm to show off the favor of the [[lore:Celestial Court]]. Even on different people the bracers clash, but this time Hafwyn and Keribrar are ready for it and drive it back. Hafwyn hides her burnished bracer, but Keribrar's flashes a brilliant orange before becoming a deep green that is almost too bright to look upon. The tree in the center of the tavern, bathed in the light, grows over a foot in height and sprouts new buds.
+Alavara tries once more to push the will of her patron and Hafwyn feels the darkness with her rise to the challenge. Hafwyn is able to drive it back, but she knows that she has not been cured, she can never be cured, but she will take the gentle respite for her millennia of service. With Thorne's biting words in her ears she retreats with her guards. Keribrar tucks his arm inside his tunic and leaves quickly, not liking the attention it has drawn.
+==== Explosion ====
+The tavern clears out after Keribrar leaves and Thorne stops his story-telling. Throne and Hafwyn are left alone with Kukla, the tavern keeper and his serving girl. While Hafwyn and Thorne discuss the who might have sent the assassin, Kukla puts his nose into trouble. In the kitchen he finds a space that does not exist. Using his claws he pulls back a few cut boards and reveals a hidden space behind. There are small brass cups, candle stubs, two magical triangles, and a smell of wrongness. He wonders who is at play here and surprising enough a clear answer answers in his head, [[people:Ellowyn]], [[people:Mardac]], and [[people:X'toltn]]. He leans the boards back so the owner can find it and deal with any repercussions.
+Kukla returns to Hafwyn and Thorne when there is a sudden explosion from the kitchen. The wall between the kitch blows out showering them with wooden splinters. Inside, black fire is quickly spreading and the serving girl is laying face-down by the small magic circle Kukla found. Thorne goes inside and pushes a small barrel of water over sending water through the kitchen. The blackfire has no problems burning on the water and spreads with it.
+Hafwyn and Kukla notice a barely visible shape darting along the walls. Hafwyn tries shooting it with her bow, but it quickly runs away, spreading the black fire with it. While Kukla chases down the salamander, Hafwyn then tries throwing dirt on the fire with Thorne's help, this works better than the fire, but just barely. Finally Kukla gets the creature, which now becomes visible. It is a large salamander, about three times normal size, and completely black. When they finally kill it the black flows off like thick liquid and turns to an oily smoke.
+The black flames turn back to normal and extinguished by the staff. They ask Hafwyn if she would bring back Keribrar in the morning to examine what happened.
+==== Watchman ====
+Thorne steps outside the tavern and spies one of the King's Guard dressed in laborer clothes. He runs when he knows he's been spotted. With Kukla and Hafwyn cutting off his escapes Thorne brings him to ground. He drags him into an ally and questions him - more gently than the assassin. Thorne sends Twinkleberry back towards his companions, who seem to have gotten lost during the chase, to lead them to him.
+When the others arrive Thorne puts the squeeze on him again. The guard admits he was sent by Etrin and has been looking for Lady Anne or failing that to find Hafwyn or Keribrar. During the interrogation he unknowingly insults Kukla who takes a strong dislike to the man and grabs his throat his claws. He squeezes a bit too tightly and poisons the guard. Several people heard the commotion and look into the ally to see if someone needs help. With this many witnesses Hafwyn, Thorne, and Kukla leave before they have to answer questions.
+They pass two other guards, summoned by the onlookers, at the mouth of the ally. Thorne convinces them he is just drunk and they were stopping him from choking on his own vomit. While they were "helping" the guard Thorne lifted his coin pouch for good measure.
+==== Encampment ====
+Keribrar returns to the encampment and tries to use the strange phenomenon created by Quilate at the base of the shelf. It helps a little, but he still feels undone. He then returns to tending to his small tree. It is not thriving as he expected, but is not sure why exactly - he is not one of the [[orgs:Arborists of Ethiald]]. An elven woman approaches him and asks him about his stick in a pot. After talking for some time he believes that she is lying to him, but she means no harm.
+Her name is [[people:Saeya]] and she is the one that made the bracer he now wears. She made it for her lover [[people:Aegrin]] before he left the arborists and became a legend. She now serves in Ellowyn's court and advises on those mortals who could be following a similarly destructive path. She looks Keribrar square in the eye and he knows she speaks about him. He begs her for a boon to help him and she relents.
+Saeya puts her hand in the dirt and pulls out a thick millipede. It crawls up her arm and she whispers something to it. When she returns the creature to the dirt it circles the branch and buries itself in the soil. She will ask for a boon from him in the future and wishes him the best on bringing honor to the badge he wears on his arm. Aegrin as an honorable man who failed in this task because he saw only a single path to victory. Thousands of bugs rise from the earth and cover her body, when they fall from her she is gone.
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