>>5890019>>5889921>>5889834>>5889833>>5889707>>5889653>>5889638>>5889626You don’t exactly like the idea of confessing… Whatever it is you’re feeling… By way of your ‘roguishly charming’ father. Honestly, a full year away might JUST ABOUT be enough time to sort out the complex feelings you have for Izirina and Costella. Maybe you’ll even find a way to parse out how much of this emotion originated in your enchantment and entanglement.
It’s really the werewolf that can’t wait.
“Tell everyone I’m safe and sound,” you say. “that’s all. And tell Oncyth…”
You pause, considering the complexities of the matter. You don’t want the dire werewolf left to his own devices, necessarily, but nor do you expect that the elves of Dappulyet will welcome him into their community with open arms. Werewolves are a tainted breed, after all; you were raised to be wary of them and to treat them as dangerous and unholy entities even BEFORE you saw (well, heard) this particular wolf-elf torture and eat a fairy. That it was an Unseelie Fey is a mitigating factor, but such barbarity still has little place among goodly elves.
“Tel him to stay close to this place,” you suggest. “Just not TOO close. I think I have an idea.”
You next approach Priestess Claniraae and the elders—including the familiar personage of Elder Venphrya. While they have spent most of the evening serving as intermediaries to the Divine Princess, Miannie is currently holding a spiritual council with the representatives of various Fairy Courts of the surrounding woodlands, who have heard tell of this rare, direct appearance, and have gathered to offer tribute and beseech her wisdom and aid. The floating figures, long frightened away by their dark kin, once more return, and by their presence enrich the whole of the place with a flickering, ephemeral radiance. In their presence, trees and bushes flower more brilliantly, springing into bloom even on this moonless night. You have no time to marvel at this, though; rather, this gives you leeway for a private consultation of your own.
