>>5810142When you woke at dawn, the goblin and rolled onto her back. Lacking a perch, Hershy the drake-chimera instead crawled inside her bag, situating himself between her breasts with his tiny head nuzzled into her neck. Both their expressions were strangely peaceful. You regarded the incongruously-adorable sight for a moment, so at-odds with her waking self—bizarre! Were all goblins like this?
You turned your mind from the goblin and went to your window, looking out at the unmistakable spear of the Hawksong mages’ Tower, rising high above the surrounding Initiates’ Village to stab at the sky. You thought of what waited for you there—classes, and Izirina Henzler… And her adoptive mother, the Archmage Therea Henzler, the beating heart of a sinister Reptilian conspiracy.
The moment of truth was here. You had your witness—or the next best thing—and maybe your evidence. Of course, there was the matter of how to reach your estranged friend to consider. Before you’d left, she had rejected any notion of speaking face-to-face after you’d confronted her with suspicions as to her true nature. She hadn’t taken it well, and hadn’t spoken to you for over a year now. In response, you had engaged in a letter-writing campaign, leaving notes upon Izirina’s desk each day—sometimes delivered personally, sometimes by means of a <summoned> elemental… But though the letters were clearly being picked up, and maybe even read, the girl had given you no written or spoken reply, one way or the other. On the bright side, it also didn’t seem like she’d alerted the Archmage to your suspicions or your investigations—at least, you had to assume as much, since you’d suffered no repercussions.
Still, it made the whole matter of arranging a meeting between Zith-Zi and Izirina Henzler rather a difficult one.
How did you plan to approach this?
>Go to the school alone, and try to speak to Izirina during classes, as quietly and subtly as possible>Bring Zith-Zi with you—though you’d need to concoct a pretense to bring a goblin to the Tower—and take a direct approach>Send another letter, and ask Izirina to meet with you somewhere else… Perhaps the Mirror Maze where she’d first arranged to meet with you, years prior?>Send a letter instead to the Archmage—anonymous of course—stating that you know her secret and demanding a meeting with both she and her daughter in the former Goblintown area>Write-in 