Chapter 10.45 L

Chapter 10.45 L
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Chapter 10.45 L is the 92nd chapter of Volume 10. The L stands for Lyonette du Marquin.

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Lyonette does a number of things to maintain the peaceful days after the recent Solstice Event such as make a big breakfast for Mrsha, sing at the congregation of faithful Antinium, and go out shopping with Nanette and Colfa.
The Tax Collector Incident occurs with Lyonette and The Wandering Inn having to deal with the fallout of the decision to withdraw from Liscor's influence.
Lyonette learns of Tessa's situation in Tenbault from an injured Vaulont assuring to herself that she will help the Drake when she can.
In an intoxicated state, Lyonette is summoned into the [Pavilion of Secrets] by Erin with the two sharing how things been going since they've last met.
Receiving a request from Ilvriss through Nerul, Lyonette and the rest of her cohort make their way to Ilvriss's digging sight to put a Magical Door there for him.
Ilvriss and Lyonette share what they've been dealing with and the Wall Lord becomes shaken up by the changes to The Wandering Inn since he was last there but knowing the inn he takes it as it is.
Mrsha goes to school and takes a soft approach to being bullied by Rinni, Dalimont brings in Nanette to mediate the discussion with Rinni and is successfully able to establish a rapport with the girl through their shared pain of loss.
Ebente confronts Mrsha in the streets of Liscor, speaking privately with each other the [Caretaker] knows that she is not needed there any longer and is heading for the New Lands of Izril.
Lyonette learns of Rose's newfound powers of allure and seduction as she has become a Succubus through her dealings with Visophecin.
Ilvriss speaks with Pawn about the rift between him and the inn but the [Priest] gets an urgent request and sets forth feeling a calling.
The Mother of Graves sense the Antinium [Priest] leaving and begins to ramp up her efforts going back to sleep for whenever she's ready to attack.
While playing a game of cards, Rhisveri appears in a hurry and teleports Lyonette and Ushar away calling on the favor owed.

Mrsha wakes up for the day thinking on how Erin might've felt after she returned from being dead, her head is full of intrusive thoughts, yet with all that it's a pretty good day by her new standard. Everybody at The Wandering Inn was no longer under the illusion that something worse wouldn't come next with constant surveillance and protections set in place, Lyonette brings out The Archmage's Well; a hollowed out mountain of pancakes filled with syrup in the center covered in whipped cream, fruits and a number of other condiments and toppings, breakfast for everybody to partake in leaving many with bulging stomachs. Full of food, Mrsha makes her way to school meeting with the rest of her friends and sits at her desk daydreaming, meanwhile at the inn Lyonette remarks on Nanette's awful outfit as the girl plans to go out shopping later. Kevin arrives at the common room needing something for his hangover from the celebrating he did with the other Earthers, he knows that his disguise will fail in time and the reveal of his presence is hard on the others as it reopens once thought healed wounds but that it's a necessity because it's important.

In the Free Hive, Pawn delivers a sermon that seems very different to what Lyonette expected, at the end of his session he introduces Lyonette, Colfa, and Nanette who will be singing the song "Izril's Homecoming" for the Antinium congregation. The three sing fearing that no one else would join them, but then Singy and Bird stand up and begin to sing along which encourage the rest of the Antinium to join in. After dismissing the congregation, Pawn speaks with Lyonette about being barred from visiting the inn after the recent Solstice Event and is informed of the events that took place with his other self. Pawn calls for a sweep as there have been odd meetings with several Painted Antinium who speak with them about odd things, with plans to woo his former lover failing at the moment, Pawn curses his future self and goes out to join the hunt with Yellow Splatters.

Lyonette, Nanette, Colfa and the rest of their contingent walk through Invrisil shopping for clothing like [Witches] disregarding with others think of as proper, Lyonette notices the many stares with Ushar proposing that Ielane has probably taken off some of the obfuscation of her identity. After disguising herself with the change of her hair color they enter a fancy restaurant with a [Slime Chef] from Onononno who seemed dispirited. With Nanette leaving to greet Hedault and Colfa returning back to her farm, Vaulont notes that Lyonette's demeanor is similar to some of his previous employers when they ordered the killing of an entire family. Lyonette explains that she feels restless trying to continue maintaining these peaceful days while also trying reaching level 40, that she and the inn owe Tessa the help she needs and begins the making of a plan to capture and free her from the clutches of the Healer of Tenbault and Merdon.

Returning back to the inn Lyonette notices that the inn is leaking from the damage The Goblin King inflicted during his rampage, she learns that Earlia and her team are putting back the runes of insanity back in the trapped hallway, the inn staff devise a plan block the area from others so that the runes doesn't affect anybody passing by. There's a rivalry between the Non-Human staff and the Calanferian servants as they are sent to do their jobs, the Calanferians are appalled when they see Lyonette do menial work but their incessant to not have her work causes the [Princess] to rotate the staff around to stop bothering her. Nanette arrives telling Lyonette that the villagers of Rheirgest are having an Undead problem, as she goes outside to speak with Elosaith the Tax Collector incident occurred. The villagers and Arrema cheer Lyonette on as she has everybody ready up for the confrontation with Liscor's Council, the Calanferian servants are confused on what to do as they see the rest of the Wandering Inn staff create layers of defense against the many spies, agitators, and non-important guests from where Lyonette will be having the meeting. With the new magics put in place by Mireden Moore, Lyonette changes the look of the anchored scrying spell to one of the Zeikhal Desert and its blowing sands, Colfa arrives right before Liscor's Council enters the inn and after Lism's small freakout from the sight of Chandrar the discussions begin against the [Princess of the Inn].

After the talks with the Council, Lyonette confronts Mrsha about her being bullied at school with Mrsha expressing that the girl bullying her is just a nine year-old girl and that she has already taken steps to take care of it, accepting what her daughter has to say Lyonette goes on to speak with Raekea. Lyonette is feeling drained from the many conversations she's had but the thing that might push her over the top is Pawn constantly trying to engage with her in chatter, she learns that Liscor's Dungeon is releasing many enchanted suits of armor which are attacking travelers. Pawn tries to invite her and the other two to sing at another sermon but an emergency at the [World's Eye Theatre] takes Lyonette away before she can commit to anything, she finds Vaulont lying injured in an alley in Tenbault reporting that it was Tessa that gave him his wounds and that she is in a worst state than they imagined. Sending the Unmarked Coach to him for pickup, Lyonette scries up Tessa only to see the Drake convulsing on the floor, she tries to reach out to Tessa but an anti-scrying spell by the Terras Faction interrupts the [World's Eye Theatre].

Tired from the bad day, Lyonette begins to drink heavily with Arrema and Mireden arriving next to her to drink as well, Xinthe pleaded with her to stop being a bad influence on the children but gets lectured that what she's doing is alright. The next moment everything is frozen as Lyonette realizes she is being summoned into the [Pavilion of Secrets] hoping that nothing bad has happened, she sees the memory of Erin traveling in a hut on a beetle's back with Ulvama, the Fraerlings and Battle Hamster. Erin shares of the mishap she took part in with the Cottontail Raiders and she is there for their weekly check-in, Lyonette cracks and begins to pour her heart out with all of her worries to the [Innkeeper] and telling her of all that happened since they last met. What digging at the [Princess] the most is Pawn trying to rekindle their relationship and asks the [Innkeeper] for relationship advice to which Erin expressing not having much experience to begin with. In her drunken stupor, Lyonette makes advances towards Erin kissing her on the cheek which makes the [Witch] push the [Princess] off the beetle ending her time in the Pavilion.

Recovering from her fall with a couple of flips Lyonette begins to twirl around on top of the tables losing her dower mood after knowing that Erin is doing well, her joyous mood elevates the spirits of those in the inn to drink. The next day Lyonette recovers the Ring of Salazsar from Erin's room, but as she goes downstairs a [Negotiator] for Liscor's Council steps up to her wanting to talk, Dalimont finished with his morning workout halts the Gnoll from going any further, after appreciating Dalimont's muscular figure Lyonette meets with Vaulont for breakfast. He tells her that he feels that Hekusha panicked from something and began to generate as much gold as she could even to the detriment of her reputation, that Tessa is in a cycle of addiction from being recovered from the healing and in her heightened senses from the drugs was able to detect him. Accepting that she needs to something for Tessa soon but not now Lyonette meets with the [Negotiator] and sees that the Gnoll is getting completely outclassed by Nerul. Nerul is able make his way through the barriers the staff throw at him and meets with Lyonette, after the pleasantries are done, Nerul makes a request at the behest of Ilvriss if they can send a magical door as far north as they can so he can resupply as he became a victim of a cattle raid. No longer wanting to be reactive, Lyonette sets forth to bike her way north with a number of others following in tow, after a few hours of biking they meet with Ilvriss and his people.

While Liska leads the effort into putting the door in place, Lyonette and the others meet with Ilvriss and his guards as the Wall Lord shares of his troubles of finding the heart of Naamreles, the Walled City of Purity. With the magical door set and ready to be used, Ilvriss catches sight of the damage the Goblin King done to the inn and someone who should've been dead, with every strange thing he sees he asks if no one died from the Solstice Event which breaks the facade Lyonette had placed. He goes on to console the [Princess] with an awkwardly hug and then partakes in the inn's services telling the inn-folk of his troubles with the self-proclaimed Rancher-Nobles of the area with the inn-folk sharing what's been happening to them recently. They go over the mess surround Tessa and how they should deal with the barriers in place to help the Drake out of her spiral, that's when Lyonette gets told to turn on the scrying orb which is showing Zevara's chase in Pallass, Ilvriss relaxes getting used to the chaos of the inn by order a sweet drink for himself, Mrsha and Peggy.

Mrsha feels happy for Zevara since the Watch Captain deserves a win, even with all of the possible fates she and Root Mrsha watched not one showed Zevara biking down Pallass's stairs with Joseph kicking a ball to save the day. As things slowly diverge from the information she has gathered from the Palace, Mrsha accepts for now that she just needs to help where she can and asks Dalimont to take her to school. She arrives during lunch time and sitting with her friends they talk about school and the upcoming council elections, all throughout her day at school she is constantly bullied by Rinni at first by a yellat being thrown at her, to a nail placed on her seat in Geography class, to getting hit hard by a ball during play time. Understanding Rinni's pain after the death of her father from his involvement in Liscor's Volunteer Army against Hectval but not wanting to be bullied for the next few years, Mrsha knows that she has to do something about it. Mrsha confronts Rinni after school trying to talk to the girl about their quandary having to make Golly step aside before things got too violent, Dalimont then arrives with Witch Nanette in tow to mediate the conversation between Mrsha and Rinni. Nanette using a number of tactics is able to coax Rinni to tell them about her father, Nanette share about the death of her mother with Mrsha telling the death of her tribe to build a bridge with the girl.

After crying their heart out to each other the two girls hug each other as they leave, walking down the streets of Liscor hearing a candidate advocate for their election they get approached by [Caretaker] Ebente. Going to a cafe for a private chat, Ebente shares the intricacies of her [Caretaker] class compared one of a [Carer] and her past work history, then she asks the big question of if there was two of her to which Mrsha says yes to but that there was nothing that she could've done to help. Even with all her levels and favors Ebente could pull she doesn't know how far she would be able to run if she took Mrsha away, accepting that she's not needed she plans to head towards the New Lands of Izril as her senses are telling that she's needed there. Ebente asks Mrsha one final time if she needs help, after receiving a clear answer she accepts what little help Mrsha offers her in gold and healing potions and walks away. Adding Ebente to the list of people she respect and admired, Mrsha and the two others go back home.

Dodging Lyonette from seeing her red eyes Mrsha enters the [Garden of Sanctuary] to cool down for a bit before meeting with Ilvriss, moments later she opens a door to another garden wearing the gear she obtained from Warmage Thresk's treasury. Hiking up the sand dunes in the Chandrarian garden while listening to songs of the future with the W-Ring device, Mrsha continues to climb until Arrema arrives to retrieve her, Arrema shares that she plans to go to Salazsar to track Wer down as in her timeline the Walled City fell to pieces. Return back to the inn it's in a chaotic state after Zevara's chase with a lot of noise being made, Lyonette shares to the room that she's made contact with Erin and tells Ilvriss privately of what's really going on with the [Innkeeper]. The [Princess] goes to the Garden to a have a private chat with Rose as she feels that the girl has changed somehow after recent events, Rose reveals that she made a deal with Visophecin that grants her the power to be more alluring and seductive, a Succubus as she felt like was powerless before taking the deal. Moving on from Rose's situation Lyonette brings up her suspicions about Erin to Rose to which the girl shares her understanding of what the [Innkeeper] might be going through internally.

Ilvriss enters the common room of the inn speaking with some of the people there learning what else has changed in his time away, he sits with Pawn and the Painted Antinium being told that there has been a rift between him and the inn due to the events of the Palace. Pawn confides to Ilvriss about his broken relationship with Lyonette and how he feels to not be at fault for the chasm between them, Ilvriss gives what advice he can to the Antinium as they both are kept in the dark to what truly happened during that Solstice Event. Courier Salamani arrives bringing an urgent letter to Pawn that requests his immediate help, feeling the calling Pawn decides to go even without informing Lyonette of his decision leaving the note behind, Ilvriss grabs the note before anyone else tucking it away and then goes back to the party to speak with Lyonette.

Most don't notice the departure of the [Priest] but the Mother of Graves does as a fellow being a Faith, she waited in her fallen city for the day to come as it was promised to her but has become unsettled ever since the death of her greatest servant. With the [Priest] with the foreign power leaving she believes now is the time to strike as she slowly ramps up her efforts for the time to strike, she sensed a number of complications above such as the place of Sanctuary and a Dragon. Yet she has her means to deal with such threats, she goes back to sleep as she has forever to wait for whenever her General of Unhallowed Armor is ready as her children multiplied under their skin.

Lyonette returns to the party after her short chat with Rose seeing that Zevara has come to have a celebratory drink, refusing one herself after her last encounter with drunkenness she and the others joins a card game of Hoardbreaker lead by Ilvriss. As the card game was to begin Lyonette receives news that someone has teleported in front of the inn but calls everyone down as it is someone they know, Rhisveri rushes in into the inn seemingly in a hurry as he looks for someone, gaining Lyonette in his sights he calls on the favored owed and teleports him, the [Princess] and Ushar away. Ilvriss is dumbfounded by the reaction of the inn-folk as he sees that the inn has gotten him again as it always did.