Interlude – Halfseekers (Pt. 2)

Interlude – Halfseekers (Pt. 2)
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Interlude - Halfseekers (Pt. 2) is the 96th chapter of Volume 10

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Jelaqua runs away from The Wandering Inn tearing her body apart in the process.
She finds herself writhing on the grounds of Liscor's streets surrounded by a crowd of onlookers.
After gaining help for her destroyed body, Jelaqua and the group following search for a way back into the inn but are have a difficult time remembering how.
Kevin leads her back to the inn with Jelaqua meeting Mireden speaking on the legacy of the Halfseekers.
Entering the Drathian [Garden of Sanctuary] Jelaqua and Mireden discuss of his life from the other reality and how it differs from now.
A portal door to the Order of Solstice's Keep is open with Jelaqua taking a tour of the place, she enters their armory where all their magical flames are held gaining the pink flames of glory.
Jelaqua makes her first change to Maughin's home and returns to the inn having a grand old time playing around.

Jelaqua runs away from The Wandering Inn as fast as she can damning the wretched inn and it's [Innkeeper], racing through the streets of Liscor as her body is torn apart from the speeds she is going, she lays on the ground writhing as she is unable to comprehend seeing an older Moore and Kevin alive wondering what twisted thing has taken his image. Burying a number of friends Jelaqua was used to death respecting the concept very dearly but seeing those two put into question all that she knew devaluing death itself.

Repairing her broken body, she sees the Watch around her questioning her and a rude Drake being a stick in the mud, then Ambiese shames the rude Drake for his words and slaps him. Before things got heated the Watch disperses everyone and planned on taking the Selphid to a healer when a fellow Selphid appears offering their help, Hiveno speaks with Jelaqua seeing the poor state of her body and helps her mend it as she tells him of her story with The Wandering Inn. Of how their relationship was at the start to how the inn was owed something after helping them deal with a former teammate, but even with that there would never be enough to balance out the cost for the Solstice, yet she asked, and yet the debt was paid somehow with her worrying about the price for it. Jelaqua picks herself back up planning on walking towards inn with some of the onlookers wanting to join her, the thing is she and everyone else has forgotten the location of the inn for some reason.

The group retrace Jelaqua's step through Liscor trying to find a way back to the inn but are still confused when they reach the portal door, they decide to hear towards the Mage's Guild but see an Antinium [Knight] stand on the road. Inquiring the Knight, they learn that Rotellen is a squire from the Order of Solstice on a mission to make a request on the inn to add a gateway to their keep but has been lost for over a day and out of provision, he joins their group towards the Mage's Guild but on their way there Kevin on a bike arrives. Jelaqua asks Kevin who else came back and the price for it with him telling her that at least he didn't have to pay for it.

Kevin leads Jelaqua to the inn telling her how the obfuscation works as she hears Lyonette and Nanette argue about how they should've done the meeting with Jelaqua. After everyone settled down, Lyonette informs Jelaqua that they wanted to tell her the truth but didn't know how especially the one about the older Moore but it was the man's secret to tell, the Half-Giant then enters the inn with Jelaqua observing him and comparing him to the Moore she knew as he introduces himself as the uncle of the last Half-Giant of Izril to guests of the inn. They express their gratitude of the Halfseekers to Mireden and Jelaqua with Mireden discussing with the Selphid that even if the Halfseekers were okay with just being remembered that their legacy matters and should be more than just that, they drink sharing the pain of being one of the last members of their teams' raising toasts for the Halfseekers, the freaks of Izril and all those that search for meaning that eludes them.

Walking into the Drathian [Garden of Sanctuary], Mireden speak to Jelaqua of his life and gossip from his timeline like Pisces's messy love life and noting how things have changed in this reality planning to avert all of the Mother of Graves' plans this time. They both share their point of view during those harrowing moments as his world ended and her team destroyed, changing topics back to Wistram's new creations Mireden shares that he believes that the output for their more valuable items are extremely limited as it uses a very rare resource called seith. While Mireden has ways to counteract Wistram's expanding influence, his focuses are still aimed towards fighting against the Mother of Graves telling Jelaqua the story of how she died in his reality reminding the woman that she's now retired from the dangerous life.

Return to the inn Mireden departs to go do some work leaving Jelaqua to stew and digest what's been told to her pushing back Mrsha's retelling of what happened heading back to Pallass, but on her way to the portal door Liska has just connect a door to the Order of Solstice's keep. With nothing pressing for time at the moment Jelaqua takes a gander shocked to see them using Eater Goats as war beasts, after a group of Solstice Knights and squires leave to go face off bandits near Reizmelt Normen takes Jelaqua around their keep for a tour asking for advice as she is lead to the room where the magical fire is stored. There lays statue of Embraim, Halrac, Brunkr, Herove and Zanze with each holding their own unique flames, as a part of a new tradition of the Knighthood Normen offers Jelaqua a lantern to hold one of the flames that calls to her. She walks up to the many flames unsure of which one to choose walking back when suddenly the pink flames of glory envelop her emblazing the room full of its light. She's confused of why glory out of all of them would choose her but accepts the flame returning back to Pallass.

Gaining a new body, Jelaqua sits in her home gazing at the blazing, magical fire deciding that she doesn't care for the opinions of others and goes out into the city to buy something for the home and then takes Maughin to The Wandering Inn for dinner. Vhiren irked at Jelaqua for taking her son away from the dinner they had planned arrives at Maughin's home seeing the neighbors crowd around the house, she sees next to the door of the home are two stone plinths bearing the flames of glory. Jelaqua sits in The Wandering Inn having a grand old time playing around as Mireden returns back to the inn.