Interlude – Halfseekers (Pt. 9)

Interlude – Halfseekers (Pt. 9)
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Interlude – Halfseekers (Pt. 9) is the 103rd chapter of Volume 10.

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Jelaqua—after a bit of pushing from Maughin—enters The Wandering Inn bringing along the orphans.
Arrema argues with Mireden about the way he's doing things with her planning on leaving soon, Mireden recruits Typhenous in his efforts to fight against the many foes they'll face.
After renaming their ship to The Halfseeker's Promise, Seborn and his crew land in the port of Inserelad’reanum obtaining supplies.
Seborn watches in a pub the fight between the two Archmages noticing an odd face in the mix, they get interrupt when the Minotaur [Captain] Hilyed enters the bar to capture a certain Drowned Man for a bounty.
Leaving the port city in a hurry Seborn and his ship enter a magical storm as the only means of escaping the superior Minotaur vessel chasing after them.
Jelaqua and Mireden—through the [World's Eye Theatre]—arrive at Seborn's ship with the three having the long needed discussion, after arguing they split ways planning to talk later.
Hilyed decides to stop chasing any further with Mrsha making a request of the Minotaur to petition someone on the behalf of Calruz as there is new evidence to prove his innocence.

Jelaqua hesitates writing to someone as she just listened to the news—of Shifthold being repulsed at Treant's Farewell to the Mage's Duel between Archmages—making her not wanting to go to The Wandering Inn at the moment, but Maughin deliberately makes the Selphid go to the inn with a bribe worth salivating for. Jelaqua and Anamariss enter the inn to see Calla instructing her choir for the performance Mireden commissioned, after the kids from the orphanage were seated in the inn Jelaqua asks Ishkr where she can find some people and requests to use the theater for a chat. Ishkr introduces himself to the Selphid's guests with the kids noticing Archmage Valeterisa practicing magic with her cohort of other Mages.

Arrema harangues Mireden for the stunt he pulled but he tersely retorts back that while he might make mistakes that so long as they are not ones that cost Liscor everything that he considers them worth the effort in making, backing off from the heated conversation Arrema asks about his current efforts against the Mother of Graves with him sharing the steps he'll have to make for now. He in turn asks her if she wants to stay with her declining staying at the inn or Riverfarm, she decides then to say her goodbyes to travel having mixed feelings about the whole thing. Maintain the well of emotions inside himself Mireden introduces himself to Typhenous as they have a walk talking about Typhenous' reason for not following Revi to his background as a Face to the guilt he feels for the suffering and death that he caused with the Griffin Plague. Typhenous desires to know the consequences before agreeing to anything before they start taking about the type of crew Mireden want to recruit for his plans, the Half-Giant drops the name of Regis and what the man plans as one of the many foes that they will have to deal with and then departs sinking Traffy in the ground when no one was looking.

Seborn waits for the horrible news to come his way as he teaches his new crewmates the job, the Drowned Man was rather surprised to them be competent in their first few days out at sea taking their vessel westwards away from the coast of the Hivelands. Seborn notices that the maps they have are outdated—made before the shifting of the currents—and that they likely have someone chasing after them, after a bit of talking the crew has decided to rename the ship celebrating by breaking a glass wine on the side of the hull. Mrsha—using the [World's Eye Theatre]—appears before Seborn with them discussing events that transpired since they've last met planning to return for her checkups, three weeks later the ship makes it to the next port with Mrsha telling the team what to expect from the colony city of Half-Elves. They spent a week in Inserelad’reanum gathering supplies with Seborn staying in the city for now as he felt his teammates weren't ready to go into the New Lands of Izril, while in a pub they watch on the scrying orbs the Archmages' fight with Seborn becoming flabbergasted from the sight of an older looking Moore on screen. Hilyed announces himself to everyone at the bar and inquires Seborn about him and his ship and seeing where this is going Seborn and his team run out the pub getting to their ship, the Minotaur [Captain] is stopped from pursuing them at the port.

They had around an hour head start at before the superior Minotaur vessel caught up demanding them to stop with the only chance they have of escaping is entering a magical storm named Thiborkilj, entering the storm images of Jelaqua and the familiar Half-Giant appeared before him. They talk about the mess Seborn is in and the events that happened in the [Palace of Fates], the three begin to argue throwing out harsh words to one another for the poor decisions they'veve made making it seem to the children watching that it was almost coming to blows. But soon they cool their heads discussing and arguing like a true family would, The Halfseeker's Promise suddenly gets hit with something making the two say their goodbyes planning to talk after Seborn survives passing through the magical storm.

Captain Hilyed sits at a crossroad of a decision pondering with the information he has gathered pertaining to the Drowned Man and his crew, Mrsha appears before the [Captain] to ascertain his importance to make a petition to the Inreza on the behalf of Calruz. She tells him that there has been new evidence discovered to prove his innocence willing to tell the tale to them, Hilyed decides to listen in time but after they evade the storm.