Interlude – Songs and Wands

Interlude — Songs and Wands
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Interlude — Songs and Wands is the 54th chapter of Volume 10.

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Lyonette begins her day with practicing her singing in one of the Gardens with Colfa.
Teriarch and the rest in his cave recover from the attack by the Moon Halfling with him and Magnolia try to find where the line is for telling the truth to others.
Lyonette returns to The Wandering Inn after her singing to find a number of people looking for employment at the inn. One of them uses her skill to force everyone within an area to sing in verse and rhythm.
Three immortal beings; Visophecin, Rhisveri, and Taletevirion enter the inn to negotiate for the Ironwood Wand in Lyonette's custody.
Havoc ensues with Lyonette laying down the law by pulling out her secret weapon of the late Khorpe's Crossbow with the Tier 6 Pheonixflame Bolt loaded in it.
Lyonette pleads with Root Mrsha to please let her carry her burdens with the Gnoll child refusing pointing to the current issue at hand. Lyonette begins to hear out what the three immortals have to say.
The three speak of the last Dryad Fithea that survive The Day Kaaz's Honor Died ruminating on the fall of the last of the last.
Lyonette shares her reasoning for why she hasn't done anything with the wand, Nanette believes that her being Witch gives her the right moral to grandstand the issue with Taletevirion telling her what it really means for a Witch to meddle in events and what bringing this seed to life means for it.
A recess is called for everyone to take a drink with Lyonette speaking with Rhisveri to clear up the air and be on the same page. Lyonette gathers a group to go meet the Lords and Ladies of the Woods.
Root Mrsha stays behind informing one of the Calanferian staff of a double agent and waits to do the only thing that ever mattered.

Lyonette meets with Laken as the two sign a mutual defense pact with one another which very much interrupting the [Emperor]'s day, returning back to The Wandering Inn she greets Colfa with the both of them entering the [Garden of Sanctuary] for their daily ritual of practice their singing in privacy. Meanwhile Rafaema and the rest in Teriarch's cave recover from their beating by the Moon Halfling with Taletevirion going around checking up on everybody, the Unicorn walks up to Teriarch and Magnolia trying to figure out the boundaries of sharing the truth to others. Teriarch bribes the Unicorn with one of his ancient wines from his hoard as he leaves and goes back to telling stories of the past. Magnolia is able to coax the story of his daughter Nirayicel out of the Brass Dragon, Taletevirion goes out to have a drink at a proper place.

Rhisveri speaks with Sophridel of his plan to seduce Lyonette for the wand and more gold even if his last venture to The Wandering Inn was a complete failure with him gambling away a substantive sum of Ailendamus's treasury. The Wyrm teleports away in a huff after the Elemental of Masks brings up the fact that Rhisveri is lacking in the realm of romance and intercourse.

Lyonette returns back to the inn from her singing to finding dozens of people applying for a job at the inn with the notable out of the bunch being Calla, a level 42 [Singing Instructor], and Ebente, a level 32 [Caretaker]. To show there worth, Ebente begins to wards the sealed weapons all over the inn from the children and Calla enforces everyone within a certain radius to sing in verse and rhythm, overjoyed and slightly embarrassed Lyonette goes around to make everyone attempt to sing. Asgra welcomes in a handsome man with the rest of the inn staff readying themselves for anything, Visophecin sits down and orders food with him searching for something. Dalimont wonders when he'll go back to serving Seraphel and takes note of Visophecin's entrance, he was about to get the inn staff in order when two more disastrous guests appear. Seeing Rhisveri and Taletevirion stride into the inn, Dalimont calls forth the occurrence of a Solstice Event to the staff calling the ones without a job to the Garden.

The two Ailendamus immortals catch sight of each other and question what the other is doing at the inn with the Lucifen dumbfounded with the Wyrm's plan of action, meanwhile Nanette attempts to steal the wand and uses her skeleton key to unlock Lyonette's room only to find it already unlocked. She sees Taletevirion rummaging around Lyonette's drawers with the rest of the room being destroyed, the children explain their cause for the wand sent to them by the People of the Vale Forest to which Taletevirion expresses that that would be a poor idea and leaves the room.

Lyonette feels that something is terribly wrong with her daughter and walks towards Root Mrsha, as the three immortals chase for Lyonette's attention they hit the barrier of the song skill and witness Ebente bodychecks Lyonette aside crying out that the Gnoll child has been abused. Holding Mrsha in her arms, Ebente runs towards the portal door with Liska and the Thronebearers trying to stop her with Rhisveri paralyzing her and the summoned Watch. With that situation solved the three immortals approach the [Princess] but Calla shares that her skill will stay in place until everything calms down, unperturbed the three stride past the Drake and with perfect pitch and syncopation they sing to Lyonette to implore her to leave the matter of the wand to them. Tired from the events of today, Lyonette lays down the law by threatening the three with Khorpe's Pheonixflame Crossbow bolt and has the three of them leave the inn to knock and ask politely once she's ready.

With the atmosphere cooling down, [Infiltrator] Deiss returns back to Pallass to report back the minor inn event and request of Salazsar's intelligence services for information on the late Khorpe's possessions. At Salazar, Eschowar and a number of other Drakes converse with the Gnoll [Caretaker] of what was in Khorpe's possession when he was returned after the events of the Solstice with the crossbow with the Tier-6 bolt being missing and questions how a civilian is handling a military-grade artifact. Deiss reads the report that was sent back in shock of what the [Princess] has in her hands.

Ushar pleads with her Princess to give her the bag of holding with the crossbow in it with Lyonette shut down any further questioning on the matter, she begins to ask her daughter what's going on with Mrsha telling her mother to trust her on this matter. As her mother, Lyonette tries to bear the burden, but Mrsha won't allow that to happen and accepts that the issue with the wand has to be dealt with now rather than later. Ushar promises to figure out what ails their charge while Lyonette going to meet with the three guests hearing what they have to say.

Visophecin, even with the knowledge he's gathered, can only guestimate what just transpired, speaking with Rhisveri they talk about the third immortal wondering what kind of being they are. With the [Princess] accepting their apology she organizes a meeting at the [World's Eye Theatre], Dalimont and Nanette guide and introduce themselves to the two nobles of Ailendamus towards the theatre where they meet with Taletevirion. Rhisveri shares that he knew that last survivor of The Day Kaaz's Honor Died with the Unicorn not believing the words coming out of the Duke's mouth, sharing more of the last Dryad, Taletevirion accepts that Rhisveri's words as truth. Learning of the fate of the last Dryad, the two perform an old gesture with the Unicorn sharing his intent of being the arbiter of what happens to the Dryad seed. The rest of the guests to this meeting arrive at the inn with Lyonette beginning to hear their case.

Lyonette states that she would've sent the wand to Ryoka to let her deal with it but that her location beforehand and now are troublesome areas to send things to and that she's unsure what the reaction from people that contacted Hethon would be. Taletevirion shares that those people of the Vale Forest are dead made from a skill when the Veltras Family first came to the continent and are a stubborn bunch of dead driftwood. Lyonette exclaims that while she is sympathetic to the cause, that they would task the children to bear the burden and dangers of planting the seed which she has been trying so hard to keep everyone safe since the Solstice. Rhisveri's attempts to reason fail with Nanette bringing up that they own it to the last member of the species because it is something right to do in and of itself. Taletevirion jumps in to express that Nanette's stance taking as a Witch is misguided and shares what it truly means for a witch to meddle with events. That it would be a cruel thing to bring a child alone into this brutal world where her people have long been dead and burned, he points to the other immortals in the room that they might know what it feels to be on the verge of extinction and are beyond trying to change that. He shares what the true Great Forests of old where like, the difficulties the countless many tried to regrow what was lost, it is because they are the last of the last is the reason they care. Taletevirion begins to sing a ballad of last of the last, Sammial out of everyone in the inn begins to applaud the singing and then cry not knowing what else to do, the Unicorn bow towards Sammial like a performer to their audience with Lyonette calling for a recess.

Embarrassed and ashamed, Lyonette looks for the two from Ailendamus while speaking with Mrsha about if she made her decision yet, she strides past Mrsha but sense something off from her daughter's words. Rhisveri and Visophecin have a drink at the bar after the dower mood speaking on what the Lucifen lost out at sea and Ryoka's tale of there being more Wyrms out there, Lyonette tells them that they can become permanent fixtures of the inn if they'd like only if they treat her as an equal. Rhisveri brings up the time he met Marquin and compares everyone in House Marquin to her standard, after sprinkling of bit of her drink on the Duke to get his attention, Lyonette says to look at her and not her name. Being on the same page, Lyonette gathers everyone to establish who is going on the trip to meet the lords and ladies of the Vale Forest, grabbing the wand they set forth to another Solstice Event.

Ushar keeps on eye on Mrsha to find out what the girl is endangering herself with, she receives a report about currently marked spies impressed by the agents Queen Ielane has sent. Mrsha gives a missive to a mousy-haired girl about a double agent in their midst and goes on the sit next to Sammial telling him that she's doing the only thing that ever mattered and waits.