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[[Mrsha du Marquin|Mrsha]] wakes up for the day thinking on how [[Erin Solstice|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 du Marquin|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 Weishart|Nanette's]] awful outfit as the girl plans to go out shopping later. [[Kevin Hall|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 val Lischelle-Drakle|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 [[Pawn (Bishop)|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|[Witches]]] disregarding with others think of as proper, Lyonette notices the many stares with [[Ushar]] proposing that [[Ielane du Marquin|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 [[Calanfer|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 Soulbound|Elosaith]] the Tax Collector incident occurred. The villagers and [[Arrema]] cheer Lyonette on as she has everybody ready up for the confrontation with [[Liscor|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 Swifttail|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 Silversmith|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|[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|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|[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 Gemscale|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 Gemscale|Ilvriss]] if they can send a [[Magical Door|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 Silverfang|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 Cities|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 orbs|scrying orb]] which is showing [[Zevara Sunderscale|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 Ortega|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 [[Witches|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.