Knowledge shall lead the...

[Corwin]

Seira steps through!

[Anastasia]

Haze.

A haze like world.

A memory of days long gone.

A flickering, hazy realm. The old garrison's practice yard in Balmuria, the city little more than faded memories and the scent of the sea.

What was lost is found again.

The dream fades. You now stand in a hazy office, a room. The meeting room in Balmuria, Commander Oberuth's office. Both are little more than flickers of faint memories long gone.

What strange dreams he has. What nightmares plague this man. What impossible things he does every time he takes a step.

Your Inn. Home. Celebration, a victory over Esthan of the liches of the Dark - no. The haze is a drifting thing, a victory over Malmuth and it's insane Quee - no. Long ago memories.

What paths do you travel on now, Seira? Events move like an avalanche.

[Corwin]

As you expect, I'm right in the middle of them, Seira responds. I cannot say much, not yet. However, it is these events that meant I had to come here and ask for your blessing to head for the Womb of Arborea with Donald and Ranbar.

[Anastasia]

Both of them are silent. You see they both drowse on their feet, eyes closed.

What business do you have there, Seira? Few go there and fewer return.

[Corwin]

There is a being that I seek. One who sometimes takes the form of one of the leShay. You know the one I speak of, I have very good reason to believe.

[Anastasia]

It is not a being to seek trivially. Be cautious, Seira.

[Corwin]

It is the only way to a better future. That's all I can say on the matter. Can you guide our steps towards that being, please?

[Anastasia]

Yes.

Before you another doorway appears, opened ajar for you.

[Corwin]

Thank you, Seira says gratefully, stepping through the doorway.

[Anastasia]

This matters here, so gimme Perception right off.

[Corwin]

Okay, so our usual combat buffs are in places, then. Including Glorious Rally and Celestial Valor. I'm also hopeful Donald and Ranbar got a Mind Blank from someone, but it's their call.

Perception 10 for 114.

[Anastasia]

I presume so, yeah. I'll do spoiler blocks in a bit.

It is quiet.

At first you think there is no sound, no noise, not even the noise of life.

This lasts for a single heartbeat before you hear them. Voices by the dozens, the hundreds, the thousands, the millions - !

So many voices speak, a cacophony. The voices of babies, of the littlest children. All of them speak of lives, from the longest to the shortest, fondly telling stories to but one. She listens with vast patience and joy, her presence here like a warm blanket over everything. It is warm here, warm as a spring day with the flowers in bloom and the grass that perfect shade of green only memories can provide.

You stand on a beach of warm sand, the sun high in the sky as it caresses all the land. Far on the horizon you can glimpse an ocean, the faintest ribbon of blue in the distance.

[Corwin]

Seira looks at the one listening to all these stories!

Knowledge anything 10 for 120?

[Anastasia]

What exactly are you making a Knowledge check about?

[Corwin]

fondly telling stories to but one. She listens with vast patience and joy, her presence here like a warm blanket over everything.