Moving spheres

[Ebiris]

"Peace," Marie says gently. "You're in Wetwind Harbour, you're safe. But I need to know what happened to you out in the desert before you made it back here."

[Anastasia]

"The caravan...did anyone else make it? I remember fleeing back, but I thought someone may have gotten away." The old man asks. "Did they?"

[Ebiris]

"If they did they didn't arrive in town with you," Marie shakes her head. "What happened?"

[Anastasia]

A moment of sorrow, a soft shudder before, "We came on...something. A sand storm blew us off course and we found ruins," he begins. "Ruins like nothing we had ever seen before."

[Ebiris]

Could be gnomish, she well knows the desert's full of those. "How far out from Wetwind was it, do you know?"

[Anastasia]

"Three days," The man says, "It's not right there. The sun rises and falls in moments, or doesn't move in other places. Domingan went into a room a young man and came out elderly. Jaffar....Old Jaffar was torn open and reverted, then again and again and again."

[Ebiris]

It's a good thing she still has her bracers from the Magus of Time's maze! They're in Sylica of course but she can get them easily enough.

"Were there any other people there? Or monsters?" she asks.

[Anastasia]

"Sometimes," A soft shudder, "Strange things. Lions like mountains. Scorpions even bigger, that seemed to be there and here at once."

[Ebiris]

"But nothing that talked?" she presses. "What was it that gave you those wounds?"

[Anastasia]

"One of the beasts," The old man replies, "It was suddenly just there, and I was wounded all over."

[Ebiris]

She nods to that. "What about the ruins? How much of them were above ground? What did they look like?"

[Anastasia]

"An old city of stone above the sands, revealed by the storm," The old man says, "A rich city. I saw gold and treasure, we all saw it, it drew us in. Left and forgotten there. Such treasure!"

[Ebiris]

Honestly it's not really germane to her mission, as interesting as it sounds. "Three days by caravan on the road from here to Victoria... and how long were you in the sandstorm before you found it?"

She can pass it up the chain to Alicia and she'll decide what to do, after all.

[Anastasia]

"Hours and...there was the man of iron watching it all. A man that was not a man, made of iron. He was always watching, but we could never find him."

[Ebiris]

Could be like Seira's friend Yandrazrt!

That name kind of sounds similar to someone else she remembers Seira talking about once actually. Yezrut? She wonders if they're related.

"You're safe now. This is the temple of Kossuth. Don't tell anyone you saw me, though," she taps the side of her nose before teleporting back out into the desert, changing back into Honey Belle form, and then teleporting to her inn while invisible just in case anyone's in her room when she arrives. She prays to Alicia to update her on the situation.

And the situation being what it is, Alicia elects to ask Mystra about it, sending her avatar to Dweomerheart while Honey Belle gets back to performing and catching up on other rumours.