Things happened very fast--one second I was in
Tegamon's room, I had the scroll, opened Blind Lars'
door and was then rushing through the crowd to the
open deck. This wasn't like the city and I knew once
Tegamon realized his scroll was missing there would be
trouble. For all of us. I didn't want to get the whole
group in trouble and I needed a way to gain Tegamon's
trust. As I sprinted up the steps I came upon an idea.
I'd do the most unlikely thing -- I'd go to Tegamon and
tell him I found magic. If he thought that I had found
magic and didn't opt to hoard or hide it he might
trust me enough to return my book.
It didn't quite work out and soon I found myself in
the brig. I knew this ship was filled with Takers.
Untrusting Takers.
Not long after I found my way out of my cell. I slept
and studied during the day and roamed at night. I
needed to find food, because my captors decided I
wasn't fit enough to eat.
Leggatt explores the Lido
Eventually Miro came to me and we talked politics.
Helios is more complicated than I had imagined.
Gripped by a civil war (and what appears to be a
family squabble) Miro and Blind Lars seemed to be
spies for opposite sides. Not sure where to place
myself (despite my captivity I wasn't sure that Lars
and Co. was on the "wrong" side) I tried to give and
get some information from Miro.
I had information to give because during my trips out
I discovered my book and a message from HQ about the
ship being diverted. Something fishy was going on, no
pun intended, and I had hoped Miro would help me
figure it out, but he turned out to be as elusive as
before.
After I became imprisoned, I did try to make contact
with the men I had mentioned in the last entry. I
brought them information about the ship's change of
plans, but they didn't seem interested (in fact they
accused me of trickery later on the beach, but more on
that later). Angry Pipe was as silent as ever, and
Linear took the information without comment. Strange
fellows these.
Seika, though, won his fight, or seemed to, before the
ship was attacked by a giant squid. Perhaps the fact
that the message I had told Linear of was about
avoiding a squid attack that made these two elves on
guard against me. We survived the squid attack,
barely, and now find ourselves on the beach.
Miro wasn't done with us either. After I warned the
group that we had to attack Blind Lars, we discovered
that Blind Lars had cut Miro enough to kill him. We
dispatched Blind Lars, luckily, thanks to a few magics
of mine, and tried to help Miro. We were unsuccessful
and he passed to the place he believes in, but before
he left us he gave Linear a bracelet and a message.
Then, in perhaps the strangest move of my adventures
so far, Linear jumped up and warned that if I was up
to no good I'd meet his knife's edge. I had gotten on
so well with Linear before my imprisonment that this
took me completely by surprise. I had after all given
him information about the ship's movement (which I
understand is treason in some navies), sent a message
(futilely it turns out) that I was in the brig, and
helped save his life when Blind Lars threatened us.
In a way I'm glad the elf rejected me because I would
have begun to trust him, a fatal error in the city,
and I suspect the same holds true here in the wide far
country. We are alone in this world, and although I
believe we should protect each other from harm, as
much as we are able, courtesy and respect are never to
be expected.
