An Angry Bull Is Less Dangerous Than An Angry Woman

So uh.. yeah. I guess that was about when I went to go talk to Kai. It was.. awkward. And bad. She got married to some fella named Kazan and.. y’know what, it don’t even matter. It hurt a lot at the time but I dunno if it ever really mattered to me. I think that was the first time I saw just how many years I wasted. Thinkin’ about her, not lettin’ go. They had a daughter. A little lady named Pearl. Cutest damn thing I ever saw, at least until we met.. I’m gettin’ ahead of myself.

Kai helped out a lot really. She didn’t know much about our curse. At least nothin’ I didn’t already know. She did have some insight into my vision, though. She told us more about Prefectus Shiro. About his band of guards called Spelleaters. Now, I dunno the inner workings of this stuff, but they could, somehow, pluck a spell outta thin air as soon as another mage casted it. Then steal that castin’ for themselves. She seemed freaked out by it. It seemed.. unnatural. I didn’t like the sound of it. She also told me that Jungle Jim was in town, being held prisoner by Shiro. I knew Jim could hold his own, but that put a lotta worry into my heart. Apparently he knew somethin’ about somethin’ else, or at least they thought he did. With him it’s a real crapshoot.

Anyhow, while I was busy with that, the boys was busy doin’ other things. Vebradu and Sledge stole some book of true names called, Key of Ansgar from the library. That and a star chart. I asked them to look into shipwrecks, but they couldn’t find nothin’. I guess there’s a lotta shipwrecks that happen up there, they wasn’t able to narrow it down. Vidar did some pokin’ around tryin’ to find out more about his ancestor with the axe. Found a dwarven merchant who told him some tales about her adventures in the western mountains. Said it was weird she died in the Fissure Fields, though. Larry did some snoopin’ on the Dumein manor and found where they kept the wagon. We hoped to have a chance to swipe it before we met the man himself, but we weren’t so lucky.