The party returns home after a harrowing battle with the dark mages.
Maebh desperately needs to recover. Aeowynn, not really liking spending time with the others tends, to Maebh's wounds.
The other girls stash the prisoner in the closet for the time being.
After discussing what to do with him, they haul him out and wake him up.
Immediately upon loosening his gag, he casts a shadow attack on himself, trying to kill himself.
Elesandra manages to dispel the magic and summons a small tree-like creature that channels the prisoners voice without allowing him to chant magic spells.
The girls question him but he returns very cunning responses and twists their words. He professes loyalty to someone, unknown. He tells them that the “all powerful” is coming soon.
While they are pondering over his words he manages to break the bonds of the rope and pushes a small metal symbol into Sharn. Sharn's bones begin to shatter but she manages to withstand the intense physical magic. It did not seem to be a spell that he chanted but the power flowed directly from the sigil. Sharn punches him in the face, breaking his jaw and knocking him out.
Sharn and Firia try to get a city guard to come back to their place. The guard doesn't want to leave his comfy post and refuses.
Next, the two girls try to bring the prisoner to the castle guard. They assume they are all drunk and tell Sharn to just toss him in the gutter.
Finally they bring him to the church. Father Gilbert takes the prisoner and tells them he will deal with the problem.
The next day they decide to investigate the crypt. It has been cleaned out, and the altar has been smashed to rubble.
Unfortunately, the girls were follow by a rather unsavory bunch of criminals.
After Elesandra burns two archers to a crisp, the leader takes off screaming.
The remaining brute and two archers wage battle against the girls.
Elesandra takes too many arrows and is overcome by the loss of blood.
The others manage to defeat the remaining interlopers and they hobble back, once again, to their home.
Aeowynn tends to their wounds.
They settle in to a month of work.
