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Uneasy meet up

Session 87
2023-03-02

As the girls enter the dorm, Ertherin waits almost in the furthest away corner. He looks anxious, tense and alert, ready to leap into action. Irdien walks over to stand beside her brother to offer him support and comfort. Sirona and L approach cautiously and stop about halfway not to impose any unnecessary stress. The fact that L looks ready to leap into action to defend Sirona isn't the most reassuring display.
Sirona and Ertherin start to have a delicate conversation where Sirona does most of the talking, to begin with. Sirona says that she can only explain how she could allow what happened to occur but understands that a reason is not an excuse and that she must own up to her actions and hope it somehow brings Ertherin closure. She tells him about being abducted as a nine-year-old and held at the mansion for 14 years, being exposed daily to the poisoned words of the cult. She apologies for not being strong or brave enough to stop it. Ertherin is impressed by her resolve to shrug off the brainwashing abuse and tells her how he escaped the mansion after breaking free from the restraints, which Irdien told him Sirona had partly cut. He asks if Sirona remembers the number of victims she's been entangled with, and Sirona answers 33. Then he asks what she means to do now, and Sirona replies that she's a coward who only found the strength to act once her own family got involved in this danger and that she will hopefully teleport to end all of this tomorrow.
Ertherin pulls out his daggers and displays an impressive flourish. Labrat immediately spreads her wings wide and sidesteps in front of Sirona, holding her shield, but Ertherin does not attack. Instead, he declares that he wants to join the fight. Irdien reminds him that he almost died just a couple of hours ago and is in no condition to fight yet. Her brother agrees and asks his sister to make sure she stabs the monster 33 times in his stead as revenge.
Sirona and L leave the dorm, but the siblings remain to continue their conversation. However, the tension is drastically lessened once the two groups are separated, and the brother and sister start comparing monster-killing skills. Ertherin claims he's more experienced after his time on Ghiz, at which point Irdien mentions that she has once slain a dragon.
Morbant and Zander, whom Adrain has joined in the mess hall, have all but finished their food when Ertherin later reenters, pointing directly at Mobrant's hairless head and screaming that he saved his hide before and that the older, bald man now owes him a drink. Delighted, Morbrant waves him over, and the company partake in a bottle of wine. Zander and Ertherin seem to recognise each other as kindred spirits of mischievous tricksters and quickly uncover a state of friendship.