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head. - Do you
remember the little girl whittling sticks into swords and
practicing in the fields when she was supposed to be darning
socks? -
    Layna laughed and was rewarded with odd looks
from both Katya and Gryffon who had been contemplating her
question. A gust of wind blew up suddenly and whipped her hair into
her face. She brushed it off hurriedly and watched Gryffon’s
expression which seemed to be a mixture of confusion and something
bordering on fear. He didn’t seem entirely comfortable with her
talking to the Three in her head and she cleared her throat.
“Sorry, um, so is there?”
    “Yes,” he answered after a short pause, “I
was trying to remember exactly where the large library and museum
are, we have smaller ones in Endlyfta for training, but the Hall of
Histories that the scholars who have devoted their lives to history
is located somewhere else. Why do you ask?”
    “They think that maybe someone there or some
reference there might give us a clue as to where the sword came
from or know more about it. We’re also going to have to figure out
how to get to Nuko’s prison. It’s somewhere past the Ferryn Plains
surrounded by chaotic magic and other perils. Just think of all the
stories we’ve heard about the things coming from in from Plains
into the North Woods. And that’s on the very edge of the cleansed
world. Nuko will be in the heart of chaos.”
    “I think our most pressing matter at the
moment has to be going back to Endlyfta and informing them about
the army and the bracers that Katya told us about.” Gryffon stated.
Layna had been filled in on the situation, and was torn - as were
her three guests. It did seem imperative to get this information to
the authorities and also important to stay and help should the
fighting come sooner than expected as Katya’s information
suggested, but was it better to spend time and energy fighting the
war or would that time be better spent looking at the bigger
picture and ridding the world of an evil that had already once
caused great bloodshed and was no doubt instrumental in starting
the war in the first place.
    Katya rolled her eyes and sighed, “They’ll
figure it out themselves soon enough won’t they?”
    Gryffon seemed to be struggling to control
his response so Layna cut in, “I agree with Gryffon,” she said and
he sent her a grateful look. “They need to know what they have to
be prepared for or else they’ll be slaughtered. What’s the good in
saving the world if half of it has been killed off? Plus, let’s not
forget that we still need to find the Bloodstone too, and since
Aileen said it was in Treymayne until recently and she suspects it
may now be in Gelendan, it would be prudent to have a presence
here.” She suddenly got an idea, it was one of those thoughts that
she couldn’t tell if it had come from herself, if it was a
suggestion from one of the Three, or if it was one of their
thoughts rubbing off on her. Sometimes that happened, that she
would feel a bit of their emotions or thoughts even when they
weren’t ‘with’ her. The problem they were dealing with had them all
a bit distracted, and not a little unhappy. This thought, however,
could potentially be very useful. “I think,” she started slowly,
piecing it together, “that we might be able to come up with a
compromise, but it does require splitting up.”
    “Is that a smart idea?” asked Gryffon.
    “Split up and do what?” asked Katya.
    Layna took a deep breath. “Well, we know that
there’s a way to travel by magic over long distances, right? We
heard that that’s how Jezebel got transported here. So maybe we
could use that to get to Nuko quickly.”
    Katya interrupted her, “Sure, but I don’t
think it would be a good idea to transport directly into a mass of
chaotic magic, and there’s the tiny problem of having no idea where
he is to transport to.”
    “That’s where the splitting up part comes in.
What if one of us, or two of us even, travel by