Location: Woode, Sinis

Elijah has been thinking. Yes, Princess Azandra's death is good, but could he make it even better? He calls Erinn - his most, and only trusted advisor - into his room, and recalls what details he can of her surroundings when she died. This is enough for Erinn to know to put a guard around that exact place, to prevent any death there during the week... but he won't. Not unless Elijah asks.

Instead, he tells him, "That is Deep," and the exact place, as far as he can get it. It's easily recognizable for an experienced traveler such as Erinn, as one of the nearby buildings can't be mistaken for anything but the Lux Cantatio. An interesting tidbit of fact that both of them tuck away. Elijah has a good idea, from the earlier visions, who must have killed her.

Elijah considers his options now. Erinn could easily be sent to watch the road between Pax and Deep, and if so, should probably be sent immediately, to get there as soon as possible. A ship would likely be faster than going overland. Once there, though... well, Azandra is recognizable. The hardest thing will be to find her before she finds him and... what? Well, Elijah thinks, Yggdrasil will kill her as is. Does he want that? ...Or does he want the victory to go to Krolaken? ...Or... Yggdrasil will kill her regardless, no? What Krolaken wants is to regain Pax and Akra. So that's where he should go.

Yes. Elijah himself should go.

The trick is timing it right. It could be almost an entire week before she leaves her castle, or she could already have gone. The place of the sun in his vision doesn't say much. No... yes. Yes. The best strategy would be to wait in Deep until she's confirmably dead, and then move for Pax immediately. He'll be competing against Yggdrasil's spread-out network, two men against an army, but then, they want peace don't they? And this is how to get peace! He laughs out loud, startling Erinn only a bit. "Pack your bags," he orders, thinking that he must seem a little bit insane to him. And after millennia of this... honestly, who wouldn't be? "We're going to Deep." He'll explain the details later, after he's chartered a ship. "And pack mine too."

The last, Erinn thinks quietly, is something he's never asked before.

This won't be easy, thinks Rasya as they approach the Citadel. At least they might be able to tell what Elijah's seen by what he asks about outside events, right?

Not right, they discover. Elijah left yesterday. For Deep, they learn. Damn it all.

At least they can tell Savic this when they return. But it makes for a rather frustrated and bored Rasya. Ah well. Odd jobs will help take out some of that frustration.

Suddenly, somewhere from the left side of the road, a web shoots out over the road. It hits a tree on the right side of the road, and sticks to it. There's suddenly a large spider's web reaching across the road in front of Rasya.

Three Mythou climb out of the woods on the road, and approach the place where Rasya crashed. "God 'em good Piet!" A bald one congratulates and pats one of their comrades to the back. They seem to have a red Paxian dragon tattoo on their head, the long body going around their neck twice. They also carry some sort of a spray bottle. The one called Piet grins, revealing his sharp teeth. His eyes are covered with 4-lens shades. The third one is silent, wearing a black helmet and a leather mask. Orange bull horns hone out from two holes in the helmet. Their are tall and menacing.

Additionally, there's a laughing shriek somewhere in the trees above Rasya.

Piet laughs. "Look at this guys face!" His amused smile turns to scornful. "Yeah, whatcha thinking 'bout that, smart guy? We gotcha." He nods at the motorcycle, eyeing it greedily. "Nice bike."

"Oh yeah," Piet grins. "You're a bike summoner, arencha?" His face turns serious. "Yeah funny, man, but you're talkin' wayyy too much. Now drop 'em daggers or Akish will breakcha." The horned Mythou crosses their arms, eyes staring at Rasya from behind the black lenses of his mask.

Piet laughs at Rasya's coughing fit and so do the rest of them, besides Akish. "Finish 'em Aki, you got this!" The Dragon-tattooed one says. The horned Mythou moves, striding quickly toward Rasya.

"Shut up!" Dragon-tattooed Mythou says. Akish approaches Rasya.

(6)

The winged Mythou in the tree shrieks in pain as Idrel's spear impales their wing. They fall from the tree, and the three others look up as their friend falls downward.

(2) Akish is distracted by the falling Mythou, and is slow to react to Rasya's attack. They manage to step back just before Rasya reaches them, but it won't prevent being hit. The toughest clothing they're wearing is a leather jacket, so the knife should do some damage wherever Rasya hits.

(2) The falling Mythou tries to slow their fall by spreading their wings and gliding, but the injury is stopping them. Piet aims his hands at the winged Mythou, (4) managing to shoot a bit of web at them. They stick onto a tree midway through their fall.