The market noise gutters out as Elowen shimmers into view by the fountain, her body flickering like mist in sunlight. Violet static answers from the hidden blade at Yllamaris's side. Bram staggers back, hand snapping to his sword.
Elowen
Yllamaris, do not draw it here. The tether hears us when her power flares.
A lanky peddler with a tray of wilted flowers freezes beside the fountain. He blinks at Elowen, then at Yllamaris, and edges back without meeting anyone's eyes.
Perrin
Saints preserve us... I only sell petals, I want no part of hauntings or guards.
Yllamaris
She is not casting through the crowd. She is looking only at him.
Elowen
The mark on your blade is pulling something awake. If you keep it near the square, this place will crack.
Bram shifts between Yllamaris and the apparition, wary but not lunging. Around them, shoppers hold still, pretending not to hear.
+ Scene Quest Added
Get the blade away from the market square
+ Story Quest Added
Find a safe place to speak with Elowen
“*in my mind - 'Why is Elowen here... I teleported her away... How did she find me? This isn't good.' I ask the shadows to help me turn invisible as I turn to run away”
SUCCESS (Great Arcana, rolled +1)
Yllamaris slips backward into the shadow of a hanging awning, and the light seems to lose him at once. The air around his cloak thins, blurring his outline into a wavering absence.
Yllamaris
The shadows answer. He is hidden.
He turns and moves fast, silent as a thrown coin skimming stone, away from the fountain and the eyes fixed on it. The hidden blade at his side gives one last faint pulse, then goes still.
Elowen
Yllamaris. Wait.
Her voice follows him, but her gaze snaps past the empty space where he was standing. Bram whirls, sword half-drawn, scanning the plaza with a man trying to guard a ghost.
Bram
Where did he go?
Perrin recoils behind his flowers as the crowd stirs in confused ripples. Yllamaris reaches the shade between two stalls, vanishing from the fountain's bright circle with the square still behind him.
“Is there an exit from the city? Let's leave”
SUCCESS (Good Agility, rolled -2)