Director's note
staring a hole through Zalise like she does Not approve of her
Anessa rises despite her wound and faces the five disarmed assassins. Her broadsword moves with cold finality, and the order’s killers collapse in silence before the refugees.
Anessa
You cannot keep people like this alive. They would endanger everyone here, so I will not leave them breathing behind us.
Anessa
I am going with Myk to the Ashen Chapel. Zalise, you and the refugees can remain here until we finish this.
Zalise Zephyr-Ashe
No. I am coming. You do not take Myk into the order’s hands while I wait behind a wall and hope your promises hold.
Myk
We go together. Anessa, stop playing with my hair and explain what is happening between you and Zalise.
Anessa
Oh, little brother, you still cannot read a room. She is staring holes through me, I am deciding whether to kill her, and you are worried about your hair.
Myk’s silent warning fixes every hunter and every empty blade in place: harm Nadira, and he and his allies will make war. Anessa’s teasing hand trembles once in his hair, vulnerability briefly breaking through her certainty. Kae remains with the refugees as Myk, Anessa, and Zalise depart toward the Ashen Chapel, the marked tablet guiding them east beneath falling ash.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach the Ashen Chapel
“I follow the marked tablet east toward the Ashen Chapel with Anessa and Zalise. I ask Anessa why she is poking fun at Zalise”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +1)