Following her final departure from the Academy grounds and Edric's escape from prison, Chasmine had returned to the hidden headquarters of Gilram's crew to find it rather ... empty. Or so it felt. Gilram and Duncan she knew to still be out on mission, the former having sent her here to catch the others as they came and went, pass on orders as needed. Yet the air here felt stale and still. Almost as if it had been cleared out?
She'd waited several days. A week, perhaps, before deciding to set out in search of the others and learn what was going on. The first on her list would be Gaage Eberwhit as it had been some time since she'd spoken to him. Since before her mission to the academy at least, and she meant to reaffirm with him that he still intended to help her. Her visit to the Academy had proven fruitful in many ways and, indeed, she felt confident in a new direction to pursue returning to the living realm. Yet as she had found on her own, without the physical help of another much of what she needed to accomplish was quite impossible.
Now to track him down.
Ley tracking was a new skill of hers, picked up only in practice of finding her way to specific or familiar power markers. She'd innately done so to find her way to Gilram and had since practiced further at the Archon's whim to find others. Now it took her deep into the forest of a land Chas was yet unfamiliar with, following an old trail blazed by Gaage when moving with purpose and intensity. What it brought her to was nothing short of ... curious.
A lone cabin deep in the woods. A place she knew instinctively as she arrived from the Ley that her target was no longer there.
But someone else was. Someone ... vaguely familiar.
Was Gaage keeping a prisoner?
Chasmine manifested in the living realm before the door. While incapable of knocking, she'd been impressed with the notion of no longer simply shifting through walls into another's personal space. It was rude, but also it made it difficult for people to trust her. So continuing the habit of the living in her unlife had become routine.
"Hello?" she called, "I know you are inside. I mean you no harm. I am looking for Gaage, can you help me?"
She'd waited several days. A week, perhaps, before deciding to set out in search of the others and learn what was going on. The first on her list would be Gaage Eberwhit as it had been some time since she'd spoken to him. Since before her mission to the academy at least, and she meant to reaffirm with him that he still intended to help her. Her visit to the Academy had proven fruitful in many ways and, indeed, she felt confident in a new direction to pursue returning to the living realm. Yet as she had found on her own, without the physical help of another much of what she needed to accomplish was quite impossible.
Now to track him down.
Ley tracking was a new skill of hers, picked up only in practice of finding her way to specific or familiar power markers. She'd innately done so to find her way to Gilram and had since practiced further at the Archon's whim to find others. Now it took her deep into the forest of a land Chas was yet unfamiliar with, following an old trail blazed by Gaage when moving with purpose and intensity. What it brought her to was nothing short of ... curious.
A lone cabin deep in the woods. A place she knew instinctively as she arrived from the Ley that her target was no longer there.
But someone else was. Someone ... vaguely familiar.
Was Gaage keeping a prisoner?
Chasmine manifested in the living realm before the door. While incapable of knocking, she'd been impressed with the notion of no longer simply shifting through walls into another's personal space. It was rude, but also it made it difficult for people to trust her. So continuing the habit of the living in her unlife had become routine.
"Hello?" she called, "I know you are inside. I mean you no harm. I am looking for Gaage, can you help me?"