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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mewness" data-source="post: 5629234" data-attributes="member: 14889">Gelik comes cautiously to sit down near Hú Lí. “A touch overdramatic for someone who’s already dead, isn't he?” (He’s referring to Ishirou, of course.) “But the situation really could be that bad. I’m certainly no expert, but--wizards talk. In fact they are quite possibly the very worst gossips in existence--but I digress. Forty or fifty years ago, a ship called the Nightvoice was lost in these waters. There was a wizard on board, supposedly rather capable. But his communications gradually became weaker and then stopped, and he was never heard from again. Not as though he was cut off in mid-sentence, you understand, but as though something was slowly weakening the magic he used to communicate.” Gelik considers the spider meat for some moments before taking a reluctant bite. “Or so I’ve heard. I didn’t know him. But it would be something to find the Nightvoice. There is a mystery there.”[sblock=Insight 19 (active or passive)]You suspect that Gelik is understating his connection to the Nightvoice--it seems more important to him than he lets on.[/sblock]Jade spends ten or fifteen minutes in prayer before joining the group for dinner. Castile recognizes some of the prayers--she has heard members of her family invoke the blessings of the god Quetzalcoatl on occasion. When he has finished, he sits down beside Castile to eat. “I ask Quetzalcoatl for guidance, to show us a way to leave. And yet for me it is perhaps not de best t’ing if he hears,” he says, smiling. “If I return home, King Itztecolotl will have me kill. I live in Daunton for years. It is strange at first, but I come to like very much.... Yet I do not want to hide for the remainder of my life.” He pauses ruminatively. “Now I wonder about somet’ing,” he continues. “When I am on de Isle of Opposition, and I search for information about de King’s tribute, I learn dat de one whom I suspect has an associate who is a ship’s captain--Kinkarian is his name. His ship is call de Brine Demon. I don’t know exactly what Kinkarian does for de t’ief, but dey have a close connection--perhaps he helps him steal or buys de goods. When I flee and live in Daunton, I watch all the time for de Brine Demon, because I know from de records dat it comes to Daunton regularly. If I find Kinkarian, maybe I can prove de guilty one’s guilt. But dis ship never comes. It is very strange. Now I wonder--maybe de Brine Demon is catch in de waters of Smuggler’s Shiv and is wreck, like us. Am I foolish to imagine such a t’ing?”</blockquote>

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