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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 4123457" data-attributes="member: 4441">"There is always hope little one.  Now, mind what I said about your disguise.  You'd be better off saving the full 'persona' you portrayed for the truly ignorant... or those easily awed.  What you are might lend itself well enough, with a convincing story, to being an agent.  I'm sure you have other disguises too.  The time elementals I'm familiar with would not bestir themselves from their seats of power when they could have someone else do it for them," he says in the way of parting advice.  Then he'll smile at the neriad and let her find her own way out.  The void genasi shopgirl below watches her with the vaguest hint of being impressed, but otherwise ignores her departure.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  The pale man concentrates, closing his eyes for a long moment.  Then he opens them again, and they show a pale blue, a startling contrast to the blank and dead white they displayed before.  "I will sent on of my spirits of the air to you, be watching," he says in a voice that echoes with wind and rumbling stones.  Another blink, and the man's eyes go back to their blank whiteness.  "Did you get the answer you require?" he asks, with an odd tilt to his head.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  As Trebuchet takes the shard and bottle down, the scene around him fades back to Sho'brakka's odd hut.  At the question, Sho'brakka twirls a gloved finger around his moustache and seems to consider with some gravity.  But Lupaz has the impression that The Dreammind has had a price in mind since they walked in the door, or perhaps even before then.Reaching down, Sho'brakka draws two pictures, one of a dog's head, and one of Trebuchet's skull-like visage.  Above them, in thought bubbles, he draws vague images, the kind of oddly disconnected things that might occur in dreams.  Then he draws a circle around them, and makes a gathering gesture toward himself, as if taking something in possession.  Then he draws fourteen moons and fourteen suns.A fortnight of dreams.  For the use of the bottle and shard, Sho'brakka the Dreammind requires in payment a fortnight of your dreams, night dreams or day dreams or nightmares, he wants them all.</blockquote>

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