Diplomatic Immunity--Preface: Vasha's Discovery

[Bront]

"Do you think we could bluff her and get your divice back? I wonder if I have a jewel that will work..."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I think the detector can pinpoint the jewel at very close distances, so that bluff is oomed to failure, I'm afraid," Bertram replies a bit sadly, "It was a very good idea though--you're a smart girl, Vasha."

 

[Bront]

"Then perhaps we had best hide here. Poor Puddles though, stuck outside," She frowns.

Vasha couldn't help shake the feeling that she had missed something. Her father had brought her mother here for a reason, and learned to love her. Perhaps there was more to why he chose to bring her here than she understood. Perhaps she was the Jewel, and simply did not understand her connection to the planet as a nymph.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Hmm...I guess so, but we can't hide forever...I do have another idea, but it's kind of risky...What if I pretend to be you while you run away? Then she'll notice that she doesn't detect the jewel anymore, and she'll think that happened even while you were there, since I'll be there, so maybe she'll stop hunting you. Regardless, I'll be okay because I don't have it, and I don't know where it is, so I'll just be cooperative. What do you think?"

 

[Bront]

"Are you sure? I don't want to loose you to Brother. Would we meet up again or just go our seperate ways?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Well...I guess we would have to split up for now, but have no fear. I will find you again someday and invite you to my wedding, little sister..."

 

[Bront]

She gives Bertram a big hug "You'd better" she giggles. "I'll try to find a library somewhere else,for it's best I leave Arris for a bit I think."

She gives him a tender, sisterly kiss. "Take care Brother." She smiles reluctantly.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Don't worry, Sister, I always do."

*He swirls his hands in arcane gestures and says some mystic words, which Vasha recognises as an invisibility spell, and then gives her a kiss on her nose, at which point her reflection vanishes in the mirror. Then he makes a simple gesture that she doesn't recognise and changes his form to match hers, giving her a hug while she's invisible.*

"Be safe, Sister."

 

[Bront]

"I will."

With Bertram's help, she manages to climb down the rope fairly quickly without hurting herself, grabs puddles and whispers for him to follow her, and begins to treck to the nearest Spelljamming port.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*She travels through the night and into the next day, when she hears a hiss, and sees a near-starved sand monitor clambering towards her, its reptilian eyes gazing on Vasha as a last-resort meal, as its six-foot-long tail twitches back and forth.*