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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rish" data-source="post: 1855363" data-attributes="member: 14000">Kirran jumps ship earlier than the others, at the rowdy freeport at the mouth of the river, not really interested in heading back into Mittendein with winter coming on if he can avoid it. After a few days listening to the local gossip, something catches his ear about the relatively young Dwarvish port in Cryndon still looking for help with this and that, keeping down smugglers and the like, and he figures, why not? With some searching he manages to find a ship heading southward.As he's gathering his things to disembark, though, another traveller gets on and has a quiet conversation with the captain, and he catches the word "Suryanasta". This causes him to pause for a minute, and a little thought and a surreptitious coin flip decides him: it's bound to be warmer there, and he's never been there, and again, why not?The other traveler, as it turns out, is a monk of Aohalim, recalled from her journey by her order. Kirran figures he won't be much interested in whatever's  troubling an order as damnably law-abiding as hers, but he learns the local customs from her in any case, to avoid any trouble he's not gone looking for.He lives a strange, drifting life for his few months in the desert cities of Suryanasta, helping out an apothecary from time to time with his modest skill with potions but mostly just chasing rumors and making brief forays into the nearby wilderness looking for interesting things. After a while, when none of the rumors have borne fruit and the winter is fading in the north, he takes ship back up the coast to the major cities of Mittendein. Meier's letter misses him entirely, somehow, but Fleck's eventually reaches him when he drops in to one of the temples and it's passed to him by another cleric, who just shrugs when Kirran looks at the now-crumpled, smudged, and grubby bit of paper with some dubiousness. Then he just settles in to wait for the winter to give way to the beginnings of spring.</blockquote>

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