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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5632021" data-attributes="member: 2710">Oddly enough, it is Finia and not the captain who responds to Daylily's insult. Any sign of exhaustion disappears from the attendant as the barbarian slings his insults, and her face becomes positively crimson. She lets loose with a string of elven expletives that surprise even the rough-edged Daylily, stomping forward as if to tear him apart with her bare hands. Commander Parsons stops her with a touch on the arm. She whirls at him, still fuming.[sblock=elven] "No foul-breathed, boiled-blood, Border-Realms-forsaken savage is going to impugn your honor!""Seems to me there's some blood boiling in a Border Realms native,"[/sblock]Parsons gives Finia a wry smile as they exchange words, and appears to disarm her hostility. Her gaze softens, and the pair's voices drop.[sblock=elven]"I'm sorry, Galen. I just...""No apologies. Seems to me that fire's exactly the sort of thing that drew us together, no?"[/sblock]The commander's hand rises to gently cup Finia's cheek. She smiles coyly and opens her mouth to say more, but then seems to remember she and the commander are not alone. The elven attendant blushes, then gives Daylilly only one more tense rejoinder before retreating back to her employer.[sblock=elven]"You are no longer in your brutal home, Master Falshenaya. I would counsel you to learn the ways of civility if you plan on staying among civilization."[/sblock][gm]sorry 'bout that, jbear.[/gm]Relic's words bring Gabbiano out of his reverie. He looks up from the wand with a start, and now he, like his attendant before him, blushes. He quickly stows the wand within his coat, buttoning the coat securely. He clears his throat loudly, then smiles widely, if nervously."You have certainly done my house an admirable service," he says with a slight bow of his head. As Relic makes it clear he isn't interested in trying to lay claim to the wand, Gabbiano seems to relax slightly. He gestures to the small house, offering it to the party to search and pillage as they see fit.As Relic trots about the grounds collecting collars from the slaughtered wolfhounds, Quioan takes the lead in the house, carefully pushing open the painted purple door to the small house and stepping inside. After a tense few moments as he braces for another animal attack, it becomes apparent none are coming. The elf slings his bow back onto his back and searches in earnest. However profitable Caan seemed to claim his scam was, the interior of his house doesn't seem to bear that out. There are crude, hand-made furnishings and no appreciable decoration. In a small desk, however, Quioan does find a stack of papers. Duplicate deeds, each made out and apparently bearing official seals. All describing the house Quioan stands in. The papers are held down by a large ring of keys, all apparently identical to each other. Quioan reaches into is backpack and produces the keys Ryall and Roug gave into his safe-keeping, and confirms that they, too, match the collection of keys in the house.Having found nothing of more of mundane value, Quioan invokes his arcane sight. He's astonished to see the room bathed in a magical glow, and starts to wonder at what magic an entire house might contain when he realizes the house isn't the source of the aura. Rather, the room is bathed in the cast-off of an aura streaming in the windows from outside. As the elven archer moves to look outdoors, his arcane senses are nearly overwhelmed. The wand in Gabbiano's coat burns with an aura of white-hot intensity, its brilliance covering half of the clearing. He's forced to turn away from the sight before he can be sure of its school, but a magic item this powerful might account for an aura lingering as long as the one he found on Roug's land.As Quioan searches, Caan begins to stir. He wakes with a start, but his instant aggression turns to apprehension as he finds himself flanked by Parsons' men as well as the party members not inside the house.</blockquote>

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