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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 442671" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chinese Take-outChapter 15, "The Unanticipated Visitor", September 17, 1018, 4:00 A.M.“Cassie, Cassie”   Upon hearing her voice, Cassie-Andra awakens.  She finds herself no longer in a bed at the Common House Inn at Shosun, but instead, is now back on the unique section of the Astral Plane that she visited before with Hendry Junior.   In this part of the plane each person's astral image appears unclothed and of a hue that reflects their alignment at all times.  This also makes it impossible to tell a lie here, as their aura would change color if they did.  Speaking to her now is Hendry's twin brother Rainville, a muscular and handsome nineteen year old fighter, with hair flowing down to his waist.    She immediately notices that his aura is not longer silver as it was before, which indicated neutral alignment.   It is now a silvery/gold color, closer to her own aura, which is gold indicating good alignment.  She also senses that her link to this plane is much weaker than when she traveled here before with his brother Hendry (and once before with both of them).  “It is good to see you again.  Why are you in Shosun?” he asks.  She answers “We are after Morgarth.”  She sees a look of disappointment cross his face.  “How did I get here?” she asks.  He answers “I am also in Shosun.  I accessed the Astral Plane, to get a message to my father who is currently over a hundred miles away.  In returning to my physical body I was pleasantly surprised to find your Astral imprint from when you visited this plane before.”  “Where in Shosun are you?” she asks.  He answers “In the same place of lodging as you, two floors above and about seventy feet down the hallway.” “Why are you here?”  she asks.  “It’s a long story,” he answers.  “We seem to have the time,” is her response.   “Not really,” he answers, “I am in trouble, and desperately need your help.”   “What sort of trouble?  Are you still working for Morgarth?”  “No,” he answers, “We left him two days after we left your Island, and have been working on a different mission since then.”  “What kind of mission?   Cassie asks. He answers “Well, to begin with, you need to know that the land surrounding Morgarth’s castle is filled with humanoid-animal creatures.”  “Yes, the Hengeyokai, we know all about them,” she says.  He is surprised by this, then says “Oh, well many of these innocent creatures were captured by slavers during the week that the anti-magic shell was down.  Father decided that it was our mission to find and rescue these captured slaves and return them to their home.”   “That explains it,” she says “We were questioned about an incident three days ago, where several policemen were killed.”  “That was not our intent,” says Rainville, " We were just trying to rescue the slave.” He continues “Unfortunately tonight’s attempted rescue went even worse, as they had set a trap for us.   Father, and our cleric, were barely able to escape, and they had to leave me behind.   I was barely able to get away.  I returned here and sneaked into an unoccupied room that we had stayed in when we were in this city last week.   Once safely in this room I traveled to the Astral Plane to let father know where I was, but he said he will not be able to return to get me until tomorrow night.   I am very fortunate to have found you, as my body is now physically exhausted, and I fear it will be found before I actually awaken on my own.  The city guards followed me to this part of the city, and are currently searching the streets and alleys for me.  It is only a matter of time before they begin searching the buildings.   I need to you to come and wake me as soon as you wake up in the morning.”   “That might be a problem,” she says “I was up very late myself, studying at the Mage’s Guild library, so will probably sleep late into the morning myself.”He then asks “Who is that with you?”  “I’m with Aradyn,” she answers a bit sharply.  “No, I mean about fifteen feet south of your physical location.  I am detecting another Astral imprint, of somebody who has been to this section of the Astral Plane before.”   She thinks for a minute, picturing who is staying in each room, and says “That would be Hiroshi, he’s our translator.”  “Would he be willing to help?” Rainville asks.  “He might,” she answers, “But how?”Rainville holds her hand and floats them over to where an extremely faint impression of a man is.  He says “Each of us should take one of his Astral hands, and I then need you to mentally call his name as loud as you can.”    She does so.  On the third call the impression of a man begins to solidify.  It is soon totally solid, and he opens his eyes.”   “Oh my,” he says, and looking to Cassie and her companion, “Well, what is this all about?”   She gestures to Rainville and says “My friend is in trouble.  He found me and has asked for help, but I need your help as well.  All I need you to do is wake me up in the morning.”  He replies “OK, fine, we can talk about that more then,” and releases both of their hand, the image then become faint again.   Rainville tells her the specific room that he is in, and then releases her hand, and they both mentally return to their sleeping bodies.</blockquote>

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