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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kinem" data-source="post: 5465501" data-attributes="member: 24234">Raul only sighs and nods when Jiles returns to the wagon.Jiles finds a spot on the floor of the wagon in which to sleep - not the most comfortable, but certainly better than some places he's had to sleep.The rest of the night passes uneventfully. In the morning, Jiles gets up first and steps outside.As the rising sun burns away the cool morning fog, it becomes clear that you are no longer where you were last evening. You are on a small island, in the middle of a wide river. All around you, forested hills painted spectacularly in the bright yellow, red, and orange colors of autumn, stretch westward to meet a crisp blue sky and eastward to distant mountains. Wild birds fly overhead - small flocks of swallows and crows, mostly, interspersed with a few noisy bluejays.Raul gets up, puts Nikko in the crib, and joins Jiles outside. He looks around."I am sorry to have dragged you into this" he says "but I didn't know this would happen.I don't know where we are, exactly, but no doubt the mists have brought us to my Homeland. My People can sometimes travel the mists, but few have any control over it. It is very rare to leave the Homeland, but some of my People have done it. Perhaps if we can find a tribe of my People, they can find you a way home. Yet it is said that even the most powerful wizards can be trapped here.I'm afraid there is more bad news. My People - the Vistani - have a way with curses. I saw and heard everything that happened last night. A curse pronounced while dying is very potent and most likely to take effect. I don't know exactly what form Leyla's curse will take, but all hope is not lost for you there either. While a mere priestly spell is unlikely to have much effect against such a curse, it is possible that the Raunie - the matriarch, you may say - of a tribe of my People would be able to find a way for you to lift it.So we need to find my People, for both our sakes. And if we can get off this island, the best way to do that is to find a town. For where there are giorgio, you will sometimes find the Vistani."</blockquote>

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