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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1228744" data-attributes="member: 1210">Jezebel's RescueHorbin and Orbius are sitting together in a reading room in Malford’s castle.“I really need to contact Marius,” Horbin mutters.  “He still has Till.*”“Well, I was going to send a sending to Jezebel,” Orbius says.  “Maybe she can help us negotiate with him.”“It’s worth a try, I suppose,” Horbin answers glumly.  Marius hasn’t been entirely forthcoming about Till’s circumstances.  In fact, he’s been quite close-mouthed and refused to divulge much of anything.  So Orbius sends a sending to Jezebel, but the reply he gets doesn’t really have much to do with anything he sends to her.  Help!  Caught by githyanki, don’t tell Marius, he’ll be furious!  Please rescue me, I’ll do anything for you!“Crap,” Orbius moans.  “She’s in trouble.  We have to rescue her.”“What about Marius?” Horbin asks impatiently, and Orbius explains the situation.  The cleric’s face falls, but he agrees to help the Eye rescue her.  The divine oracle casts gate, and the two of them look through it into an astral cell.  Jezebel sits calmly on a seat.  She looks older than when last they saw her, just weeks ago.**  When she sees the gate open, she smiles and rises.  But when she steps to the gate, she finds that she cannot pass through it!“Don’t worry.”  Horbin the Holy steps through, takes care of the wards and dimension lock with an area dispel, and together he and Jezebel step back through the gate and back to Var.“What happened?  How did you get captured?” Orbius asks.  There is worry in his voice.  “Oh, I got myself into trouble with the githyanki,” she says.  “But thank you so much for rescuing me!”  She throws her arms around Orbius and gives him a long, tight squeeze.  He finds it almost uncomfortably pleasant.Horbin leaves the two of them alone, brooding about Till.  He has to do something about that, and soon.  He’s shirked that responsibility too long.  Orbius and Jezebel, left alone, talk long into the night.  Then, at some point, the kissing finally starts.  She starts it; he’s not sure she’s old enough (and after all, how old is she really?  How can you tell when the timeflow changes all the time around you?  How many years has she experienced, under how many calendars?  Even she probably doesn’t know), so he keeps it as restrained as he can, but...In the morning, Orbius, the Eye of Boccob, heads into town to commission a wedding ring.*Horbin’s shield-bearer of old.**Because she’s been in areas of faster time passage with Marius the Chronomancer, natch.Next Time: The search for Felenga’s phylactery continues!</blockquote>

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