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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 996763" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGEMENT 092“The Sand Settles” “She can’t have just disappeared!”  Yells Mania digging wildly in the sand at the base of the rocks.  “She was here and suddenly wasn’t” replied Dessantee stepping back.  He expected Mania to take a swing at him.“I can’t detect her or anything else with thought beyond us” answers Cosa concentrating on a detection spell he had.Ten minutes go by and finally Mania stops digging.  The large rock here jutting out of the sand and silt appears to be part of the broken bedrock in this area.  Mania dug several feet down its sides before he found the shifting sands would just refill any space he created in haste.  She was gone.  Glaze, Songwriter, was gone.  Perhaps dead like Stonecrusher.Another hour goes by before Mania gives in that she is gone from them.  As preplanned, they stay here near the rocks waiting for the cooler conditions to come.  She doesn’t resurface and finally they give in that she is gone…  their inspiration with her.The next night leads to new trouble.  A group of Gith began moving in a parallel pattern with them.  Mania, having no love for gith and in great need of tense release decides to fall back a bit.  The Gith go for it.These are smaller and less hearty than the Blue Bones Tribe Gith.  He turns whirling his magical Singing Sticks.  They whistle as they strike the first gith.  It’s head snaps to the side and it goes down.  His follow through stuns the next gith.  They try to gang up on him but their numbers work against them.  The five need to worry about stabbing each other.  He has no care for where he swinging.  A solid jaw crushing shot kills the next Gith.  Two more go down and he turns to them next.  In mere seconds, this traveler has killed 4 of the six of them and he has but one small bruise from a lucky shot on his arm.  The last two run.  Dessantee reaches up to do something.  Cosa stops him and mouths a simple “no” to him.  Enough is enough.“They may bring back more of their clan to truly press us however” replies the elf.Cosa doesn’t hear him.  She is looking at the man before her.  He is not the man she knew a few days before.  Where did her boy-like man go that needed help?  Now she sees only an angry man intent on killing any in his way.Was she wrong to disagree with her Veiled Alliance members?</blockquote>

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