"Oh, we have never met. I am just here to find out why you sent pathfinders into my home?" Jimmy says enjoying himself
Niamh rolls her invisible eyes thinking that Jimmy's performance is miserable and she did better before with that dampire.
Mrs. Heidmarch goes through the last expeditions she has sent off and whose home that might be. She is annoyed by this impertinent woman but calling her off is not relly an option with the glass golem standing there. "I'm sorry again but I send a lot of Pathfinders on a lot of missions. And none of them included you. Where is that home of yours?"
"The Lady's Light. They tried to steal from me. Poor things." Jimmy says still smiling "There was a red haired elf, a gnome, some paladin or other,a girl with dark hair and a halfling. They were fun while they lasted." She says face drooping slightly towards the end
Mrs. Heidmarch's becomes white like a whitewashed wall. Her fist clenches around the staff that her knuckles become also white.
"Ah, I see you recognize me now. Greetings, I am Sorshen."
"That's not funny. You totally ruined it." Gwenhwyfar protests standing invisible besides Jimmy.
"Pst. Now it becomes interesting" Niamh hisses and gives Gwenhwyfar an underduck.
"How do I get rid of this invisibility?" She thinks for a moment and then gives Jimmy a slap on the back of her head.
As Gwenhwyfar becomes visible again she turns to Mrs. Heidmarch "I'm sorry. We thought this could be funny to scare you a bit. But that went horrible wrong." she says with a glare to Jimmy.
"Sorry ma'am. I took it a bit too far." Jimmy says rubbing the back of his head and looking at the floor like a scolded child
Niamh gives Gwenhwyfar a glare and if she would be seen it would be clear that she disagrees.
The color of Mrs. Heidmarch changes from white to red. The veins on her neck protrude and she gnashes her teeth.
She takes a deep breath and tries to ask in a calm tone "How on golarion did you get that idea?" But her anger is easy to recognize in her voice.
"We were trying to make the best of a poor situation. We arrived at the lady's light and I opened a sarcophagus. From what we can tell, I died and then came back in this body." Jimmy says as some minor excuse
Tauriell feels the urge to explain to Mrs. Heidmarch how Jimmy ended up in Sorshen's body. But from the color of her head she decides that this is not the time for profound explanations. Even as Jimmy's explanation is not exactly a dissertation.
"As far as we can tell this body is really the body of Runelord Sorshen. It lay in this sarcophagus and as the body opened it's eyes Jimmy were inside of it and Jimmy's body dropped dead." Gwenhwyfar explains.
Behind the doors the whispers start and someone can't hold back to joke about someone who is going to die again pretty soon. And some step out of hiding to actually see who stands before the door. "That is so going into the next Pathfinder Chronicle" one of the people tells, getting out her notebook and starting to make a rough sketch.
"Didn't anyone tell you it is rude to draw people without asking them first?" Jimmy says grabbing the cloak off the floor quickly
Mrs. Heidmarch is torn between anger, confusion, compassion and still filled to the brim with adrenaline. She would need to get that out of her system somehow. "You! All into my office for an immediate report of everything that happened. Margaret bring them there. I'll follow in a few minutes."
With that she turns around and walks into her training room.
Jimmy tells the Golem to move over to the gate and wait there, and then walks after Margaret when she leads them to the office
Now that Mrs. Heidmarch is gone all restrain is gone. Some ridicule the crestfallen group. Some look with disdain and some with pity. But as the show is over everyone goes back to their former tasks.
"You heard Mrs. Heidmarch. But before you come you put that thing away from the door." Margaret orders. She then leads the group to the office and leaves them there.
Abomentolor walks to Tauriell "Do we go into the office too?"
"I'm no pathfinder. I'm definitely not going to that meeting." Tauriell chuckles. "You are one, aren't you? I wish you luck." she says and moves on to the guest house.
"Thank you very much." he grumbles and follows into the office.
Hearing Tauriell's last comment Niamh joins the elf. She also uses the excuse that Mrs. Heidmarch doesn't want her in the office in normal circumstances.
As Jimmy, Gwenhwyfar and Abomentolor sit there they hear noises from some neighbouring room. Sounds like martial arts training. And someone or something gets really beaten.
After some minutes that feel like hours the door to the office opens. Mrs. Heidmarch comes in, leans her staff at a shelf and takes a seat behind her desk. She opens a journal and takes a pencil. As the sweat pearls reappear she dabs her forehead with a handkerchief.
"Now from the beginning. What have you found and what have you done?" Mrs. Heidmarch asks. Now calm and distant again as usual.
"Well we found a sarcophagus, I opened it, died, and then was in this body."
Gwenhwyfar dutifully gives a complete report about everything they encountered and every room they passed with the maps and notes and drawings she made. And that they have found many Sorshens in the Lady's Light and finally also acquired the shard they were sent to find. "And that's all. Or do you want to add something?" she asks Jimmy and Abomentolor.
"I have the shard!" Abomentolor adds pulling out the item to show it.
"I see everyone has different talents." Mrs. Heidmarch states. "I'd also like to see what items you recovered. Where are Niamh and Tauriell?"
"Tauriell said something about not being a pathfinder and skipping this meeting." Abomentolor replies.
"I have most of the interesting items here." Gwenhwyfar replies and opens her bag of holding producing items.
"Also this." Jimmy says placing the guisarme on the table
"Great. I think I can go through the rest of that with Gwenhwyfar. You may leave now." Mrs. Heidmarch tells Abomentolor and Jimmy.
Once the two are gone she lists the items and makes notes of her own and adds what Gwenwhyfar knows about the items. After another hour she dismisses Gwenhwyfar too. "I'm sorry about what happened to Jimmy. Please let me know if there is something I can do to help with that situation. I'm going to talk to him or her later about that."
Gwenhwyfar leaves and searches for the others. She finds all of them at the guest house. "Whew. At least she didn't rip our heads off." she says as she lets herself fall onto a chair at the table.
Jimmy waits outside the house for Gwen
"Where's Brutus?" Niamh asks looking around for the dog.
"How should I know where you left your dog." Abomentolor asks.
"I didn't ask especially you!" Niamh clarifies with anger in her voice. "I should write a diary or something like that. Where did I saw him last time? It wasn't in the dungeon. Where were we before we were in the dungeon?"
In the troglodyte cave on the lady's cape
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"<Don't be sad good boy. I'm sure they'll come back to get you.>" Azoresh says patting the dog on his head.
"Whimper."
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Niamh frantically tears her hair under the head. "The tunnel? No there he wasn't. The hydra we fought alone without the dog. Where were we before that? This reptilium brought us there, right?"
"Shall I cook a good lunch? We didn't do that for quite some time and I'd like something different than apple pie and trail rations. How about I go to buy some ingredients and make an opulent meal." Gwenhwyfar suggests.
"He was with us as we passed that witch, wasn't he? Tauriell, do you have any teleports left on that stick?"