"How about we draw straws who has to stay in this hole for another day?" Tauriell suggests.
"Gwen?" Jimmy turns to her
"I have no preferences about who to take." Gwenhwyfar replies "Are there volunteers to stay here for that day?"
"I volunteer Abomentolor. He told that these lands look like the home of fire or some other stupid s+@~. Which sounded a lot like he likes it here." Tauriell argues.
"I can wait here. One day isn't a long time." Hector replies.
"How about you take Hector and Niamh and I use the time to show Tauriell the beauty of this land." Abomentolor tells with a mischievous smile.
"Jimmy, would you prepare some straws?" Gwenhwyfar asks.
Jimmy looks at her in some shock and prepares straws, one for everyone except Gwen.
"Why are you looking that way? You shall only make straws for them. To make sure none of them is cheating." Gwenhwyfar comments with a chuckle.
"I have no problem with staying here either. I guess I can practice" Niamh says nodding toward her instruments.
Jimmy now looks very sheepish and takes a straw out of the collection and hands them over to Gwen
"Hey, that's great. Then there are two real volunteers." Gwenhwyfar tells. "I'll come and fetch you first thing after sunrise tomorrow." she tells Hector and Niamh.
"We need to fetch Brutus ASAP, too" Niamh answers.
"I guess Brutus has to wait a day longer." Gwenhwyfar replies. "Now all who come hold hands." she orders and once everyone is in contact she says the word and all appear in the park of Heidmarch Manor at the tree in front of the guest house.
"Interesting choice for your travel destination." Tauriell comments as she sees where they are.
"Great." Abomentolor grumps as he sees where they are. But then his face brightens as he realizes that this will be a day full of relaxing and no fighting. So there is no need to make his legs hurt by walking. "Thanks for bringing me here. Maybe we'll meet later. I'll be at my temple."
He casts fly and off he flies on the direct route to the tower clock.
"Yes. I didn't want to scare mom by appearing in the temple again. And this place I was pretty sure that we don't end up in someone else's space." Gwenhwyfar explains. "And we can say a short hello to Mrs. Heidmarch if we want." She look sat Jimmy to determine if they want or if Jimmy has other plans.
"I'm going home first. Visiting her has time until tomorrow. See you." Tauriell replies and leaves heading to the Irespan.
"It would be good to tell her we have found the next shard." Jimmy says to Gwen
"Then let's go and visit her." Gwenhwyfar says. She takes Jimmy's hand and walks with him to the door of the manor house. She knocks at the door.
Jimmy smiles at her as they wait
Margaret opens the door. She looks at the two and checks the surroundings.
"No shenanigans this time?" she asks with a smug smile. "Please come with me. Mrs. Heidmarch will receive you."
Margaret leads the way to the office, knocks, opens the door and announces the visit. "Miss Gwenwhyfar and Mr. Fiddle are here." She then retreats.
"Please come in, take a seat." Mrs. Heidmarch offers. "How was your trip to Kaer Maga?"
Gwenhwyfar gives a short rundown of the events in Kaer Maga without going into too much detail. "... and finally we found the shard and got out of there by using a scroll of plane shift. But that is highly inaccurate and so we ended up in the Cinderlands. As the number of teleport spells I can cast is limited, Hector and Niamh had to stay there. Tomorrow I'll fetch the others from there. And once Niamh is back you can take a look at the shard."
"Who is Hector?" Mrs. Heidmarch inquires.
"Oh, he is a really strong half orc Tauriell bought in Kaer Maga on the meat market." Gwenhwyfar answers.
Mrs. Heidmarch raises an eyebrow. "Slavery? But not here in Magnimar!"
Gwenhwyfar blushes. She feels like she ratted out Tauriell. Scolded that way, even though it's not pointed at her catches her off guard leaving her speechless.
"From what I can tell he is a slave no longer, though he still acts as one."
"From what you can tell... I guess I have to talk to Tauriell about this." Mrs. Heidmarch states. "Would you give me your journals to copy them?" she asks.
"Ehmmm... they're not ready. I have to finish the entries first." Gwenhwyfar admits.
"Ah, alright. Then take your time and bring them once you're ready." Mrs. Heidmarch replies.
"Alright. I think we're leaving now." Gwenhwyfar replies looking at Jimmy for approval. We'll come back to you once everything is done.
Once outside her self-doubts gets the better of her. "I feel like I got sent home for not doing my homework." she tells Jimmy.
"We do still somewhat work for her, and when you look at what we normally give her, we gave her very little this time." Jimmy says thinking
"Then let's go and fetch up on our undone work." Gwenhwyfar replies with a sigh. "Where shall we go for this? The guest house?"
"That sounds like a good idea." Jimmy says taking her hand as they walk out
Gwenhwyfar walks with Jimmy to the guest house. It is still as they left it. Though only Niamh is still living there now. She takes a seat at the table and gets her journals out.
Flipping through the pages she sighs "That's really negligent work." As she reaches the last page she ponders her options for a moment and then tells "I'll simply do it from scratch."
She starts with a short summary of the trip to Kaer Maga. Describes the events on the Twilight Path and adds a sketch of the monsters as well as one of the talisman Jimmy got.
That's followed by a description of the kidnapping and liberation of the Augur Troll Augustille from the home of Berkanin Ardoc. With a sketch of how Augustille was found in the rack.
Then she leaves out how they found the entrance through the library as she doesn't want to give away their secret. She writes a detailed description of the rooms and it's inhabitants in the Runelord's realm with a lot of sketches.
As a short interlude she adds the Caulborn. Lastly she describes the Black Forrest and what the group encountered there.
As she is finally done and everything is noted down in a manner worthy of a Pathfinder it's evening already. She packs up and looks at Jimmy. "So what are we doing now? I guess there are still some hours left before I have to go to bed."
"Perhaps we could retire together early?" Jimmy suggests quietly
"That's not a bad idea." Gwenhwyfar replies.
Jimmy grins a very childish grin as he grabs Gwens hand
Gwenhwyfar smiles back and leans her head on Jimmy's arm. "Where are we going to sleep tonight?"
"How about on the top of the Irespan?" Jimmy says remembering the view he shared with Gwen when they were last there
"But this time we should at least bring some sleeping bags and blankets." Gwenhwyfar says with a smile whileremembering the last time.
"And a lot of pillows." Jimmy says, "We could grab some here, or from the orphanage probably."
"That feels wrong. Just let's walk past a shop and buy some." Gwenhwyfar suggests. She puts her hands on Jimmy's shoulders and presses her lips on his. As she releases his lips she whispers a word and they stand in front of a merchants stall with piles of blankets and pillows. "Do you have some money with you?"
"I have some yes." Jimmy says digging around for his coin pouch and finally finding it
Gwenhwyfar takes her hands from Jimmy's shoulders and points with her eyes to the warez.
Jimmy finds the largest pillows he can see as well as the biggest and fluffiest blankets. He grabs 3 blankets and as many pillows as he can carry
Gwenhwyfar laughs heartily at the sight of Jimmy drowning in pillows. She grabs one of them from him just before it falls to the ground. Once he paid she hugs him with all the stuff between them and whispers the word again.
In the blink of an eye the scenery changed to sunset over the sea. Seen from the edge of the Irespan.
Jimmy lays out the fluffiest blanket on the floor and creates a nest with the pillows. Once done he offers her his hand to lower her to the pillows and drapes the remaining blankets over them as he lies down next to her