Gashka looks from Eldan, to her sister, before looking at the one they called Woden. Nodding her head she isn't really sure what to say, "Oh...okay."
"Woden said he needed some heroes to help rescue his family," Eldan says. "In exchange, he would restore me to my human form...but I'll have to leave tomorrow."
He takes a deep breath. "I'm glad to have traveled with all of you, but I know that staying here isn't my path in life. Woden's giving me a chance to do something I think I can do. Who knows? Maybe they'll be telling stories about me in the future."
She nods, "That's great, I know you weren't happy here....so, I'm glad you'll be able to do something that might actually make you happy." She says before looking away slightly. It was always hard to say goodbye to friends, but she wanted him to be happy.
"Yeah, it's rough saying good-bye...so we won't," Eldan says. "I'll be gone tomorrow, but I'll always remember you two and Corda to some degree."
She nods, "Okay, well...good luck, we'll always remember you too. I guess we better head onto the mines then. You don't have to come if you don't want to, we'll understand."
"I agreed to help with the mines, so I'll go with you," Eldan says.
She gives him a little smile, "Okay, we should be back by the morning anyways. I really wanted to have breakfast with Jerrica and her friends before they had to leave. Do you have everything? As soon as Chris is ready we were gonna head that way."
"I'm set," Eldan answers.
She nods, "Yeah, I got all our stuff in this bag so as soon as Chris is ready, we can go." She pauses for a moment, "I know we didn't get a chance to know you as well as my sister and Vishanti...but it was nice knowing you while it lasted and we wish you the very best on your journey." She takes advantage of Chris getting ready to pass out the vials of anti toxin that he made, "These will help us to better resist poison. We can take them right before we go into the mines and the effects will last for an hour. He made enough for everyone to have two vials." She explains while handing them out.
Chris emerges from the bathroom. "Alright, I'm ready."
Nodding she goes to him and hands him the two vials of anti toxin, "Here are your two vials, I already passed out the others. Eldan is going with us to the mines, but he's leaving tomorrow to go help Woden. So....we were all just wishing him well." She says before turning and heading for the door, "Alright, I guess we're all ready to go then." Gashka then opens the door and holds it for them before following them outside and locking the door behind them.
"I shall find you in the morning, Eldan," Woden says before departing.
Eldan nods before turning to Chris. "I guess you get your own bachelor pad."
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Gashka tries to hide the blush in her cheeks, but can't keep the smile off of her face.
Jerrica nods. "Want to come along, Dagmarr?"
"Sure. If you don't mind." Dagmarr says with a smile.
Vishanti grins. "I'm happy for you Eldan, and I hope this path leads you somewhere fulfilling."
Jerrica takes Sig's arm as they walk along the streets.
Derika takes Vishanti's hand as they head back to the mines.
Gashka walks a little close to Chris as they make their way through the town towards the mines.
"I'm confident it will," Eldan says as they reach the mines. "So how do we want to do this? I wasn't too helpful in the middle of the group last time."
"I'm alright with being in the middle," Chris says. "Renard can get around if anyone needs healing."
She thinks for a moment, "Why don't you and Anyka take point Eldan, in case there are any traps that need to be disabled. In the middle we'll have Chris and Vishanti, and then Derika and I will take up the rear. How does that sound?"
She shrugs, "That sounds alright to me." Looking at Vishanti she aks, "What do you think love?"
Eldan nods at Gashka.
"That would likely be the best arrangement," Vishanti agrees.
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"Works for me!" Anyka says slipping up front, twirling a dagger and re concealing it in the blink of an eye.
Once they're in the correct order, they head into the mines and make their way back to where they left off.
As the vegetables cook in the broth, Arista cuts the cheese into slices. Setting the plate of cheese aside, she takes a couple loaves of bread out of the cold box, and cuts some thick slices before arranging them in a pan and putting them in the oven to get warm and toasty after the vegetable stew has had about forty-five minutes to cook. She cleans up the work area and sink while she's waiting to heat the bread in the oven.
When the stew is close to being ready, shef sticks the bread in the oven and then pulls the sliced, marinated meat out of the cold box. Heating up some animal lard in a pan, she tosses in the meat, frying up the strips before transferring it to a towel to drain off the excess grease.
Taking the toasted bread out of the oven, she puts the hot meat in it before adding a couple slices of cheese. She makes a smaller sandwich for Celine and cuts it into quarters for her, before putting some of the soup in a smaller bowl for her. "Celine, time for lunch." She calls as she sets her daughter's lunch on the table. Arista then makes a sandwich for herself and Ylrhea, before covering the rest of the meat to keep it warm in case Alethiro came home for lunch. Setting their sandwiches on the table, she gets two bowls of soup and some spoons for all of them, and sets it all on the table.
She gets a glass of milk for herself and Celine before turning to her friend, "What would you like to drink Rhea?" She asks as she smiles, seeing Celine run into the dining room and climb into her chair by herself after she puts a napkin by all their place settings, "Ready to eat mommy." She says in her sweet voice as her tummy rumbles loudly.
Drago smiled, "A stew that she gave me a recipe for. Been taking my time and making sure it's cooked properly."
"That's good. I can't wait to taste it."
Giving his love a peck on the forehead, "You shouldn't wait long. It's almost done." Turning about, he headed back to the kitchen.
Ten minutes later, he brought out a bowl of the stew on a tray with a spoon. Setting it down on the table, the said, "Stew is served my Sweet."
Rajni takes her sandwich and a glass of milk back to the kitchen table. She sits down and eats her lunch, while thinking about seeing Dillon later.
"Thank you, love," Yulia says, blowing on a spoonful before tasting it. "This is pretty good. I ought to thank Konstantyná for taking the time to teach you."
Alethiro walks into the kitchen. "Looks like I'm just in time. Hello, Ylrhea."
Gashka, Derika and the rest return to where you fought the ogre spiders. The chamber is eerily quiet and the spiders hadn't ventured further toward the surface in your absence.
"Hello, Alethiro," Ylrhea says. "I'll take some juice, Arista."
Chris looks around. "I guess they don't want to make it easy on us."
"Spiders are clever like that," Eldan says with a chuckle.
Nodding she gets Ylrhea's juice and sets it in front of her before going to her husband. Putting her arms around him she gives his cheek a kiss, "Glad you could make it for lunch love. Why don't you get your drink and I'll fix your sandwich and soup." After dishing up some soup and making his sandwich she takes it and a napkin to him at the table, "Here you are love." Setting it in front of him she takes her seat next to Celine, "Well, enjoy everyone."
"Clever won't be enough to save them." Anyka says with a smirk as she looks around.
Derika looks around quietly.
Gashka remains quiet as well. She didn't like this at all, and just wanted to find the rest of the beasts so they could finish them off and get out of here.
Vishanti opens a pouch on her hip, her familiar floating out of it to hover near her head, the glimmering flame flickering along the stone at its center pulsing lightly.
Drago smiled then asked, "Anything else I can get you?"
Yulia shakes her head. "No, this is good for now. Anything interesting happen during your cooking lessons?"
As you proceed through the mines, the passage begins to narrow. Up ahead, you see webs along the walls. However, no one sees anything odd.
Alethiro gets some water from the ice box. "Thank you, dear."
"Mmhmm, thank you, Arista."
Taking a seat next to Yulia, "As a matter of fact, there was one thing. She had a moment where she blanked out and when I asked her about it, she said it was nothing. But I have doubts."
She smiles at her family, "You're all very welcome. I hope you enjoy it." She says, settling into her lunch.
Celine looks up and smiles, "Thank you mommy."