A friend in need

About 5 months had passed since the torn leylines incident and then the universe gave me a reason to leave home again. I had been practising my archery one morning, and had missed the target more than once due to anxiety because father was watching. He did not bother to hide his dissapointment and then we got into another discussion about my failed betrothal.
 
Suddenly a bunch of guards ran past us and to my surprise i saw Gurval sitting on what appeared to be a giant lizard of sorts coming towards us. Gallant looked like he was about to attack this giant lizard but i was able to calm him down. I greeted Gurval and told the guards to stand down because these visitors meant no harm. I was glad to see my friend and asked him who was the giant lizard that he was sitting on. It turned out to be Arthom which i would never had guessed snce i had only ever seen him turn into a warhound. I could see the dissaproval in my fathers eyes as he looked at Gurval, and Arthom roared in fathers face after he had started criticizing me about the type of friends i had made. Thank goodness they did not fight each other after that.
 
Gurval then said that a master Opah had entered his dream and said Ko Rava was in trouble. I did not hesitate telling Gurval that i would be happy to help him find our friend. Even though this meant dissapointing my family yet again, i knew i would have felt worse if i did nothing to help find Ko Rava. Father did not waste time in persuading me to stay and reminding me of the shame i would bring if i left again. I told him i needed to help my friend and hoped that he would welcome me back. I also asked him to explain to my mother and sister why i left. After i quickly packed my bag and weapons i jumped on Arthom, whistled to Gallant to follow and then left my homeland once again.
 
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We arrived at a nearby coastal town and made our way towards the wharf. Gurval mentioned he had arranged passage for us to Zynii cause that was the last place Ko Rava was at, and was paying the captain with crates of milk from his milk farm. Arthom had shifted out of his lizard form and the Captain, who told us her name was Chicks, welcomed us on board. A few minutes later a group in black cloaks with a skull emblem walked past the boat. I thought i saw Lucid leading the group and Gurval must have thought so too cause he kept calling out Lucid's name. Lucid appeared to ignore Gurval and continued to walk towards town. I decided to invetigate further to see if it was Lucid and also thought we could use his help in finding Ko Rava.
 
I walked through the merchant section of the coastal town scanning for any sign of Lucid. I described Lucid to a couple of merchants to see if they knew of him, but all they did was try to sell me stuff. Suddenly Lucid appeared behind me and i did not waste time telling him about Ko Rava and that i needed him to decide now if he was going to help, because we ony had 15 iminutes before the ship left. Thankfully Lucid aggreed to help us.
 
Arthom seemed to ignore Lucid once we got on board and the ship departed. Suddenly Gurval screamed out and i ran to help him, I then realised he was okay and was showing off a prosthetic arm that Arthom had made him. I was always happy when Arthom showed his softer side since it was not often that we saw it. I spoke with Lucid and discovered he had joined a guild called the Black Skulls and had done some missions with them. Captain Chicks then called out and we saw another ship was approaching. As the ship got closer i could out make the crew was made up of various types of people including a dwarf with no arms. A female elf with a black eye patch and caramel dreadlocks, who i assumed was the captain, screamed out that she wanted to make a deal of sorts. Captain Chicks did not have a chance to respond because Gurval walked out of the hold with a barrel of milk and then cast a spell which teleported him to the other ship. He began offering the crew milk but they drew their swords and it was obvious they were not in the mood for milk.
 
I called out to Gurval to get back to our ship cause i was worried they would all attack him. Once he returned captain dreadlocks demanded that Captain Chicks hand over her ship. Lucid then attempted to talk with captain dreadlocks and she told Lucid that their former captain had shadow powers and had been killed by a pale Phrat'ii. Lucid then decided to tell them all about the soul that was fuzed with his which i thought was a silly idea. Upon hearing this the crew on the other ship looked like they wanted to attack us, but then captain dreadlocks stopped them and exclaimed their captain had returned in a new form. Captain dreadlocks then proposed that Captain Chicks could keep her ship but Lucid was to go with them and be their captain. Arthom was happy to let Lucid go and it dawned on me that he had not forgiven Lucid for taking the soul. I told captain Dreadlocks that we needed Lucid's help to find our friend and he could join them after. She seemed to accept this compromise and then demanded that her crewmembers Toes and Fingers would accompany us, to ensure we kept to the deal. After her crewmembers boarded our ship she leaned over to give Lucid a long deep kiss and then they sailed off.
 
The one called fingers would not leave me alone for the rest of the voyage and kept making lewd comments to me. Even though i told him i was not interested he did not seem to take the hint. We finally arrived at Zyniii and proceeded to find lodgings for the night. We currently had no idea where to begin to look for Ko Rava. Zyniii was such a large city it felt like we were looking for a needle in a haystack. As we were walking Gurval tripped and a poster fell on head. The poster had a picture of Zyanya and Zeno and announced their upcoming show at the Topaz district. We then decided that this would be where we would begin our search.