Noxday, 29th of Shadow 212 EoL
Dear Diary,
Last night we decided not to sleep in the mansion so that
Shirel could test the coin we got from Primus Praetur, who told us to put it under the head while sleeping and it would grand a wish. Well this is not what happened. Shirel dreamed of some female elven merchant who can get us anything we wish for but not for free and her prices are quite expensive. Right now we can't afford anything, but it is good to know that we have this option, I guess.
In the morning we left with Fea to follow our compass and get the treasure everybody seems to be after. One member of her crew was, to our surprise, another water genasi called Alessandro. We did not know him and hope that he doesn't know us either. Alessandro is quite hot but also so annoying and overdoing it while flirting. He somehow reminded me of
my brother but in a less smart way. Alessandro was the navigator of the ship, so Trip had to communicate the directions of the compass to him. Alessandro navigated the ship partly through his water shaping powers, which I thought was quite cool.
During our trip, Trip and Shirel found out that somebody was scrying on Trip, who blocked that twice. Nevertheless, after a good four hours of sailing, out of nowhere Azrael, father's nemesis, appeared on the ship looking for Trip. He wanted to take Trip back to
Sigil to show the
Gatekeepers that he's not dead. As soon as
I saw Azrael I disguised myself into a female human, but he saw right through that disguise. We had nothing left than to fight him.
The fight was intense! Trip used his rivven which damaged the ship a lot (fortunately it was not yet sinking). Alessandro jumped over board never to be seen again. A few crew members got hurt in action. When we nearly had Azrael down, he took out a portkey and grabbed Trip's head.
Yelena then attacked Trip instead of Azrael following Trip's orders, who then was able to transform himself into a T-Rex. This made Azrael lose grip of Trip and he vanished.
I am still shaking when I think about what has happened today. Azrael knows we're alive. I took a new identity and lived a low-key life for a year for nothing? I knew it! I knew him taking of the amulet would get us into trouble! I told him so! But of course, he did not believe me. Of course, he did not take his sister seriously. And now? What do we do? I was in shock (and still am) while we were sailing back to Thelzroa. Fae was not pleased by what had happened and needed to first get her ship fixed.
Tonight we are again sleeping in the mansion. I love this mansion, it has become a safe place for me. The only one I have right now... I decided to sew something to keep myself busy because I can't sleep after what has happened today. I wanted to sew group bracelets for us so that we have something in common. It may not be much, but maybe it helps to reinforce the group feeling. While i was sewing and crying my eyes out
Drake knocked on my door.
He told me that we would leave tomorrow morning for
Sedem Lux to get a new identity and start all over. He claimed to know one guild member who could bring us into any bigger city with no questions asked. He asked me if I wanted to tell the others or not, but that he thinks it would be better not to tell them and just leave together. I was overwhelmed. I told him that I wanted to sleep a night over it, to understand what has happened and what my options were. I also reminded him that we had things to talk over as a couple and that it would not really make sense for him to build a new identity with me before we had clarified where we stand as a couple. He got furious and stormed out of my room. I followed him into his room and told him that I had to rebuild my life from scratch for the second time in a bit more than one year and again not through my own fault. That I would need some time to process what had happened and that I don't want decisions taken for me again like my father did last time. He felt like I would not love him anymore but push him away and not let him help me. Nonsense! I love him, I know what he did for me in the past year. I know I can count on him. I explained to him, that I only want to protect him from making a rushed decision that he would later regret. I totally understand if he would say that this is too much for him. I affirmed to him that I am trying very hard to not behave the same way I did last time, that I knew I had to eat and stay clear-headed. All I needed tonight was a shoulder to cry on and I thought he would provide that. He apologized and took me in his arms. Then I must have fainted because the next thing I remember is not standing next to the door anymore but sitting next to him on his bed. We decided that it was clear that I needed a new identity once we get to Sedem, but that we at least should wait the response of my father after Trip will explain what happened to him tomorrow.
I probably won't sleep tonight, I have too many thoughts running through my head. How did Azrael find us? How did he know to search for us in the first place after we faked our own deaths? Was he operating alone or did he have an accomplice? Maybe Alessandro? Why did he search for us? To get father out of the way? Is he mobilizing Sigil against us right now?
What should I do next? How should I change my identity? Should I stay within the Empire, since the Gatekeepers can't track us here for the moment? Or is it safer to go to another plane, since Azrael knows that I am on this plane right now?
Luckily I have my sewing project to keep me busy while thinking about all of that.
Love, BB <3
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