A Bit of Help ~ by SaralynArati

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Summer Wind and Smoke Cat Watching return to their families in the west, but Shooting Star's mother remains with the newlyweds for a time, awaiting a ship to ostensibly take her back south. She will probably travel via magical doorway again, but the elderly woman has not yet decided which is more to be avoided: a long voyage or a strange transition. Silver Fox and Estel are enjoying a period of rest and relaxation, with nothing but official outings and actions, before their next adventure.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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So, for the time being, all of Shooting Star and Silver Fox's difficulties are over. He must return to his hunting party and relieve Maestro Sun Son of the duty of pretending to be the younger man. She feels the need to identify which ships coming into port were going to buy the formerly doomed farm folk and capture them; Estel will supervise this action, due to her seagoing experience, but the ships will be claimed in the name of the Central Kingdom, assuming appropriate crews can be found.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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Meanwhile, Falling Leaves, the wife of Sun Son and a formidable magician herself, scried for Estel. It is nearly impossible to scry for a person using their nickname or alias, which is why so many pirates and other outlaws adopt them. However, when Estel went through the portal earlier in the evening to engage the guards and free the cartload of peasants, she became immediately visible to Falling Leaves. She, in turn, alerted Silver Fox, who was able to speed to the rescue in his carriage.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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Shooting Star's mother is responsible for the whole incident, really, since she was the one who wrote to Silver Fox, telling him that he needed to watch Estel's back more closely. To do that, and yet still appear to be far away with his hunting party, the young noble appealed to Master Sun Son and his wife. The maestro put on the magical guise of Silver Fox, proclaimed that he had a bad flu and was too ill to entertain anyone, and was seen just often enough to prove that he was still there.

10 years ago