The Mage Gives Chase

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh Druid Fit, we went down there.” (points down to the ground)

Fitheach Eun: Fit talks softly with one of the ravens...

Talia Sunsong:”I needed food. Real food, not canned food.”

Fiesty Lotus: “Savage gave a show and this creepy guy gave us money.”

Fitheach Eun shakes her head; “There is real food in the pantry. You just wanted cream.”

Talia Sunsong:  “I ate a sweet bun and some vendor complained I didn't pay.”

Talia Sunsong:  “Who wouldn't want cream?”

Can Wobbit listens with amusement

Fiesty Lotus: “Then he wanted to cozy up to Savage and we ran away.”

Back on the Ship

Savage Taurus: “Yea, the guy gave me the willies.”

Rorn fusses.

Talia Sunsong: "What is it, baby Rorn?"

Fiesty Lotus: “He was really ugly and dressed funny.”

Rorn flies over to the wooden railing and gnaws on it.

Fitheach Eun: “That sounds alarming.”

Fiesty Lotus: How much coin did he give you Savage?

Talia Sunsong follows Rorn to the railing. "Oh, you're growing your fangs in, Rorn." She looks around. "Lucky the woman with bad eyesight gave me baby pacifiers when she saw Rorn in the baby carriage. She said he'd be teething soon at his size."

A Pacifier for Rorn

Savage Taurus: “I don't know. I didn't count. It was a pretty good haul for an easy show.”

Talia Sunsong: goes to the cabin and rummages about, looking for the baby things given to her by the kind stranger. She tosses things on the floor. "Eureka. I found two pacifiers."

Fiesty Lotus looks at Rorn gnawing the railing.

Fitheach Eun sits in the pilot's chair: “Perhaps we should be on our way?"

Talia Sunsong emerging from the cabin, she holds out a rubber pacifier to Rorn. He bites on it. "There that should help."

Fiesty Lotus: “Hope yer kin fix that - the ship is already getting a lot of wear.”

Fitheach Eun: "Might this person follow you?”

Talia Sunsong: "Let's go before the creepy guy follows us."

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes, good idea.”

Fitheach Eun: "Can has been working on the repairs."

Talia Sunsong: "See Can will fix the railing the Rorn chewed on, instead of me doing it."

Backing up the Ship

Fitheach Eun releases the lock and backs the ship slowly away from the dock.

Rorn chews on the rubber pacifier like its gum.

Talia Sunsong: "No, Rorn, don't chew it like that."

Fitheach Eun: "Which way shall we go?"

Talia Sunsong: "Go towards more cream, and desserts."

Fitheach Eun: "Yes, I imagine you have a homing instinct for those, Talia."

Talia Sunsong nods proudly.

Savage Taurus: grumbles, "It's not natural for a dragon pup to be raised around hominids. Kids chew. That's what they do. What can you do?"

Fitheach Eun Fit points the bow to the north

Fitheach Eun: Let's continue this way?

Talia Sunsong: Rorn makes a face like the pacifier tastes bad. He spits out the mangled rubber pacifier onto the deck.

Fitheach Eun: “Maybe he needs a bone one?”

Talia Sunsong: reaches for part of the railing that Rorn broke off. "Here Rorn, chew on the wooden railing for a pacifier."

Fiesty Lotus: “That there be a good idea.”

Rorn bites into the bit of wood. He scrunches up his face and blows out a puff of fire, burning up the wood.

Talia Sunsong: "Rorn, no!"

Fiesty Lotus goes into the cabin and emerges with a bone from their supper.

Fiesty Lotus: “Here - try this Talia.”

Talia Sunsong: takes the bone from Fiesty. "Rorn, here's a nice bone for you to teethe on."

Fitheach Eun watches as another airship approaches rapidly

The Dragon Ship Approaches

Rorn grabs the bone enthusiastically.

Talia Sunsong turns to look at a familiar airship. "Didn't we see that dragon masthead airship before?"

Rorn gallops happily around the deck, the bone in his mouth.

Fiesty Lotus looks at the ship.

Fiesty Lotus: “It was parked by us at the place we were just at.  I wonder..”

Out of sight of the refugee crew, a small dark winged creature flies off the strange airship. It lands quietly on the cabin roof, and peers down at the crew.

A Strange Creature Lands on the Ship

Baby Rorn stops chewing and stares at the creature, which quickly backs away from the edge of the roof, and hides behind a chest.

Savage Taurus notices Rorn's strange expression, "Whatcha starin' at, pup?" Looks up but doesn't see anything.

Fitheach Eun looks towards the dragon headed ship and see a dark figure at the pilot wheel.

Fitheach Eun: "What did the creepy person look like?”

Talia Sunsong: "I was eating.. let's see what did he look like?"

Fiesty Lotus squints at the airship “It looks like that person."

The Fae tilts her head in thought, but the image of the sweet bun fills her head instead of remembering the creepy man.

Fit's elven eyes see the pilot clearly: "A short human looking one in a dark hood?"

The Mage on the Dragon Ship

Talia Sunsong leans over the railing to look for the man on the dragon airship.

Fitheach Eun: “I think we need to gain some speed.”

Fitheach Eun: “Fiesty, let us call up some wind?”

Talia Sunsong: "His airship is getting closer."

Fiesty Lotus: “Sounds good ter me.” (Grabs her staff.)

Fitheach Eun: Dragon could you drive please?

Savage Taurus: peers across the void to the other ship with the dragon masthead, his keen draconian eyes focusing on figure standing, on the bow, "Yeah, that looks like the guy at the gypsy camp..."

Fitheach Eun raises her staff and calls to the air spirits.

Talia Sunsong: "That creepy guy sure has a creepy crew."

Fitheach Eun: "Spirits of the air come to our aid; raise strong winds to blow us on"

Fiesty Lotus begins an air chant.

Fit and Fiesty Call up the Wind

Savage Taurus hops into the pilot's seat and pushes the lever forward and steers them away from the approaching vessel.

The ship picks up speed as the wind increases

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh Spirit of wind, grant us swift winds.”

Fitheach Eun: "Sisters of the air make the winds stronger."

Fiesty Lotus: “Spirit of wind, give us speed.”

The ships dashes forward in response to the gale being raised.

They go at a good clip- leaving the airship behind.

Talia Sunsong shivers from the strong wind. She picks up Rorn and cuddles him close.

The dark ship soon fades from sight

The Refugees Ship Pulls Away from the Mage

Talia Sunsong: "I feel better without that ship in our sight."

Fitheach Eun: "Turn east Dragon, we do not want to keep the same course.”

Fiesty Lotus: “I think we otter mebby change course.”

Fitheach Eun smiles at her druid sister.

Fiesty Lotus nods at Druid Fit.

Savage Taurus: nods and looks at the position of the sun and steers the ship eastward.

Fiesty Lotus: “We might even see about makin us invisible- that is iffn that ship comes around again.”

Talia Sunsong: "Well, I hope that's the last we'll see of the creepy man."

Fitheach Eun: “Me, too, Talia.”

Fitheach Eun: “We could at least raise a mist around us.”

Fitheach Eun raises a concealing mist around the airship

Fiesty Lotus: Yes, good idea iffn we need it.