"Come back to me. It is time for me to teach you more." It is a mild day when a few days after the black cock festival Kroasi can be seen with a small pack of belongings and a horse. She tells Adolpho and Raven that she has been called, called by the spirit that first taught her, to go back and visit him once again. "Adolpho, I make sure to bring back some mother's milk and other drinks that you might want to have for your bar. I don't know how long I will be away, so no use in saving up a room for me. However, I was asked to bring some of that skullbuster to the vale while I am passing there... would you mind giving me a small barrel that would fit on a horse? Oh and one extra bottle for... well you know for whom..." "Raven, thank you for what you are doing for our people, and thank you more for delivering some of my messages to the Thalidd. Now it is my time and should you need anything for me to bring there, don't be short to ask." She also extends similar offers to Cain, Marokin, Mindartis, Ffiona, Beldak and some others, also in relation to their friend that helped protect the Thalidd in the past and that is remaining hidden in the vale... that monstrous woman that seems barely human but that, rumour has it in the vale, is attached to each of her comrades as a mother is to a child. Giving her that bottle might be a good opportunity to thank her for what she did for my people so far.... The ferryman sets her on the mainland and she mounts her horse and rides off. The streets to the vale being saver than they used to be. She stops in the cave left by the goblins and leaves them a writing about the coming visit of the emperor and that they ought to be especially careful in that time. She looks at the black spire and feels the chill of that monstrosity. I wish someone would finally do something about that place. And then she finally makes her way into the vale. She greets her friends, talks to her old master. "I am sorry, I have yet failed you to find a group with which to solve the problem of the orcs. I was called to the spirit I told you about, perhaps I will learn something that will help me in that cause. Though, I have found some people that are daring and fierce and might be willing to go with me on a journey to clear out the dworredeep. I will see you on my way back, master." Then she goes to meet the Thalidd, proclaims the same and hands him copies of some of the reports she has been reading, informing him about the endeavours of the empire on newly found islands, asking him if he ever heard of the dwarven kin that lives on the place calle Khulican, if he has heard about this Island or some of the other islands that have recently appeared. Also she informs him about this portal that was founds leading to an extensive cave network which the empire now calls Makra. "I do not know what leads these Emperials to such a place, it must be their eternal greed. The fail to take care of the poor in their city here already... Thalidd, I shall also send you the best of regards by Raven who has established contact with these dwarves I mentioned, he will be able to tell you much more about them when he next comes by." She asks about the woman called Sharleen and where to find her and then sets out to meet that woman, delivering the bottle of skullbuster and what the others had tasked her to bring by. Telling her of what has passed in haven and asking her if she will still be ready to join her in ridding these lands of the orcs as they had tried the last time they met, but failed and lost 3 comrades. She delivers greetings by the strange yet somehow charming tiefling that keeps hitting on the woman around him and that he told her that something will have to be done about Baels Island and about their friend, the green, wooden one. Kroasi assumes that the bard is referring to Syvil, the green clothed knight that used to live not far from here and has been captured and missing ever since. Finally she sets out, beyond the vale, a journey of almost a week into the deeper parts of maladon, tracking down the same routes she came when she was younger until she finally arrives at the canyon like rock formation that she knows so well and where she first learned about the spirits...
