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[A somewhat nervous voice comes across the telepathic connection, trying to get people's attention but obviously feeling uncomfortable doing just that. She rambles more than actually imparts, but hey, at least the information's coming across, right?]

Okay, so. Um. I know everybody's all focused on dragons and stuff, but there's that missing queen problem, too, right? And there's this illuminated guy who was selling riddles about it. I don't know what to do with them, but I guess somebody out here does, right?

[She hopes. Because while she can tell what they mean, for the most part, she doesn't have the knowledge to finish the puzzle-- nor, really, the desire to risk herself in trying.]

So, uh. If somebody wants to find the "lonesome thicket" where the throne is hiding with a "magic flower", bringing it back to where it belongs is supposed to be the first step to getting the queen back.

[If she's got the answer right, anyway.]

I can read you the riddles if you really want-- I wrote them down after I left-- but they're kind of dumb. The first one was so easy I got it in, like, a second. The second one's harder, but I think that's just because I don't know this country very well, and I got most of it.

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Yeah, it could be. I just don't know what else it could be. Is there a place or a person or something who's like a flower, around here?

You've got me. [He really has no idea what the hell is in this place.] Maybe they mean someone's name. Girls are named after flowers a lot, aren't they? Rose or Lily or Sakura or Violet or Petunia. Right?

[Riddles. Why does everything have to be complicated? He really ought to be a little less cranky about things.]

Yeah, so this guy I know just told me there's a Violet illuminated guy, just like the Orange one I talked to. So I guess you're right, there. It's probably him. I mean, who else would want something that has power to feed on it except somebody who's got magic, right?

Huh. That sounds like it could be it, right? He's magic all right if he's one of those illuminated types.

[Well okay hey look riddle solving.]

...if he's had the throne all this time, why is he hiding it anyway?

Don't ask me, I just got here a couple weeks ago. The riddle says he wanted the power, though, so I guess there's something special about it that a magic-person might want.

I guess that makes sense.

...as much as any of this makes sense. [Which is not very much. Kuzuryuu is not made for Renaissance Faire type stuff.]

One of the other illuminants was talking about the queen and how important it was for the whole realm to get her back. So does that make this violet guy the villain here?

I don't know. Maybe he's just testing the kingdom or something? I mean, my friend back home, he had to take us all through so many stupid tests to get stuff. Maybe it's like that.

Or maybe he is the villain. Could be either way, I guess.

Testing the kingdom?

[And well okay, color him curious.] What sort of tests do you mean? What did you guys have to do?

[He can't figure out what sort of test it would be for them here, exactly. Like a quest of something, maybe.]

Well! At one place, we had to go through four rooms, each having to do with a season, in order to get to this statue thing that's supposed to help us against the king of shadows. The winter room was nasty.

Then!

[There's the sense that she might be counting on her fingers.]

We had to collect this dead lady's shield and sword and scepter, in order to get through a door to get to another statue thing.

And then, I wasn't there for this, but our leader had to answer a bunch of questions about Neverwinter in order to get through the basement of the castle, to get to Lord Nasher. I'm glad I wasn't there for that.

Huh. Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of puzzles to get through. Like a scavenger hunt. What was your goal?

[What sort of goal makes those sorts of quests make sense. Or maybe that's what it is, like the sort of quests in stories about knights and such.

Hmm.]

I hope it was worth it at least.

Oh, it was all to try and save the kingdom from the big undead shadow king.

[Neeshka thinks it as off-handedly as she could. It partly works, because on the whole, she doesn't really care about saving the kingdom, so long as her skin is safe... but it is still a bit scary, and she still worries about her friends, in that labyrinth without her. So it's not really as casual-sounding as she'd like.]

Typical hero stuff, you know.

Right. Typical hero stuff.

[None of that is anything Kuzuryuu would consider typical where he's from. At all. But the way she mentions it so casually, he has to assume that it's at least remotely normal in her world.]

So that makes you a hero, huh?

... I guess it kinda does.

[Even if she'd only really been following friends around. She sounds a bit surprised to make that connection. Then she starts to grin.]

Wow, I've never been called a hero before.

Even going through all that you haven't? Well. I guess you have now.

[There you go, a hero. Why not? Besides, this place looks like it could use a few people with heroic experience of one sort or another.

Dragons and all.]

Weeeeeeell, most people are seeing me in person, rather than hearing a list of important stuff I've done and helped out with, and that kind of puts them off to thinking I'm a hero.

[And mostly they're right, too. Oh, well.]

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