Saint elderwood uses vines to lift herself up, out of the chamber. Saint dread grabs onto a vine and is lifted up out of the secret room. Morgan grabs my hand summoning the metal wings and she lifts us out of the chamber. The two others quickly run off, morgan starts walking still keeping a hand on my arm.
"Caster."
I look over at her, she seems very serious
"don't tell anyone about the ice shards you gathered"
i raise a eyebrow at the very odd request but I nod at the request
"no, I mean it, do not tell a soul. I'll tell you more later but until then you can not tell anyone"
she lets go as she starts speed walking towards the open dreamgate. I follow her to it. In front is, of course it is, its war.
"Move along, we have a raid in two days."
I can't help but resent them, throwing us into a great terror. Wait is that a real injury? Their skin nits back together, slower then normal. A fight withe the dreamspawn? Did he raid us, or did they raid him? I doubt that matters much. I go through the dreamgate. Its so loud even from here. I notice Saint elderwood give war a glare before moving along. Saint dread throws a arm around my should
"look man be careful. You dont know what kind of snakes are around here. Or what kind of snake."
She lets go walking off with her arms behind her head in a relaxed position. I walk into the military camp, its somehow fuller then before.
"Caster!"
I sigh heavily
"hello saint guide of the dead"
she smacks the back of my head
"stop calling me that, my name is Avery. I get you legacies place importance on stuff like true names above all, but gods damn it, it can't be that important"
i rub the back of my head
"don't you have other things to be doing?"
She gets visibly annoyed
"of course i do, but yet here i am, talking to some self important wet wipe."
I walk past her, not really willing to deal with how loud she is. I sit in front of the fire at the center of the camp.
"Don't just ignore me"
she sits down next to me with a visibly annoyed expression
"what do you even want saint guide of the dead"
i put my hands out warming myself up.
"One of the Saints, a real important one had a real weird question. Something about a bunch of torches."
Shit
"let me guess, it was saint seer of the infinite"
she gets a slightly surprised look
"and no there was nothing big about the torches. Their torches."
She rolls her eyes
"yeah thats all I needed to know"
she gets up
"What did you all get assigned to do anyways"
i sigh again at the fact she isn't leaving
"we had to take a new citadel"
she tilts her head
"Oh what was the guardian?"
I rub my hands together
"you know the soul devouring tree, well it was a stronger version of that"
She makes a hiss
"oh damn, thats real unfortunate. That thing was real god damn vile."
Was? I look over at her
"what happened to it?"
She waves her hand
"the lord of shadows killed it back before the first domain war."
She smirks to herself
"Burnt it down apparently. A few of the younger versions of heat seeker went to the forgotten shores a while back."
I try not to freeze up. Please tell me they didn't find my notebook. While it doesn't have anything important, I was quite angsty back then.
"Yeah okay."
I look around
"morgan wants to talk with me alone in not too long"
I get up quickly walking away. I hear her mutter something about a cylinder for some reason.
I quickly find morgan by my tent. She sees me, grabs my armor and pulls me in.
"you haven't said anything right?"
I shake my head
"no, seer of the infinite sent guide of the dead to ask about it, though"
she starts tapping her foot in thought
"already?"
She purses her lips. Finally she summons a memory, its to make sure nobody can hear us
"those ice shards, the runes on them weren't just for fire, their a map"
a map? That would explain the odd runes on them
"to?"
She sits down at a small desk
"I'm not sure but I do have a few ideas. I believe its to the ruins of the snow city"
I blink in confusion
"from what im aware of it was destroyed"
she shakes her head
"looking between the lines, it wasnt destroyed, pillaged and everyone inside killed, but not destroyed"
she rakes her hand down her face.
"I don't know why seer of the infinite wants to know about it, but knowing she does means that whatever is inside of it is likely incredibly valuable."
I sit down on my bed
"and if war was to find that out they'd likely send quite a few of us in like a meat grinder."
I pipe in
"that depends on quite a few things. What's so valuable in it, what nightmare creatures are in there, and what kind of environmental dangers are around and in it"
she nods slowly
"either way, its bad news"
I look around, then i lean towards her
"what happened to the map?"
"I traded them with jet, that and a passive warmth memory for the memory she got from the guardian of the newest citadel"
I frown
"so... so your letting soul reaper check it out before anyone else?"
She shrugs
"yes, she's well aware of how dangerous it likely is."
I sigh leaning back until I fall on my bed. There's a long silence
"death will likely explore it when this is all done.... i wonder what their doing anyways"