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Selphie:
"Guests?" Zazigh repeats.
He looks up and nearly falls down the last few steps.
"Um...where did you all come from?" he asks.
"Hyssmaye," one of them replies. "Just south of Gastil."
Zazigh looks at you with a questioning look.

Jasmine:
Senythra sighs.
"You've been hinting at it all day," she says. "It's about time you fessed up to it. I'm not the police. I'm not the Eleixandre. Hell, I'm probably not even a Black Cloak anymore! I'm not going to arrest you. I wasn't much better before I was taken by the White Coats..."

"I saw them walking when looking out my window, so I decided to bring them here!" I say cheerfully.

"I'd rather everyone try to stay together right now, we don't really have enough skilled fighters to defend one place well, let alone two," I say.

Shi'ita continues to clean up the place, doing whatever he can to make it clean and friendly, without getting into the two women's ways either.

"She was in the jail cell with us, and since none of us really had much to go back to, we all just stuck together." I reply to Senythra. "Mostly it was me and this other guy who helped her out, since our cells flanked her's, but he disappeared mysteriously on our travels... There really wasn't much warning, maybe he just didn't want anything to do with our struggle anymore and decided to live by himself or something..."

Jasmine:
"That's not too odd, really," Senythra replies. "A few of the victims from my wave have chosen to go off on their own. I saw one of them about a year ago. He's doing pretty good. People view him as a shaman and go to him for spiritual guidance. He lives up near the northernmost shore of Hyssmaye, which is still under the Czar's control. He has a few bursts of monkey every once in a while, but he's generally a sane human being."

Selphie:
In the dead forest behind the castle, you fail to find anything, but you do find a stockpile of weapons in the foothills of the mountain to the east. They bear the mark of your homeland, Omissar. You find this odd, but choose to ignore it and just take them back to the castle.

Everyone:
After a while of sweeping, Shi'ita, Desta, and Laci finish up and are able to look at the kitchens with pride. Jasmine and Senythra send Tellat down to see what's going on, and she ends up spending several hours with Zazigh as he gets the Hyssmayians settled in. Jasmine and Senythra get much more personal during their time alone, but eventually come down to find out what happened to Tellat. Everyone, including the Hyssmayians, are given a single apple and two handfuls of oats and rice for dinner. Selphie bursts in during dinner bearing Omissarian weaponry that she says was stockpiled in the mountain to the east. When Jasmine and Senythra bring up finding a safer location, Hyssmayians suggest going to Haseem, as King Dolaith has always been very anti-Eleixandre and would happily take in refugees from the vile empire. Senythra doesn't seem happy about going back to Haseem, but agrees that it is logical. Zazigh suggests discussing again in the morning, when everyone has had a good night's rest. Everyone goes to bed quietly. Tonight, Tellat and Zazigh leave the third floor for the royal quarters so that the Hyssmayians can each have their own rooms, and Senythra can join Jasmine in her room without the awkwardness of a third person.



Jasmine:
You wake up in Senythra's arms with her head resting on your (once again) aching breasts.

Selphie:
You wake up with Laci on your stomach once more. Near the bed, the Omissarian weapons you recovered are undisturbed.

Laci:
You wake up on Selphie's stomach once again. It's still quite comfy!

Desta:
You wake up once more wrapped in Shi'ita's leathery wings.

Shi'ita:
You once again wake up with Desta still wrapped in your leathery wings.

Everyone:
You can all hear the Hyssmayians talking to each other in the hall.

I try to shift out from under Senythra, assuming she was still asleep since she didn't show signs to indictcate the contrary.

Jasmine:
You get out from under her easy enough. She is still fast asleep, her butt sticking up in the air in a very funny manner, considering the look on her face.