[@Shadow Dragon]

Ophion sighed. "I'll tolerate that for now, since you aren't going to feed on the innocent. Necrotic healing items are... okay. If you can confine your need for more energy to other undead and [i]don't[/i] harvest materials from living sentient creatures, we can work something out. Are you capable of any other forms of magic? Elemental spells? Astral magic, perhaps?"

[@bloonewb]

"Yes, please be off, my lady" the dracon replied, looking around for anyone trying to kill her. A shot gone awry might very well hit him. He backed off, not wanting to take that risk. 

The first third of Ardasa's trip out of Hekaga went without incident, apart from some occasional bumps in the road. At one point, the Hekagan guards in front of her carriage formed up in a line, blocking the road ahead of her, while some others who had been blocking another section of road on her left moved out of the way, letting her pass. This was not the most direct route out of the city, but that was to be expected; the most direct path was also the one which was most susceptible to attack, and this last-second change could thwart a would-be assassin waiting further along the direct route. 

Five minutes later, an arrow flew past the carriage, landing in front of one of the kobold guards. The metal arrowhead glowed orange and began to burn a small hole in the pavement, a sign that this wasn't an ordinary assassin at work.