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Kai drew a circle, then four short lines coming out of it pointed towards the cardinal directions. In the center they placed the bones of the chicken they ate last night, clapped their hands twice, then called upon Khiar-koff to hear their prayer, before setting the bones on fire. The flames were magenta; Khiar-koff was present. Kai said a prayer in the language of the dead, asking for another day their death is delayed. As the prayed the flames turned dark purple, then black, before burning out and leaving nothing behind. 

[color=557D45]"Na'mn,"[/color] Kai ended their prayer, then smudged out the markings just as the boat pulled into the dock a mile or so outside Hopes Passage. 

Weeks ago, Kai said farwell to the only father they acknowledge having, Khym, and traveled days through the mountains west of Darington. On the other side they paid for a boat and crew to take them around the east outskirts of the Shattered Isles and down the Ophran River to the lake below Exusia. The journey was safer than traveling on land where they would have run into bandits, slavers, any manner of deadly creature. Pirates didn't bother traveling this far inland. Not many ways to escape going in a straight line, and it wasn't worth the gamble of whether or not whatever crew they run into being stronger than them. 

Kai paid the captain the other half of the amount owed for the journey, then set out to the land of new opprotunity. They sent their Kisha, El, ahead of them to scout for danger. The sun beat down from above, worse in the Bone Sea than in Darington and Dakora, their water skin might not make it to Hopes Passage, and their hair on their neck didn't help. They tied back their brown and blond locks with thread from their sowing kit. El came back with nothing to report other than sand and bones; those of which they picked up on the way and put in their sack for tomorrow's sacrifice. When they reached the eastern gates, two soldiers asked them to state their business.

They pulled out a flyer Khym brought home; it promised riches beyond anything they've ever accumulated for themself. The soldiers let them through, and told them where to go. Finding a colorful tent in the middle of the town was easy. The set El to hover above it and be their look out. Inside the tent were four others: the delegate looking over a marked up map, a woman flittering over the map with a pen, and a little man and a large woman off to the side. Kai didn't bother introducing themself, and instead took a seat toward the back where they noticed a little opening where the tent wasn't held down properly. Kai didn't trust places with only one exit, so making one themself was sometimes called for.