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[color=6ecff6]"There's a lot to tell,"[/color] Ethelred begun.  [color=6ecff6]"First, the most pressing matter.  While we were in Redwater Point, the town was attacked by Fomorians and Od vanished in the chaos.  We believe those fiends must have abducted her while we were busy fighting." I wanted us to go after her but...we had a mission."[/color]  With those last few words, a light, visible mist emanated from his helmet as he exhaled.  He sought to remain stoic and professional to Sorcha, but it still upset him.

[color=6ecff6]"As for the mission itself,"[/color] Ethelred continued after taking a deep breath, [color=6ecff6]"We encountered a group of Harzelslack soldiers led by a knight named Sir Lonan, who revealed to us that Elnith had been captured by them after she had battled the beast.  It was at this point that our foe made itself known."[/color]

Ethelred glanced over each of the knights before returning his attention to Sorcha, briefly pausing before continuing his narration.

[color=6ecff6]"It wasn't a Fomorian.  It was a wyvern- a massive black wyvern, spouting fire from its mouth and holes all over its body.  Intelligent, and capable of speaking.  We fought it with Sir Lonan's help, and during the battle, Elias managed to temporarily incapacitate it, but he received a full blast of its power.  All that remained of him was his sword.  Clearly, it wasn't enough to keep him down, although at the time I believed him to be dead."[/color]

Ethelred wondered if Sorcha knew about this power that Elias possessed, to come back from being reduced to nothing.

[color=6ecff6]"At this point Elias and I were separated, so I believe he can describe his side of what happened better than I could.  For my part, Lonan directed me to the border fort where Elnith was being held.  The man was too loyal to Harzelslack law to actually release her, but he was an honorable man who clearly wanted to help me in his own way.  I managed to get Elnith out without raising a fuss, and during this, the fort was attacked by a group of ordinary wyverns.  Suffice to say, they weren't in any position to object to her escape.  Just as we managed to kill the smaller wyverns, Lonan shows up with Elias, naked as the day he was born, with the black wyvern in pursuit."[/color]  Ethelred paused to let Sorcha take this part of the story in.

[color=6ecff6]"The four of us attacked it, and finally managed to slay the creature.  The Harzelslack forces kept the carcass, and Sir Lonan dropped the matter of Elnith."[/color]

Ethelred did not mention the elf that had aided them.  Perhaps it was just because the detail didn't seem important, or perhaps it was his frustration with the elf's attitude towards him and his curse.

[color=6ecff6]"As for the creature's motivation, it claimed to be the herald of a returned king, if I am remembering its words correctly.  Elias may have heard more of it, he battled it longer than I did,"[/color] he stated, glancing towards Reinhardt, expecting him to fill in the gaps.

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