[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/ZTCHqAC.png[/img][/center][hr][hr]At first, Kaureerah had tried to remember the names. She had tried to connect with the people, but there were too many, there was not enough time to get to know them, and - to her great embarrassment - she could not pronounce most of them anyhow. It was all government pageantry, and she was ashamed to admit that she had checked out before long. She'd noticed something, though, as she'd stood there waiting, and it had been cast into stark relief when Wu Long had used magic to leap atop his horse before departing: Nobody was using magic, or at least very few. It had taken some time to adjust as she'd first come to human lands - they seemed to divide class by magic use and there was just so much less among them than there was among eeaiko - but this was unusual, even by human standards. [color=DEB887][i]And now we have a second mystery to solve...[/i][/color] As Blossom and Kai led them through the streets of the ReTanese capital, Kaureerah found herself unable to maintain any sort of paranoia level and she soon succumbed to the sights and sounds of an idyllic fall evening in this strange land. She was, to be certain, an object of immense curiosity, but less of one than she'd imagined, in some ways. Many of the people living here had seen 'sea people' ([i]Hǎi rén[/i]) before, but had never seen an Easterner. [color=DEB887][i]Guess who's not the only freak in the sideshow,[/i][/color] she thought amusedly to herself. Eventually, she began to strum at her guitar when a melody took her and it was all so idyllic until... They stopped. Then, Kai was issuing orders to his soldiers and they were rushing off in the direction of where Kaureerah was [i]sure[/i] she'd detected some chemical and binding magic. She'd been scanning passively, partly to help her solve her earlier mystery and partly for information. There was kinetic now, as well. [color=DEB887][i]Kinetic because they're running.[/i][/color] Whatever it was, it was soon out of her sensing range, and she was tempted to put up an illusion and follow. Instead, Kaureerah searched her surroundings for landmarks, noted what she could, and began forming a plan... [hr][hr]