[center][h1][color=ff5000][b]Renar Hagen[/b][/color][/h1][/center]

Renar very carefully continued to keep quiet during the next few exchanges. If Gertie wanted to gamble with her life trying to contract with the Moonlit Queen, she could do so freely as long as any consequences didn't blow back to the rest of the Iron Rose.

As for what happened immediately after...

He resisted the urge to groan out loud with all his willpower. Knowing their luck, they were about to be roped into yet another side objective on this ridiculous, inane quest. Shame on him for thinking they were almost in the clear. Goddesses forbid that they could have one ordained quest without some sort of ancient or dark magic at play. When had the last such mission even been? Bandit King Jeremiah? It had been one moon-damned thing after another past him.

Regardless, Renar continued to maintain dead silence, hoping against hope that whatever was going on with the queen this time had absolutely nothing to do with their party.