Skippy had intended on answering the dwarf, his tall tale of being attacked by an eagle Anithrope had suddenly vanished from thought. He opened his mouth to speak, but then turned to the starboard side of the ship as he noticed something gleam in the sunlight. Curious, he forgot all about the dwarf and his proposal and went over to the rail of the ship. As carefully as he could, Skippy reached into the water and plucked out the spherical object. It was a black ball of some kind, trimmed with gold in the middle.<br/><br/>He turned back to the ship, intending to ask someone if it belonged to them, but somehow, it slipped into one of his many pockets. As he turned his attention back to the others on the ship, he thought he caught a glimpse of a small fire. When Skippy turned to it, he only saw a purple-haired woman talking with some man.<br/><br/>"Land Ho!" called the person in the Crow's Nest above. The deck of the ship then became a flurry of activity as sailors readied to make port.<br/><br/>~~~~~~~<br/><br/><span style="color: #00BF40">The woman glanced up and noticed someone else walk in. After buying some food he moved to sit down in a darkened corner of the common room. She watched him for a long moment out of the corner of her slanted eyes so he would think she was staring straight ahead at the wall. When he removed the hood of his cloak, the woman couldn't help but gasp and she quickly put her head down on the table and wrapped her arms around her hooded head.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Don't notice me!</span> She chanted the short sentence again and again in her head, frantically worried that the guy was on of the Elven guards. She hadn't even noticed that another person was also in the inn, but now she was too worried to care.</span><br/><br/>~~~~~~~<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF0000">Ophelia used her mirror to scry again, this time, she found the group of demons that had been charged with finding the item. The human watched the boat of demons for a long moment. Then, Viktor brought in a person with telepathy, and using the mirror to find their minds, the telepathic servant relayed the Viktor's angry rant of a message.<br/><br/>Once finished, the demons scurried to turn the boat around and head to the nearest Almerkian port city, where Ophelia thought that was where the sacred item was now headed.</span>