<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/98/5b/d8985b98a1edf0a3b46e0dbc84993f46.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/9e/7b/c4/9e7bc4f627de4b3d9ee11374dca660db.jpg)<strong></strong></div><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/11/ff/f8/11fff896403dc7855fea201c8d88d00b.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/8a/e6/fa8ae6cc4f30eecc8312ea4430a318d7.jpg)</div><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><strong>Songbird</strong></div></div><div class="floatleft"><div align="center"><strong>Hawk</strong></div></div><div align="center"><strong>Sergeant Mullhaja                                                         Takxi</strong></div><hr/>The kobold Takxi gets a horrified expression that comes over her facial features.  Then a look of anger flashes.  As her voice raises with indignation.<strong>"I am a member of the Pathfinder society.  We protect the paths between nations,  who rules such nations does not fall under our concerns.  If he Padhe empire were to change hands,  as long as free travel is protected, it matters not who rules.  That is a nation's internal politics and not the concern of the pathfinder society.  Unless that nation poses a threat to the free trade between nations."</strong><br/><br/>The good news is the current usurper seems not to know.   Or with the information he doesn't see the bounty is low still even at the egress bounty of one hundred gold, low.   They're also asking by his trade name as a bounty hunter, the Hellhound.   Which meant they have a description of him.   The sister Irraki has kept it close to the vest.   The caravan has not reached the city.  While the response from Takxi suggests that on the whole those on the trails with the caravans, the pathfinder society caravan guards would not be a problem.  But there can always be another like Keli.<br/><br/>Songbird turns green when she hears the outburst by the kobold female.  Followed by the message sent to her by her master.  It is fear that her master is thinking of going back to Padhe,  she fears going back to that life.  She has accepted her role now and sees death and being shackled to a position she did not want.   She looks at him again with the dawning realization that he could be her half brother.<br/><br/>Yet both Darius and Songbird will remember the vivid dreams each have had.  The dream of Darius sitting on the throne and her in position of pet at his feet.   It is what stops her from revealing she is his half sister, the<del>empress</del>.  Even now, she still cannot say that, even in her mind.  Fate has determined he is to rule,  and she is good with that.   She has accepted her role as a concubine.   It is also apparent she is part of this plan.   Right then and there, she decides to keep this knowledge to herself.<br/><br/>She is not sure if his spell is two-way.  But she concentrates to project her thought back to Darius.  Mindspeech; "Master, then you must find them, you have a destiny and a empire."  Of course, not knowing the spell he might be greeted with silence instead of that thought.<br/><br/>