The women leave, with a wave and a smile, leaving him with his children, for a time. Unfortunately, most of his children can't really respond; only Ulwei's children are old enough to really respond to anything he does; the rest are still babies. Ulwei's, despite only being a little over two, look more like four year old human children, the 'savage' races growing more quickly than a human would.<br/><br/>In the year since he left, Esmyra's business seems to have exploded, and in a good way. No longer a single, cramped workshop, she now has three buildings strung together, their connecting walls opened up, to create a massive workshop. A half-dozen assistants scurry around, as she directs them on a dozen different projects, the Shadow Stalker he assigned to her standing in a corner, silently overseeing the room, arms folded across its chest, though it immediately looks up, as Draiss enters.