Galus clicks his tongue. "I called in a few favors from people that owed me, mostly for money or quick supplies, and hired some unique individuals, but it's otherwise all been the work of me and my own."<br/><br/>And if Thunder asks, she gets the list of those unique individuals. A dragon blood of unknown lineage and affiliation known as the Cinnabar Lion who had helped speed up the trip, the one that helped most directly with getting back Preus Pater was a strange person that called himself Sryng the Swift, and one of the fair folk that helped for its own inscrutable reasons. It gave no name, but was tall and thin, pale as sea-foam, and had feathers growing along the back and arms.