<div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7b/4f/3c/7b4f3c26f7228649021b68ff2b942724.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/16/4a/c0164a0f8dc227b974db92351036194f.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/98/5b/d8985b98a1edf0a3b46e0dbc84993f46.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8f/ba/5a/8fba5a4c0971b00b8a2e5e3008b29c74.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/49/a7/a6/49a7a640987683488893380278c8dbeb.jpg)</div><div align="center"><sup><strong>Captain Ilanaya                                  Male Breeder                                       Songbird                             Growl'Ruk                             Parasha</strong></sup></div><div align="center"><sup><strong>                          4th Champion                              2nd Commoner                                    8th Sorcerer/Celebrity             6th Barbarian                7th Rogue/Assassin</strong></sup></div><hr/>The truth is, Darius has the answer right in front of him.   He has all the pieces to the puzzle.   It has been laid out for him throughout his life.   Each step has led him towards this moment.   He has yet to see it.   To step back and look at each of the different facets of his life.   It starts with his mother.<br/><br/>Just as the woman sitting across from him.  A criminal, an assassin, only knew what has been shown her.  Sitting there with everything she knew being duplicitous.<br/><br/>Parasha internal thoughts,  question what she has said.   Why her step-father would not come out from the monetary.   Why did he send her to find the bastard of his brother.    She rises up and sweeps knicks knacks off the table in frustration.  Shatter a couple of them.<br/><br/>"Damn it, by the gods I am not seeing something."<br/><br/>It is not anger at Darius or Diabelle, but frustration with trying to figure out  the scope of everything.   A nagging something was not right.<br/><br/>"Why is going west to Absalom important?   Why does he not leave the monetary?   Why did the general have a week of mourning declared for the empress your sister?"<br/><br/>Diabelle might have an answer,  in the great desert.   Her people talk about a oasis that is has a pool and it is called 'the pool of reflection past.'   It is said that a person can look into that pool and look in and see events of the past that are connected with them.    Only a hermit,  knows of the exact location who lives to the north.   That he had found the oasis with the pool.   He who had been once of the pathfinder society.<br/><br/>