<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/9b/Yulafractae.jpg)</div><br/>It's an odd thing to see a painting of one Lady Aldrieldas made within the last twenty-four years. It's an even stranger thing to see it painted by the great Gilmari dei lai Inrethi, who has been reported missing for the past<em>thirty</em>. How this Lady Malrefesh was able to come into possession of a thing is beyond Yula's understanding, but she suspects it to be some manner of magic. Perhaps she kidnapped them both at some point, or used some manner of divination to give the painter a view of the young woman.  Whatever the case, she continues her exploration, searching for the orb of Malrefesh, the treasure she was to liberate from this tower.  So far, she saw nothing, until a thruming, almost a pulsing sensation, fills the air, and the fox is all but compelled to follow it in an almost trance-like state.  The velvet pouch that protects the thing falls off with naught but a touch, revealing the legendary orb, a beautiful thing of silver and blue in constant motion.  Entranced as she is, she finally snaps out of it when she hears a throat clearing behind her. The kitsune practically jumps as she turns around, and actually bows heavily to the guard.  "Please excuse me, as I meant no harm, and I carry no such foul intentions.  I was investigating the arts and tomes when I felt some manner of pulsing, and I am almost ashamed to admit that I was practically hypnotized by that magical energy. I swear on my grandmother's memory that it was not my intent to steal this away." She assures the guard, taking every effort she can to make her lie believable. "I would gladly rejoin the others in the waiting room."<br/><br/><em>She didn't even <strong>know</strong> her grandmother.</em>