"Well, he didn't tell me," Tina said. "He just knew something about it, especially when it kept popping up in my research. He had some notes, but I didn't have a chance to look through them."<br/><br/>The group was large enough that, while the carpet helped them navigate and spot landmarks, they still had to physically move the large group though the swamplands.<br/><br/>One morning, early in Arodus, shortly after the first group returned from their expedition with few issues, he'd awaken at two in the morning, to find Nyrissa - the half-elf, not the fey - standing over him. It's mildly disorienting for a moment, before he'd notice that her eyes, normally elf-like, were a brilliant, emerald-like green.<br/><br/>"You are persistent," she said, in a cold, flat voice. "You question, and you struggle, and you build, but you are nothing more than insects, constructing a fortress of sand, against the tide."