"Aside from transforming us, so that we may live without pain... we live quite comfortable lives, and I can't think of anything else we'd need," she replies, calmly, clearly ignorant of the wide world of conveniences that exists.<br/><br/>A few days of working, and he finds Ama's carefully hidden note, amongst a project he'd been working on, when he last saw her; clearly, she'd meant for him to find it sooner, though the note is fairly straightforward, letting him know she's personally investigating some of her missing children, and might be gone for a while.<br/><br/>The next three months pass uneventfully, until he receives word sent to his representative in Dragon's Roost that the Emperor's daughter, Tysinni, has gone missing, and was last seen heading out to one of the nearby villages, about three days prior. Only one member of her guard managed to escape alive, barely surviving three arrow wounds, and having to patch himself up and walk almost twenty miles to the nearest village, to get a message out. It seems they were overrun by a massive group of bandits, though something in the note, which was passed to the general public, seems to indicate that there's more to it than just that.