Ama smiles, and gives him a quick kiss. "Next time you think about doing something stupidly heroic, find a band of adventurers to do it instead. It's actually quite an entertaining distraction... I have a small band that's getting a bit cocky, as they explore an ancient, buried temple. If they stay that cocky, they're going to get killed, so I'm drawing the attention of one of the inhabitants, to make sure they take things a little more cautiously, and don't walk straight into the very nasty trap, just a few rooms ahead," she says, with a wicked grin.<br/><br/>Another year passes, fairly uneventfully, though whenever Draiss is outside his domain, he gets an unsettling feeling of someone watching him, an itching on the back of his neck, even though none of his senses ever reveal anything. One day, however, Nadriina approaches him, with some interesting news. "It seems some of our exploration has revealed something of interest... while we haven't pinpointed his location in the Astral, I think we've found another trap, laid out by that blackguard that kidnapped you, over a decade ago."