<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b3/Alyssa.jpg)</div><strong>Alyssa</strong>(http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=91076)<br/><hr/>Alyssa turned to Al'Rhayel and squatted down in front of her so they were eye level.  She reached out to the druidess and just touched her arm.  "I don't think so." she responded.  "If it was Tenebrax, I don't think he would have simply vanished.  Plus, if this mage is as powerful as Thalya thinks he is, then there's a good chance the dark army isn't even on this island.  Think about it this way.  We're trespassing.  Maybe the mage doesn't like that.  Maybe he just wanted to make sure we didn't do something foolish so he took a hostage.  I say we go to him, ask his aid, pay any penalty he demands for trespassing to get Norton back, and then we go on our way, with or without his help.  And you are the best person here to get us there the quickest and the safest."<br/><br/>She then stood up and turned back to Thalya.  "I agree.  And to be safe, we should approach as nonthreateningly as we can.  Send a small group, just the three of us, and we peacebind our weapons when we get to the base of the tower.  We don't want to cause any more hostility than we have to."  Plus she really didn't want to leave Al'Rhayel with the sailors after the veiled threat.