Mariula made a small gesture of appreciation that she was mentioned as an authority on house Cynis. She was, but on questions of occult nature and it wasn't something that on which she liked to enlighten people. She uncovered her wooden hand and made with its index finger three scratches on the table in front of her.<br/>"Kaiser, leave Ihorangi to get whatever documents he wants for the ship, just don't be fooled to follow what is written there. An enemy won't make this mistake... The house is led by three sisters of which three different family trees stem. While powerful in the roots, they are weak at the leaves. Unfortunately for us, Cynis Mond is not one of them. I don't know his powers, but his knowledge and assets make him dangerous. This man will hardly resort to mundane methods of travel, so hoping that he will be still in the region when someone last saw him weeks ago is at best - naive."<br/><br/>The witch threw a questioning look to the rest of the people. Too much pose from this one, too much enthusiasm from that one... And a grossly misplaced elemental.<br/>"You have better chance denting the Cynis by hitting their ships. Slaves are easy to find and fairly useless, but expensive. However, I'm not going to discuss this, until a certain someone goes for a walk." Mariula's thorn-like finger pointed at the elemental. She has left hers to their tasks, with Thirty three and the sobeksis mixing saltpeter with sulfur and the sweet crystals of Air into essence-enhanced mist-calling substance, Urian - reading the stars and her bodyguard - outside, there was obviously no reason for the flame duck to stay.<br/>"It doesn't take strong understanding of sorcery to grasp that if she gets called, she will spell out everything that she had witnessed, including your deepest secrets, without even offering resistance."