Quick clarification, Drusilia used her hand to get the tattooed and scared piece of cheek. She thrust her hand into the bandit's mouth and tore lose a piece.<br/><br/>Aren, you've never seen this kind of tattooing on raiders coming over the mountains. It uses some arcane iconography of the Old One, not the more commonly thuggish grinning skulls you've typically encountered. And the sheer coverage of ink and the inclusion of ritual scarring outstrips your experience as well. But as soon as Aria and Victoriana mention it, you get the connections.<br/><br/>For Aria, unless you want her sword to ride on your quest, I'm going to have her ride back to the keep. Victoriana can either have offered the<em>mount </em>spell to someone else or we can rule she didn't cast it.