[<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/70/Bri8_ava_zps8cf447f8.jpg)</div><strong>Ran Fletcher</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YDWtf37GCiBkCfEdON2_YdGI5Gob09laqC0P1SU0fmg/edit)<br/><br/>The apparent prophecy bit had Ran shook up, but they hadn't gone far before she realized something she'd missed on account of that moment of jitters.  Taking both bow and arrow in one hand, she reached out and caught the warlock's hand with her right.  She gave the other girl a smile then explained, "Welcome back to us, Miranda.<br/><br/>“Were you still awake when these others came to join us?  I think you were.  Aerenwyn suggested we hurry up to see the Town Council and offer our service, so we did.  Dering was an old prune about it, of course.  He was inexcusably rude, especially to our foreign friends.<br/><br/>“Aerenwyn told us some strange things about herself.  She's from...  Somewhere else.  Something's wrong with the clergy of Sehanine, we can't trust them, including her.   The second part makes even less sense than the first, right?<br/><br/>“We're on our way to  Melford now.  We hope to find out the nature of the troubles there.  If we can take care of whatever is besieging Melford, it'll take longer to get to our home, and buy us time to get to the source of it.<br/><br/>“Aerenwyn thinks whatever this is is a danger to all of Oerth, and that we have a real chance of doing something about it.”<br/><br/>The young barbarian chewed on her lower lip nervously.  She liked the situation even less when she tried to recount it.<br/><br/>“Did I miss anything?” she asked the others.