Essentia Animus

13-Missing Connection

Fhyernz had returned back to the little building the three of them called home, him and his two other companions. Khyzae once used to call this place home as well, a home away from home, and had been expected that very night.

"By the divine, just how incompetant are you? I don't know what has me pissed off more, the fact that you left her to the street, or that you lost her on a train. Of course, the woman is brilliant, she would be far and all capable of taking care of herself, but I do recall telling you to keep her safe. While I expect she will have no problems finding her way here, this isn't exactly what I would call 'keeping her safe'." Liyuzhe was not at all happy. After hearing that her childhood friend would be making a return, she had gotten really excited at the opportunity to reconnect, share updates about how things have been over the past year. She was honestly excited to hear too about any progress with Khyzae's little project with the moon. Suffering these additional delays was only making her mood worse.

"Actually, I'm not so certain she'll be able to find this place as easily as in the past. I couldn't get any details from her, but it seems like her moon venture was something of a failure. It seems this caused its own problems, one of which being a touch of amnesia. Khyzae still hasn't recovered all of her memories, returning to Windvale as if she had never been here before. I still don't have a full account of just how bad the amnesia is but.. it seems pretty bad." Fhyerns was regretting everything after the wood transaction, realizing that things were basically a constant chain of his own screw-ups in the rush after that. Liyuzhe was only coming to terms with how bad the situation was, which did nothing good for her current mood.

"Liyuzhe, should I start searching the town? You know I'm way better at covering ground than this moron here." "Ieqyisa, no, while I feel your abilities are far more dependable than Fhyernz here, I think taking drastic action wouldn't be for the best. We have no idea where she would have left the train, where she might have gone, but even with amnesia I know she would have still sought shelter. Having funds and a couple of capable companions would be more than enough for her to take care of herself, while leaving us with the entire city to cover. You scouring the city in depth so much would cause longer term problems. While I hate to say it, we will still need to be patient. I'll try to setup a more.. discreet search for her, something that won't raise as much attention." Ieqyisa frowned at the two humans in her company, disappointed by Liyuzhe turning her down. Ieqyisa was the only one who thus far was never even given the opportunity to even speak with Khyzae, not even by Cell. It was sounding like she was instead being sent back to her records, kept out of the loop. Still, this news about amnesia was alarming, it implied Khyzae might have forgotten so much of the things they had shared in the past. If the others were going to bring her back, she would instead devote the time to figuring out a good way to either restore Khyzae's memories, or at least prepare a quick study of all of the essentials. She wandered off to get back to work, her mind still completely distracted by the recent events.

Fhyernz knew this was him being dropped from the entire process, Liyuzhe taking everything into her own hands. No one complaining about his departure wasn't even enough to set his mind at ease, clearly this just implied that Liyuzhe felt too otherwise distracted to come up with any immediate consequences and that he would have to look forward to remedial measures at a later time. Liyuzhe in truth understood that Fhyernz was probably getting tired, and blamed herself for not having thought to send anyone to pick up their guests. By the details he had provided, it had been quite a long and arduous day, being the only one to shoulder this entire burden was not the smartest of action on her part. He had even been responsible enough to have called everything in. Liyuzhe could only hope that Fhyernz was capable of a well deserved rest so that he could continue to contribute in the morning.

"Hey, yeah, sorry for the late night call. Yeah.. no, not really. Look, so, I've came across some pretty interesting tidbits of information. Seems there are these girls that came in from the boonies, totally amatures to the city and everything, but really put on quite the show. Seems the girls are capable of some serious craftsmanship. If the news got wind of the details, I could totally see so many local businesses paying handsomely for a decent referral. .. I know, aren't I such a generous woman? It helps because it seems one of my own is working with them, dropped completely off the radar otherwise. No, I know how getting such information would cost myself a pretty penny, but asking for you to share some information in return would cost far less. Could you remind her what she's left behind with one of my spare.. business cards? Just tell her that her childhood friend still misses her. Yes, I understand you're going to sell all of this information to anyone whos got the money for it. Thank you, you too." Liyuzhe hung up with a sigh. This sort of action was still going to draw some attention, but it wasn't nearly as much of a problem as some of the alternatives. Liyuzhe had always felt much more comfortable keeping to the shadows, after all.