Re: Dragonborn Encounter - Stephen and open!
"My friend..." she started. "He's cursed. I think he's always been cursed. I've never met anyone like him before."
Stevie kept her hands visible and in front of her. There were no weapons that she reached for or spell components she tried to open up in order to cast. Her eyes kept darting to different parts of the great room, as though trying to respectfully make eye contact but never being sure what direction to look.
"He's a kenku. He can talk, and he's intelligent, but the only words he can say are the ones he hears. He doesn't have the ability to speak with his own voice, or choose his own words."
Stevie turned in a circle but still could not see the source of the voice. What if it wasn't a warlock in the fortress as she'd been lead to believe but something much worse?
"...I just want to help him, but I don't know what to do. Where should we go? Who do you think would have an answer?"