Who: Lucressia and Lillie When: Parvulis Where: Vigil's Keep Rating: TBA Summary: It's been a long few months.
Lucressia had returned to Vigil's Keep with Conlan, some few days after the rest of the party that had undertaken the raid on the ancient ruin. She had settled, almost immediately, back into her routine, wagon by day, taverns by night, buying and selling in turn. She had penned a complex letter--encoded, of course, in one of the better Crow ciphers she knew--and sent it to Ignacio, from where it would go on to the Masters of the House of Crows, or perhaps whomever had paid for her to embed herself with the Wardens (and, presumably, continued to pay, for she had not been unceremoniously withdrawn upon her return to Amaranthine). It did not include the full depth of what had happened on their journey, but it reported on the collapse of the Tower, neutrally, not claiming responsibility or placing blame but delivering facts. As she had been on the scene at Conlan's rescue attempt, she was possessed of many facts.
She believed their actions underground had caused the collapse, of course, but she was not quite ready to sell that knowledge to an unknown buyer. The Crows might even understand, for they had taught her to keep and use every possible advantage. They simply had not taught her to apply this maxim when it might disadvantage them. But for the moment, well, they didn't know what they didn't know.
Her old routine took over very quickly, but it was not many days past her return when she encountered Lillie. Lu was rather half-heartedly hawking goods from her wagon, farm products picked up on the long road back to Amaranthine, when she saw the familiar face moving through the sparse midday crowd. Lu raised a hand; waved; produced something from one of the flaps in her wagon. A bundle of dried greens--herbs of some sort or another. "I came by these on the road," she called out, raising the bundle. "If you care to have a look."
For all it had been long obvious to the Wardens and their fighting companions that Lucressia was no mere merchant, she still played the part, it seemed.