Sorrow, Distractions, and Bar Fights

Ambryn walks in to the hospital ward. Many know her by now, they know to bow, to wave, to smile, and mostly to not get in her way. She purposefully walks through the halls, eventually walks in to a large room. On the bed lay Minion, covered in bandages, tended to by a handful of nurses. Monitoring him, taking care of him, praying for him. Ambryn does her own 'ritual' and places her hand on his head. Willing him to get better. After a few moments, she looks at the nurses and says, 'Let me know if anything, ANYTHING changes.'

Thargrin walks into the cheapest bar he knows. Money has been hard to come by, as the ship is repaired. Thomas has given him money for his stay in the port, that money will be used to drink. If he is to drink, why not make it last longer at the cheapest place he knows. As he looks around, he notices a dwarf drinking in the corner. As he approaches he notices on the ground next to the dwarf, is a human passed out with a mug in his hand. Every few times the dwarf takes a sip from his mug, he kicks the human and laughs. Thargin sits down and asks 'What are you drinking?' The dwarf laughs and makes an offhand comment about elves and their weak stomach. As the barmaid walks up, Thargrin points at the dwarf, 'I'll have what he is having!' and puts the purse of cogs on the table. The barmaid eyes light up, as she has never seen someone pay that much before. She quickly walks back to get a mug, quickly walking away, as Thargrin and the dwarf begin to see how fast each can drink.

Kainlan decides to confront Jack about what happen. Slick decides he will go along, there might be some killing involved. As they approach the warehouse, the guards stand up to see who it is, once they notice the pair, one leans over to the door and knocks once. After a few moments, Jack comes out, looking tired and not having slept in many days. He beckons them to follow. Back in his room he sits down, looking at Kainlan he sighs. 'We have much to talk about.' The next few hours pass as Jack tells Kainlan about his brother. How he found him looking for a job after getting kicked off a ship. Offered him shelter for his services. Working his way up, taking care of business, selling, buying, trading. Jack tells how his brother had a gift with the word, making anyone open up even if they didn't want to. He also tells Kainlan about how his brother asked one day to join a sailing ship, for as much as he enjoyed the island and was good at it, he wanted to see the sky. Afterwards, Jack heard stories, stories that began to sound suspicious  Looking in to things, Jack realized that maybe letting his brother join the crew of Gladwing was a bad idea, especially since Gladwing it appears has recently fell in with another man, whose description was identical to the one of the person who confronted them on the docks. Jack lets Kainlan know that if there is anything he can do to help, he can come and ask, and he will endeavor to as best as possible.

Back at the ship, Ambryn is told the Shae is missing and so is the elf. Mumbling that a gods work is never done she heads out to find the two. After a few hours and checking the local establishments, as she nears one in a darker part of the city, a man comes flying out the window. Ambryn quickly runs over, and much to her surprise there stands Shae fighting with a dwarven girl, surrounded by many others, fighting, or holding back, the bartender trying to get some semblance of order restored to his bar. As Ambryn is grasping the situation, Shae notices her and focuses on her for a second, this allows the dwarf to get a clean hit, felling Shae to the ground. Ambryn jumps in with protective rage attacking anyone who got in her way towards the dwarf and protecting Shae. As the two fight it out and go back and forth, Ambryn finally lays a finishing hit knocking the dwarf out. She leans over Shae and gently picks her up to take her back to the ship. As she is walking out she places a pouch of cogs on the bar for the bartender, she looks at the bartender and nods to the dwarf, 'Let her know if she wants another round or a job she can find us at The Enlightened.' The bartender nods, wild eyed at what has happened this night at his establishment.

Kainlan and Slick notice Ambryn and Shae coming over to the ship, the quickly come over and help get Shae on board. Ambryn asks if they have seen the elf, to which both respond with a negative. Ambryn mumbles about how a gods work is never done and beings to head out followed by Slick and Kainlan. With the help of Kainlan, they find out quickly where Thargrin has gone and make their way there. As they enter, the scene in front of them causes them to stop for a second. Thargrin lay in the back of the bar, wet and smelling of ale, a few bruises on his face of what appears to be a mug, as a handful of them lay around him in different states of broken. Ambryn walks over and grabs him which allows Thargrin to awaken and grumble, he tries to fight off Ambryn while attempting to take a sip of his mug.

 As the group walks back in the streets, Ambryn gets irritated by the continuous fidgeting of Thargrin she eventually hits him hard across the head and knocks him out. Slick quickly walks over and kicks Thargrin as well, letting out frustration he has been feeling towards the elf since they first met. With Thargrin knocked out, the group makes quicker pace, when suddenly Slick stops as the alleyways have no sound at all. As they scan around, and arrow flies towards Ambryn barely missing her head and embedding in to the ground next to her. Slick and Kainlan pull out there weapons in time to tackle the ambush, as Ambryn slaps Thargrin awake yelling 'Ambush!' The fight goes by quickly, and Thargrin slowly regains his senses after the fight, complaining about the throbbing in his head being the worst he's had, and confused at the pain in his ribs. They decide to go back to the ship to see what their next move will be.