Kessa and her sister (and whoever watched over them, no doubt) had left before he'd woken. Once a solitary mystery, the herb-witch was now an enigma with companions. If she doesn't like me, why would she let her sister proposition me? And why come on patrol a second time? Iathor forbore to groan ...
"Iathor! Everyone's all right," she said, with a grasp of important details that would've sent his heart racing if he didn't already know. "There was some matter with Bynae's family, and they went by the Millwell warehouses of all places, and some wretched bunch of savages tried to rob them! Dayn...