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<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">[After asking for volunteers to chase Garr Arawn will speak in private with the PC's and Navigator Hammerhand]</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> “Right now most seem focused on the Smith clan as the purpetrators of Tiren’s death, possibly Poorda’s as well. But there’s something else we should discuss before aiming
all our sights in that direction – Tiren and Z’leyra’s past. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Although I’m leaning towards the Smiths’ having something to do with Poorda’s death I’m not sure that they’re responsible for Tiren’s, at least not fully if at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> When Tiren was killed Z’leyra’s double threw notes into the fire and failed to take anything. The Smiths are metal-crafters, just like Tiren, and whatever they might have
thought of Tiren’s metal-craft it would have made sense that they would have grabbed his notes. For even if they thought Tiren’s metal-work was truly inferior they would have attempted to glean anything they could from his notes in hopes of finding something
useful to add to their own metal-craft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> With the notes destroyed I think the attack was done to cover something up. Perhaps something like making sure his metallurgical knowledge, Kameran knowledge, never falls
into other peoples hands. I know very little of that land, only what Z’leyra has shared over campires and pulled from books, but I recall that the Kameri guard this knowledge and consider it sacred. If so it would make sense that they would go to great lengths
to protect something so sacred and precious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> And though I’d prefer not to think this, if a shape-shifter, illusionist or an enchanted Z’leyra isn’t to blame then I think we need to consider a suspect inadvertantly
blurted out by Martin Smith – a twin, Z’leyra’s twin, Z’layha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> If she felt abandoned she might have harbored resentment all these years for being passed over by her father. But even if she wasn’t angry with him, as a shaman it would
be her duty to protect sacred knowledge, regardless of the cost. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> As has been said by other forces – there comes a point where one must prioritize their loyalties, their duties and responsibilites.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> He looked to Z’leyra’s uncle, Navigator Hammerhand, the alfar recalling the man’s reaction to certain parts of Z’leyra’s story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> “I have a feeling you know more to Tiren’s story than Z’leyra does, or was at least willing to share or believe. What can you tell us?”</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The druid’s thoughts make Ha’Kell think a bit more about the Smiths, their ambitions, and the murder of Tiren. Those motives and actions
all make sense to him. If the Smith’s had a direct connection to Tiren’s murder, why not steal his work? Looking more into a possible twin, that could be the key for the murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Even though the Smiths are deplorable and Kell doesn’t like them, he is following Arawn’s line of thinking. There is the current action
of them taking land, and then there is Tiren’s murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Replying to Arawn, “That all makes perfect sense. Perhaps you are correct in all of this. The Smiths, while having something going now,
maybe had nothing to do with Tiren’s murder. The Kameri will definitely kill to protect their secrets.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Asking for all to hear, he turns to Z’Leyra, “Was your twin an identical twin? What else do we know of your twin?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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