"I'm still confused." We were making our way on to the ship, the men saluted Telrrax as she came on board.
"Because you are easily confused and can't keep up with simple deception, it makes you incredibly useful as bait, but incredibly useless as anything else.
"That hurts."
"Buck up I could just leave you on the docks to your fate."
"I want to be left behind!"
"Really you want to be left in a country that you are revered as some kind of weird god of vengeance in which you were spotted by a coach driver leaving a mansion with two dead bodies inside?"
"Well when you put it like that." I followed her up to the bridge of the ship where a man in a fancy hat stood at controls.
"Captain we are leaving our quarry got ahead of us and we'll have to make up time, he's in a galleon so subject to winds and currents, but he does have a days jump on us."
"Yes sir we'll leave immeadiately." The man snapped a salute and called out to the crew who made preperations for leaving. Telrrax made her way to a cabin and I followed suit, her flesh creature remained on the bridge.
"I can tell you'll just continue to look stupid and ask questions so I'll just tell you, I'm a magic hunter the guard hired me to kill or capture all of the remaining red hand leadership we can, before you ask no we have not found nor do we expect to find Morley, and yes we know you two have history and yes we know he too is a necromancer much like yourself."
"And the gold collar?"
"Was mine to wear as this particular slimes pet, its one of the reasons I was chosen for this assignment, I have a specific history with this councilman and no love for the rest. The guard realizes magic users are better to hunt magic users at least for now, any further questions."
"No I think that wraps it," The boat lurched and I felt my stomach do the same thing, "Excuse me." I heard Telrrax sigh from her cabin as I ran outside to throw up what little I'd gotten to eat since I'd been freed. I tell you remembering this trip is making me feel sick to my stomach!
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