Irakai's Story

Clarice Akakios shook her head slowly before she pulled the hood of her cloak down around her shoulders. "I'm not one for talking about my past with strangers. The less people know about me the better."

"I see then, so i suppose you might not want me traveling with you then." she says with a sigh, looking around the old cave. "I suppose i could wait for another traveler. I can't travel in the sunlight, you see..."

"It will be nightfall in an hour or two," Clarice replied. "I came in here because I thought there was already a camp set up by other travelers. I was going to spend the night here."

She nods. "I know. But still. I travel at night most of the time. I can only move with another light worlder during the day, by hiding in their shadow." she says, looking into the mirror and rubbing it with her hair hand to wipe a smudge off

Clarice Akakios sighed exasperatedly. She should have known something like this would happen. Silently she berated herself for being oblivious to what was going on around her.

"You can travel with me until we find you someone else to haunt," she said. "What is your name, shadow imp?"

"My name is Irakai. If you require to stay here for the night, I can oblige you. It wouldn't be much of a hassle to me to not travel at night." she says, jumping down to the ground. She might have been a third of Clarice's height, being an imp like she was. "I could even help you find food if you need."

The entrance of the cave echoed with the scrabbling of boots and the screeching of a scavenger bird. The cawing continued until it ended abruptly with a loud snap, the lights had attracted someone else to the camp. The figure at the entrance cast his bloodshot eyes into the cave and snapped a fireball to life in his right hand.

The bones hadn't warned him of this, was there another here?

"Hail." Sayyid shouted into the cave. The mage wasn't sure how a man carrying a dead vulture in one hand and a magic spell in the other would go down with whoever was in the cave, but hopefully they didn't take him as hostile.