Zal'Kazzir's Difficult Conversation with Mi'Shun

This conversation takes place after Zal'Kazzir discovers his Wife and Son murdered, and after he has made his plans, but before he leaves Sharuun.

Zal'Kazzir

* Dark clouds roil overhead, obscuring the moon, and leaving the grounds of the Ghulvenne estate cloaked in inky shadows. Dimly visible in a stray patch of moonlight, two small, dark figures slowly ascend the staircase of the ancient Badura. Reaching the crown of the narrow tower, the first figure stares north, midnight-eyes searching vainly in the imagined direction of a lost child. Unmoving, his eyes never breaking their hopeless scrying, the man begins to speak, his voice stern, deadly quiet, and with an authoritarian tone.*

"Mi'Shun, thank you for accompanying me so far from your home. I understand that Sarcosa is not a welcoming place in these times, and a welcome made all the darker for the evil tidings that welcome us."

"I will be brief: Do I have your loyalty? Do I have your trust?"

"We may have only recently met, and I wish we had more time to become acquainted, but I need to know these things, and I need to know them now. Speak plainly, and truthfully, for there are no consequences or retaliation for answers I do not like."