Conversation with my Reach. 2021/04/22

Jim appeared beside me, and I told him the coalition was looking for me.
 
Jim had a reach, but doesn't understand it. He tried to give it to me, but I don't think I like it.
I told him to hold onto it.
 
While we were walking away from the city, we came upon the pael.
 
I tried to use the reach to get back to the others, but it sounded awful, and didn't work.
 
We tried to make our way back to the main gate, the queen was able to reestablish her connection with me, and sent guards to help us back into the city.
 
Jim and I returned to the rest of the group, and Jim immediately gave Sala the Reach.
 
I told them about Nima, and the Library.
 
If Sala can use the Reach, he should be able to get us back.
 
But, Sala just wanted to use the reach to get to the citadel.
 
When he tried to use the Reach to go to the Citadel, it didn't work.
 
The queen has a friend who may be able to help us get to the Citadel.
She will contact him, and let us know in the morning, since we never actually got to rest.
 
I woke from a dream, and I saw Cifs. We spoke about the shards. He seemed to think I still had a part of it in me, and that it was unusual that I had not lost my mind.
He wanted me to come find him when I was done here, that my talents are wasted on this group.
 
What do you think about that?
 
We all woke up and ate breakfast with the queen.
 
She told us that the reach from Stonerange can get us to Aliesar, where her friend Mathias, now known as Lord Dark Mantle lived.
 
She said to follow the mist, his manor was where the mist was most dense.
 
The queen requested that we get silver weapons before we go.
 
I asked Sala if werewolves could be killed with energies. They can, so I should be good.
 
The queen got inside my head and gave me some strange advice that sounded helpful, but I couldn't quite understand it.
 
The queen opened the portal to Aliesar, and we went through.
 
The pael looked like Stonerange this time, but stranger.
 
We arrived in a forest and Jim pointed us in the direction of the denser mist.
 
We past many machines of war, terrible to behold, but thankfully still.
 
We hear the wolves all around us, but we continued forward.
 
I thought they would attack, but we arrived at the Dark Mantle Mannor without incident.
 
As we entered the courtyard, we found gardens.
 
The gardens were filled with strange plants.
 
The rest of the courtyard seems in severe disrepair.
 
Sala knocked on the door, and after a pause, it opened.
No one seems to be behind it. We entered, and the inside was in similar disrepair.
 
Sala asked to see Lord Darkmantle. He replied, asking us to hurry up and be brief.
 
He asked us why we were here, and Sala told him about the queen and the attacks from the Citadel.
 
A path was illuminated and we quickly found him, sitting at a table filled with books, reading.
 
We spoke with him for a while, but he seemed more interested in his books.
 
He was not interested in helping us, but eventually said he would give us passage to the breach, but we would have to give him a reach.
 
He wasn't talking about you.
 
Sala refused to give up his reach. He looked at me, and said that maybe I would help.
 
Don't worry, I won't give you up.
 
I offered to take him to the library instead, but he said that he wanted to experiment on a reach, but didn't want to risk his own.
 
He said there was something else we might be able to do for him instead...