Stone 33

Chapter 33
We now return to The Adventures of Zedd and Adie, featuring a wise-cracking wizard and a sarcastic sorceress. Our two leads are currently holed up in a nice room at the Ram's Horn inn, which is busy despite it being winter. As the book says, “trade couldn't simply stop because of the season. Merchants, drivers and travelers of every sort filled the inn...”
Except I'm pretty sure trade did stop in the winter in pre-industrial times, or at least slow way, way down. Nothing is growing and people are far more concerned with not freezing to death or dying of starvation to bother with trade, not to mention the enormous amount of extra effort and expense required to travel and great distance through snow and bitter cold. History fail. \~/
Anyway Adie is asking Zedd to cut her arm off. Apparently her skrin-scratch is infected or some such, and Zedd muses that he can't help it with magic – magic being the problem. We eventually learn that Zedd somehow became infected with skrinitis when he healed Adie's physical injury, and now the taint has spread throughout both of their bodies.
Adie tries to think of someone who could help, and eventually remembers “the three sisters” in Nicobarese. Unfortunately, she and Zedd are currently in Penverro, wherever the foggy blue hell that is. Since they were making for Aydindril, it can only be smack in the middle of the Rang-apostrophe-Shada Mountains.
Which means we now have an inn crowded with traders, in the middle of winter, in the mountains. \~/
Zedd declares that they must go to Nicobarese. Adie says that's a bad idea, as the Blood of the Fold are in Nicobarese, and they will remember her. Apparently, the fact that she left Nicobarese “Two kings ago” won't help her, as “Time means nothing to the Blood.” Umm...okay.
We learn that Zedd and Adie are masquerading as a noble couple as Zedd heads out to hire them a coach. To travel in the middle of winter. Through the mountains. To another country.
Oh, and Zedd is wearing a ridiculous outfit, ha ha ha.
Drinks: 2
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