Honey Nexori

## Physical Description

Honey Nexori, a yellow tiefling with a nose for a story. With her honey colored hair at full poofiness, she stands at a decent 5'8", but when the situation gets damp, she's known to lose a few inches. Her clothing almost always appropriately fits the investigative journalist attire: travel boots, dark colored trousers, a button-up that is just so happens to be missing a few at the top, and a trench coat that stops above the ankles. Her satchel always carries the journalist essentials: an inkwell, quill, her trusty journal, a mysterious horn, lock picks in a hidden pocket, and various other tools a lady just cannot go without. Last but not at all least, her trusty duck, Lucy. Resting in the poofiness of her hair is a small duckling, acting as they eyes on the back of her head and a distraction when the going gets tough.

> "Taking the fights that nobody else can or nobody else will."
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## Growing Up in Whitewall

Honey was born during the blooming months of spring on the first day of Estrannas in a small home in the lower class residential area of Whitewall. Being an only child, Honey was well loved by her mother, Maple Nexori and her father, Aspen Nexori. She was literally a bright child, always with a large smile and a big heart. The young tiefling was quick to make friends with the kids in the surrounding houses, but Honey was too good at getting into trouble. She would always stay out too late, making hers and other parents worry for their children, stray too far from home, and getting into places where she should not be. On several occasions, Honey was brought home by the Whitewall guard for sneaking into buildings "just to see what was inside". To the small child, a locked door meant secrets, and secrets were fascinating to her. This is not something Honey would grow out of. However, she would refine it, and part of that refinement came from her childhood half-orc friend, Keturi Hanuz. Keturi, being the child of two rogues in the thieves guild, was slowly picking up on their parents profession. At first, it wasn't much. Keturi would learn a word in thieves cant and then proceed to excitedly tell Honey who then would share a secret. It was a harmless game between two friends, and it eventually grew into the two teaching and practicing with each other on how to be rogues. This is how Honey spent every summer and Nezerlin's Ward breaks, and the two are still close friends to this day.

With her mother running a grocery store in the market district and her father running a farm outside the city walls, Honey was enrolled in Whitewall Elementary to keep her safe while they were away from the house. The school itself was oddly lacking in resources for being located in Whitewall, but that does not matter to a child who finally gets to make friends outside of her neighborhood. There Honey learned the basics of schooling such as sciences and the common language, but she excelled in her writing classes. She even made two close friends while in school. One was a half-elf boy by the name of Elneak Marfinas and a human friend whose name is Lilac Galanys. The three were almost inseparable in their classes growing up, and, even to this day, they meet monthly for dinner and a game night.

The private elementary Honey attended was located on the edge of the official and the lower class district and funded by the community through donors and the state through grants. The school was not perfect. There were desks and textbooks that seemed to be falling apart, lack of science and art equipment, and other things such as that that made learning more challenging, but not impossible. The teachers made do with what they had, and the children did not know anything different. Honey, being the overly curious child that she was, would get into trouble either for being where she shouldn't be or for asking slightly invasive questions as curious children tend to do. This meant she would find herself in the tabaxi headmaster's, Jiro Kaassux, office where she would receive a lecture about applying herself more in topics other than writing and doing her best to be a model student before being sent on her way. One day, during her last year at her primary school, Honey was sent to the headmaster's office for bringing lock picks given to her by Keturi to school to show off. It was a busy day for Jiro Kaassux, and he had to attend a meeting with the school's benefactors. While in that meeting, Honey was told by other school attendants to wait in Kaassux's office for his meeting to be over. This, Honey thought, was a perfect opportunity to search the office to find anything interesting before she graduated that year. This was a perfect idea where nothing could go wrong. What were they going to do? Scold her some more? Pulling hidden lock picks out of her hair, she began investigating the room, being careful not to be heard. Her summer practices with Keturi were paying off as no one notice her rifling through the desk and file cabinets. File after file, Honey was just finding boring school files on students, teachers, and other school related paperwork. Just as she was about to give up her search, she noticed a hidden compartment in Kaassux's desk. Outside the office, she could hear talking from the staff and Kaassux and knew she did not have time to read the documents. So instead she slipped them into her bag (fully intending to put it back later), put everything back the way it was, and sat down for the lecture Kaassux was sure to give.

It was not until she got home that she sat down to look through the secret files. At first, it looked like nothing but math and gibberish to Honey, but then she noticed numbers not adding up right. That's when she decided to seek out help from her friends. Keturi was equally as baffled as Honey was at math, but it was Elneak and Lilac who were able to read and understand the files Honey had stolen, and it was huge! At least to thirteen-year-olds. According to her two friends, Jiro Kaassux had been embezzling school funds into his own pockets. He had taken nearly 75,000 gp, and Honey knew immediately she had to reveal this information! However, it was a question of when, not if, she would do it.

The next school day she attended, Honey was brought to Kaassux's office once again, but this time to be accused of stealing school funds. In the office accusing her was only Jiro Kaassux and one Whitewall guard. Seeing the guard there, Honey decided to reveal what she knew about Kaassux's crime of embezzling school funds, but it did not give the result Honey expected. The guard drew his sword, but instead of turned to Kaassux, he turned towards Honey instead. Before anything could happen, Honey used her first spell, one she hadn't been able to cast until now. In a panic she splayed her hands infront of her and webs shot out from her finger tips, stopping Kaassux and the "guard" in their tracks. Honey took this moment to gather her things and run out of the school. Not wanting to go home, Honey weaved through the streets of Whitewall until she reached the craftsman district. Far from home, Honey wandered around the streets with nothing but her thoughts and the noise of a busy district. She let her feet carry her from one street to the next until she was standing before the WhiteWall Word. Below the WWW sign read, "Nothing But The Truth". Seeing no better options, she headed inside to find place to be dead. Those who were in the building seemed to be taking a nap or staring off into space. However, there was one person who seemed to have any energy in them, and this person was the one and only to approach the thirteen year old standing in the middle of the doorway. Ezra Woods was kind and did not turn Honey away when, for a second time today, she decided to tell everything she knew. After showing them the evidence, Honey was told that if she needed somewhere to stay, the WWW was open all day and all night. That one night was enough for Ezra to draft up they story and letting Honey proof read it. The next morning, it went out to print.

Taking a copy of the story home, Honey was immediately embraced by her parents upon walking into her home. The school had told them Honey had gone missing during the school day without a trace. They were teary eyed and overjoyed that Honey had made it home, and Honey showed them the WWW article and let them know everything Honey has been up to. She was grounded. And her parents hoped that after that dangerous experience, Honey would give up her dangerous curiosity. However, that very day, Kaassux and his hired bodyguard were arrest and their fortunes forfeited. The school shut down for a few days before starting up again with a new headmaster. Immediately life became better for the students, and the school had an incredible amount of funds to dedicate to the students. Filled with pride, Honey's curiosity did not die. All it did was fan the fire which would create one of Whitewall's greatest journalists.

## Finding Lucy

It was about two years after graduating from school that Honey learned the spell 'Find Familiar'. It wasn't a difficult spell, but when the scroll was handed to her on her fifteenth birthday, she was ecstatic. Ever since she heard about familiars and the bonds they create with their wizards, Honey wanted to learn the spell. After her party ended and Keturi, Elneak, and Lilac went home, Honey settled down in her room to cast the spell. Honey spent the first hour just deciding what she wanted her familiar to appear as. Her parents had given her a small book of popular familiars wizards tend to choose, and for the first hour, she couldn't decide between an owl or a snake. Eventually, she finally settled on her familiar appearing as an owl. After taking the hour to cast her spell, sitting before her was an owl tapping about the room. Honey, being an over-enthusiastic fifteen year old, excitedly introduced herself to her familiar and spooked her! The owl jumped and scurried under the bed. The voice in Honey's head was quiet and shy. Any conversation Honey tried to initiate was either one-sided or awkward. Finally, Honey backed off, telling her new familiar she would give them space and time.

A few days passed and not much had improved. Conversations with her familiar were rare if non-existent, but Honey was determined not to give up! Whenever her parents asked her how she and her familiar were getting along, Honey would give them a bright smile and tell them that she and her familiar were already the best of friends! One of the nights coming home after a game night at Lilac's house that Honey received a sending message from Keturi, urgently begging Honey to go to the shopping district to get her. While out on a patrol for her parent's thieve's gang, they came under attack by their rivals. It was originally a small skirmish, but it began to grow larger and larger. Keturi and her parents soon found themselves in the middle, and Keturi suffered an injury to the leg and couldn't run like her parents wanted her to. Instead she hid and called Honey. After receiving an image of Keturi's location, Honey took off in that direction despite her familiar's quiet protests. As they grew closer to the fighting, Honey told her owl to be her eyes behind her head, to let her know if anyone was going to come up from behind. Weaving through the streets, Honey safely made it to where Keturi was hiding out, but there was still the problem of the three of them getting out without getting into a fight. Putting one of Keturi's arms around her, Honey, Keturi, and her familiar began to make their way out of the fighting. A few times, her familiar had to warn them to hide or duck due to arrows and daggers flying, but there was one moment where a dagger flew past Honey's head and would've hit her familiar had Honey not yanked her owl into her arms. It surprised her familiar who gave her a peck in return, but after that moment, her familiar began to talk louder, more sure and confident as they made their way out.

It became apparent to Honey that it would be too difficult to try and get out of the shopping district after turning around several times and with Keturi's leg getting worse, but she knew her mother's store was nearby. The store would be safe, had basic medical supplies, and Honey had a key. They made it to the store with mostly no issues, but as they reached the store front and Honey went to unlock the door, her familiar told her to dodge just in time for a dagger to embed itself the door when Honey's head was a few seconds ago. Approaching the shop were two thieves with daggers, already covered in blood, drawn. Honey snatched the dagger off of Keturi's side and crouched, ready to defend her friend and her shop when a rogue, appearing from almost no where and dressed in a long black coat, fended the attackers off in two quick movements. Honey recognized the rogue as someone who has been inside her mother's shop before, and her mother always seemed annoyed when she came in. She took a quick look at the two and told them to get inside after tossing Honey a health potion for her friend. They safely went inside the shop and spent the rest of the night there until it was safe to go home in the morning. Keturi's parents were safe, and Honey had another story to tell.

The night after, Honey and her familiar were in their room. Honey was reading and her owl was pacing around the room. Back and forth they would walk until the tapping was too much for Honey to bear and she asked her owl, "Is there something troubling you?" This began a long conversation between the two. The two just spent the night asking each other questions with her familiar peppering Honey with questions about everything. As the sun began to rise in the sky, Honey asked her familiar what she wanted to be called and what she wanted to be. Surprisingly to Honey, her familiar confidently knew the answers to those questions. "Well, I've always wanted to be called Lucy, and I think I'd look quite nice as a duckling."

## Poking Her Nose Where it Shouldn't Be

Following her graduation, Honey was at an impasse. She wasn't terribly interested in following higher education as that would involve her moving to Hoxboard like Lilac and Elneak did, but she did want to keep learning and writing. Still, she needed to find work first before she could follow through with her dreams, and so her mother had her start working in their market store. The work Honey and Lucy busy and out of trouble, which she knew her mother wanted. Still, at night the city was large and hers for exploring, though she did usually find herself at a tavern most nights for cards and a drink or two now that she was earning money. She did this for nearly a year, and it seemed as if this is where her life was taking her, though she didn't realize how big of a story she would be wrapped up in.

## Joining the WWW

The WWW has a job board of potential stories that journalists can pick up if they currently do not have a story of their own that they're following or the story they were following ended up being harmless and they need a source of income.

They also have a list of contacts that if you need to, you can try and convince those people to talk.

Contacts and on what kind of case they met

## Becoming a Regular

Months after joining the WWW, Honey was slowly finding her footing in the journalist world. Specifically, how to meet deadlines. At the start, Honey tended to bite off more than she could chew and would consistently miss sleep to get deadlines done on time. Not much has changed for her in that respect, but she learned how to stagger her deadlines so that she did not find herself writing three papers at midnight with an eight in the morning deadline. She was also taking on smaller stories to pay the bills between her larger, more dramatic stories. Her particular favorite small stories to take would be ones covering the opening of some business in Whitewall or stories about up and coming bards. Even when she wasn't writing, Honey could be found enjoying the song of a bard or playing cards in a tavern between jobs and seeing loved ones. There was one night when Honey was enjoying a meal with a group of drinking buddies off of work from the docks when two women dressed in Naathoian attire asked to speak with Honey privately. The two looked serious and even a little anxious, and Honey sensed a story. She excused herself from the table, promising to come back to kick their butts at cards. She followed the two outside, and they politely introduced themselves as Lorazira, a half-elf, and Aritrix, a halfling. The name rang a bell to Honey, but it wasn't until they told her the name of their restaurant that Honey knew who they were. Lorazira and Aritrix were the new owners of the White Jade, a new Naathoian restaurant that has had one of the worst opening weeks Honey has ever heard of. When they first opened, a fire started in their kitchen, and everyone who has ever eaten there has gotten sick in some way. Lorazira and Aritrix were sure that the misfortune to fall on their restaurant was on purpose, not the will of the gods. Someone was trying to close them down, and they asked Honey to help them figure out who.

Honey took the case, believing that if they were telling the truth, it would be quite the story! She decided the best course of action would be to go undercover first. She began working at the restaurant in order to see if perhaps one of the staff was sabotaging the food. However, Honey could find no evidence whatsoever that any of the staff was contaminating the food. Her week working in the brought no news, but people were still getting sick. So, Honey decided to do an experiment. The day Aritrix and Lorazira recieved a new food shipment, Honey was the first one to take the ingredients off, and she cooked herself a meal. The result was she was sick for the next three days. This told Honey that either the person or group transporting their food was contaminating it or the source where they got it. Honey spent those three days going through the White Jade's paperwork, narrowing down where the food could be getting contaminated and who could be doing it. When she was feeling mostly better, Honey paid a visit to the source where Aritrix and Lorazira were allegedly getting their food for the restaurant, only to find that the market and butcher shop that they were receiving food from had never sent their goods to the White Jade. They had never received correspondence from the two after their first encounter and had assumed the White Jade decided to do business with someone else. Honey's last lead was the transporter. Every week, The White Jade would receive a shipment of food from a human man named Jackal, and this week would be the last week they would receive a shipment if Honey didn't work quick. So after they received their food for the week, Honey followed him through the streets of Whitewall until they reached the warehouses of the port. Keeping her distance, Honey kept an eye on which warehouse the man went into, and when he left, he had a sizable coin pouch hanging from his belt that was not there before. She followed him some more throughout the day, but Jackal just seemed to go home after visiting the warehouse.

Honey's next move, of course, was to break into the warehouse and search for evidence. She waited until well into the night to sneak into the building, and once inside, she had Lucy be her lookout while she searched through files after files looking for answers. What Honey found was that the warehouse was owned by Elluin Bikian, a wealthy noble man with various properties and stores in Whitewall and Hoxboard. Apparently, Elluin was looking into purchasing the building that The White Jade is currently in for a social parlor for other nobles, and he was not happen to find that the previous owner liked the idea of a Naathoian restaurant so much that they sold to Aritrix and Lorazira for less money than what Elluin was offering. Instead of finding a new location, he took it upon himself to sabotage the restaurant. His plan was to force The White Jade out of business, and when they did, he could swoop in and buy the building far cheaper than what it was worth. Honey gathered all the incriminating documents and placed them in her satchel when Lucy pinged at her that someone was coming. Honey, thanks to Lucy, was able to hide as a group of what Honey presumed were security guards passed by, and once they were gone, Honey and Lucy made their escape. Before dawn the next day, Honey had written her story and given all the documents to her contact in one of the guard stations in Whitewall. It seemed as if almost overnight, The White Jade began receiving more customers and Elluin Bikian was apprehended. Lorazira and Aritrix were thrilled and grateful that their restaurant could stay afloat and told Honey she was welcomed anytime. Honey, who had taken a liking to them during her investigation, became good friends with the two, and she became a regular at The White Jade.

It was even this restaurant where Keturi became engaged to her now fiance, Hanril Erroris, a charming half-elf who Keturi has fallen for. Honey isn't really sure when Keturi met him. She and Keturi would usually meet once a month for drinks at their favorite tavern, and one time Hanril started coming along to join them. Honey welcomed him to the table and grew to like him, and she saw how happy he made Keturi. One night when it was Keturi's turn to cover drinks, when he asked Honey where the best place to propose was, she readily suggested The White Jade.

## When Valharbour Fell

Following the mysterious murder of the Iairihni Emperor, tensions began to rise between the two countries. A peace treaty was signed, but it was only a matter of time until one side broke it. Despite using all their contacts, the Whitewall Word was unable to get any information on who could've taken out the Iairihni Emperor. The only thing they could do was report on the rising tensions. However, there wasn't much to cover in Whitewall, but it was known that the city of Valharbour was struggling under the pressure. The Iairihn a couple hundred soliders in the city or on war boats sitting just outside the harbor, and they were doing nothing. Honey had a feeling that they were waiting for something, and she was going to find out what.

Honey made all the preparations to take a ferry south to Valharbour to investigate what was happening, but the day before she was to take off, Honey grew incredibly sick. She had fallen so ill that her parents had to come over to take care of Honey just like when she was a child. Still, a story needed to be told, and so two other journalists in the WWW; Whirl, an air genasi and Amtur, a silver dragonborn; went to Valharbour in Honey's place. The two were down there for about a week when news of the city falling reached Whitewall. Honey was still ill, but she still got dressed and raced to the Whitewall Word to see if they had any news on their fellow journalists.

## Taking The Test

Two months after the tragedy of Valharbour, Honey was wrapping up work early at the WWW. Normally she could be found til the early hours of morning work on stories, not even noticing the suns rays til Lucy quacks like a rooster. If it wasn't for Lucy, Honey would sleep in the office. However, tonight Honey left at midnight as she had places to be. For the past few nights, there had been a series of murders, slowly making its way up the military command. Whitewall has had its share of murders and assassins, but there was an air of fear around it that Honey couldn't ignore. It took Honey a night to pick up on a pattern. It took her a few hours to convince her contact to tell her where to find the most recent crime scene. Placing everything she believed she would need in her satchel, she and Lucy took off to a general store in Lero called Chernow Market. The trip there wasn't cheap either. In order to get to Lero both before the evidence disappeared and in time follow leads in time for the next murder, Honey had to tap into her savings and purchase two one-time use Teleportation Circle scrolls. It pained her seeing the numbers leave her savings, but there was a feeling, deep in her gut, that this story would be the largest she would cover yet.

Taking the public teleportation circle to Lero, Honey made her way through the dark streets to Chernow Market, which was illuminated in the alley behind it by the lanterns of two Alteian guards. Pulling her coat tighter around herself to protect herself from the cold night air, Honey approached the guards and convinced her way past them to investigate the crime scene of Eddie Smoothhands, a halfling captain who was loyal to his commanders, harsh to his subordinates, and attacked in the store rooms of the market but died in the small alleyway. Inside the store room, Honey discovered a hole in the wall about as wide as a thumb is long, almost as if a sword went through it, and the blood surrounding it was an electric, lime-green color. When wafted towards her nose, it gave off a chlorine or a similar chemical scent. Being as careful as she could, Honey began to collect samples in her vials, but she wasn't careful enough as her hand came into contact with the poison. Hissing in pain, she pulled back her hand only to see that the poison began to turn the veins on her hand black. Eventually, the color stopped spreading, but the dark, black color remained. This was peculiar as Honey had never encountered a poison that acted this way. There was only one person Honey knew who could possibly identify this poison. Unfortunately, her counsel wasn't cheap.

Lady Mirian Oswe of Hoxboard, owner of Owse's Emporium of Magical Goods and Services, is one of WWW's most reliable contacts but the most expensive. Honey, after a long rest, dressed in her best journalist attire and made her way across the lower class district to Oswe's Emporium in Market Square. Standing in front of the doorway as always were the greeters, and inside was a bustling store full of people haggling to lower the prices of various magical goods, potions, and services. After requesting a meeting with Oswe, Honey sat down next to a noble looking man who seemed to be at the end of his rope with patience. After sitting for a while, the two strike up polite conversation, and he introduces himself as Lapel and Honey as herself. Even though the two knew of each other before this conversation, they had never talked face to face, and while talking about her investigation, Lapel mentioned he was missing a friend. This friend was not in the military, but he has been missing since they returned from Valharbour. His friend's name was Rickert, and Honey promised that if she found his friend, she would let Lapel know at his fine establishment, Thimble's Tip.

Not soon after that, Lapel had left without seeing Oswe as both his time and patience was up. Minutes after he left, Honey was brought into a back office to speak with Lady Miriam Oswe. Oswe's office was empty when Honey arrived, so she took a seat in front of the desk. Minutes later, an apparition appeared before Honey in the form of Oswe herself, and Honey was told Oswe was out of country but could still communicate this way. Honey explained that she was trying to identify the poison and where it originated from. A small circle appeared before the apparition, and when Honey placed it there, the vial disappeared and was in Oswe's hands (Gods, magic is so cool!). After studying it, Oswe returned the vial to Honey through another magic circle with a troubled look on her face. The poison, according to her, had no ingredients in it, but it wasn't a biological venom. When she tested it for magic, it came back negative. Oswe was stumped and had no more information to give, and so she sent Honey on her way with a bill of 320 gp for her services. Honey was just surprised the price was so low!

The time was approaching noon, and Honey needed to find out who the next target was. If she was following the pattern correctly, the killer's next target would be one of Altheia's commanders, but there were too many for Honey to figure out on her own. She spent the next seven hours speaking with her contacts, trying to narrow down which commander is most likely to be the next target and where they would be. Turns out, Commander Pratima Lakshmana was staying in the Red Brick Inn in the middle class residential area and seemed to be the next target. The commander, according to Honey's sources, was staying in the inn for her own safety while waiting for order from General Massan, who was not seeing subordinates at the time. With it already being dark, Honey needed to move quickly. The inn was lively on the inside with people talking and drinking at their tables or the bar and a waitress weaving her way through the room with trays of ale balanced perfectly on. Honey assumed the woman behind the bar was the owner, and she was correct! In order to be able to go upstairs, Honey had to spend even *more* money: 10 gp. Honey made her way up to the third floor where Commander Lakshmana was staying, but Honey had to guess which one was the correct one. Luckily, on her first try, she knocked on a door, and it swung open. Fearing it was a trap, Honey told Lucy to be her eyes, and the two made their way into the room. Immediately, Honey found herself under the spell of Zone of Truth which she did not fight. Standing before her were two gorgeous women. One was a fire genasi who was holding a sword, and the other was a very strong looking human who probably did not need a weapon to take Honey down. Both were in lingerie, and Honey realized she was intruding.

Despite it being hard to focus and make eye-contact with the two, Honey still managed to hold a brief conversation with Captain Frizzle, the fire genasi, and Commander Lakshmana. She explained while under the zone of truth that she believed Lakshmana was the next target and needed to find a safer location. With well deserved confidence, Commander Lakshmana told her that she and Frizzle were perfectly capable of defending themselves and asked Honey to leave as she was interrupting. Honey excused herself and exited the room, but she was still worried about the two. Deciding to attempt to draw the killer towards her to get more information, Honey casted the spell Alter Self to make her appear like the commander. She exited the Red Brick Inn and walked a good distance from the inn before she was approached by a figure from behind, and they told her that it didn't seem as if the killer was fooled by her ploy, but if she hurried she could still try to save the commander. They also told Honey that Massan was not the next target. When Honey turned around to see them, the figure was gone, and Honey was alone. Dropping the spell, Honey dashed through the streets to the inn and took the stairs two at a time to make it to Frizzle's and Lakshmana's door. Throwing the door open, Honey could see the captain and commander in bed together and in the windowsill, a figure dressed head to toe in black leather armor and a mask that obscured his entire face. In his hand was an ornate dagger with a dark green gem stone embedded in the hilt. Without even thinking, Honey threw a dagger at the figure, lodging it in his shoulder and caused him to stagger. Without giving him time to readjust himself, Honey dashed across the room and shoved him out the window three stories down. This did not come without consequences, however, as the killer managed to cut Honey on the arm with his dagger. The veins around the cut began to turn dark, her strength left her, and Honey's vision faded to black.

When she woke up, Honey was in bed and staring at a wooden ceiling illuminated by a candle on a bedside table near her head. Honey went to turn her head to get a bearing of her surroundings but found she couldn't move a muscle. After a few moments of Honey staring at the ceiling trying to even just move her toes, Lakshmana and Frizzle moved into her vision, and neither were still in their lingerie but in their military attire. They told Honey that she was stabilized and not going to die from the poison on the dagger, but she wouldn't be able to move for a few more hours. The two also thanked Honey for saving their lives and told her they were being summoned to the kings home. However, after glancing through Honey's journal and seeing her notes on the killer and his patterns, Lakshmana offered to get Honey an audience with the king and his generals at noon to which Honey blinked once for yes. Before leaving, Frizzle and Lakshmana expressed a hope that the next time the three meet, it could be to talk about more intimate matters, and Honey was left alone with a blush on her face.

It did indeed take Honey several hours to get her body moving again, and another hour to summon Lucy, who had disappeared when Honey had fallen unconscious. By the time she was done with that, the time was quickly approaching noon, and Honey had to rush to the king's home to make it in time. Thankfully, she was not late to her meeting with the King, and in that meeting, she told him everything she knew and who the next target most likely was. Since it wasn't going to be general Massan, the next likely target was going to be General Dara Malquis. At the end of the conversation, it was decided that General Dara's room would be guard, and Honey would be a part of the team guarding the general. The hours passed, and Honey was exhausted. There was not much happening outside of the general's room, and halfway through the night the other guards started to doze off. Call it keen senses or call it luck, Lucy and Honey heard a noise down the hallway, away from the general's room. Honey looked to the other guards to see if they noticed, but they seemed to be zoned out or asleep. Not wanting to wake anyone, Honey made her way down the hallway towards the noise and noticed a door slightly ajar. Inside the room, the king's daughter was looking terrified at a figure, dressed in all black leather with a mask obscuring his entire face and an ornate dagger in his hand. Honey burst into the room with her hands up to appear as non-threatening as she could. Honey asked the figure what he was doing and why, and all he said was "Testing." Now, she's not the self-sacrificing type, but Honey couldn't just let him kill the king's daughter. So, Honey offered to trade places with the king's daughter. Whatever he was testing, he could test in on her. The man stared at her for a while, and Honey was worried she would have to fight the man for a moment. However, he did approach her and before Honey could react she was unconscious for the second time in 24 hours.

Honey woke up to the sound of a door slamming against the wall as if it had been thrown open. Her head was pounding, and the lights filtering in through the windows were blinding. She barely got a glance at the general before she was lifted up by the front of her shirt by General Malquis, demanding that Honey explain what happened and what she was doing. Sitting nearby still looking terrified was the king's daughter, and Honey in a dazed voice told the general she saved king's daughter and fell unconscious during the exchange. She was then dropped back to the floor as the general went to tend to the daughter, and Honey had just made it back onto her feet as the king rushed in, still in his night attire. Coming in behind him was an elven man Honey did not recognize in politics, but his clothing seemed to have a Vanandosian aesthetic. Honey kept back while the king comforted his daughter, and after, she, the king, and the elven man stepped into the hall to talk. The king believed that the killer was growing more bold and that he needed to call in a group to handle the situation quickly. As Honey had saved his daughter, he offered to introduce her to them and let her be in on their case. The elven man, placing a hand on Honey's solider, told the king her looked forward to working with In Vtero and Honey, but when Honey looked at him, his eyes were meticulous and cold. She immediately knew she needed to keep her guard up around him, and soon after the conversation learned his name was Councilman Urimaer Venrora of Vanandos.

## Tracking Down Elbee

\*Needs Serious Editing\* [Honey's head was spinning after leaving In Vtero and learning about the Stones and [REDACTED]. There were so many large things happening in and around her city, and there was no one she could confide in for it. But! Whitewall was still her home, and there was still rebuilding and changes to do. For one thing, Honey finally was able to fully move into her new apartment. It was fairly bigger than her last place, and Honey finally could give Lucy her own space where she could read and relax rather than trying to share a space with her. Another thing, her parents finally decided to retire. It was something they had been planning for a long time, but after everything that happened with Rickert, they decided to finally make the decision to sell their farm and store to move to Lalaia. Honey helped them pack up their belongings and gave them both a tearful fairwell at the airship port. Maple and Aspen promised to send Honey tickets sometime soon so she could visit them in Lalaia and told her to wish Keturi the best with her soon-to-be husband. Honey was momentarily confused.

When she saw Keturi that night, Honey was told that after everything that had happened in Whitewall, Keturi and Hanril were going to hold their wedding in just a few days, and she asked Honey to help her get everything in order. There was a lot to do, but she did convince Keturi to give her a +2 to her wedding invitation.]

## Honey's Tarot Card

Personally, I see myself as a Sun Tarot Card

The Sun card represents success, abundance, and radiance. Like the sun itself, it gives strength and vitality to all those that are lucky enough to feel its rays. There is much joy and happiness that is coming to you.

Because of your own personal fulfillment, you provide others with inspiration and joy as well. People are drawn to you because they are capable of seeing the warm and beautiful energy which you bring into their lives. You are also in a position in which you are capable of sharing your qualities as well as achievements with other people. You radiate love and affection towards those you care about the most.

"The card shows that you have a significant sense of deserved confidence right now."

Life is currently particularly good, and the sun is shining your way as you reach the goals that you set. The Sun is one of the cards in the tarot which provide nothing but good feelings and fulfillment.