Editing The Third Eye (section)

===Trapped Under Shadows===
====The Royal Palace====
After leaving the Mondar Crypt, the group went directly to the estate Nandor told them about. As expected, one of the massive kegs in the basement was actually a secret door that could be opened to reveal a narrow staircase descending down into a long, narrow tunnel. About a hundred feet in was an ornate gate with a complicated locking mechanism. They opened it with the Master Key, then continued for some distance before hearing a horrible voice rasp out of the darkness: "You are my meal that was promised and the carriers of my treasure. I will implant my eggs into your body, and you shall bear my spawns!" What scuttled out towards them looked like a naked, pale-skinned woman from the waist up, and a giant cockroach from the waist down. She had festering scabs all over her body, and her face was flat and chitinous, lacking ears or a nose and with mandibles, feelers, and large insectoid eyes. Leon, Sylas, and Isabelle promptly hit it with their biggest spells, quickly destroying it.

The tunnel eventually emerged through a secret door into the king's cabinet, a private room to which no one else, not even the queen, was allowed entry. It was finely decorated, including fine wines and liquors and a rack with some very fine swords. From there they passed through the king's bathroom (with a gold toilet seat) into the royal bedroom, where a dead naked elf was lashed to the bed, having bled to death from hundreds of cuts. After looking in the queen's bathroom, they entered the royal wardrobe, which was filled with expensive outfits and also a leather dress made from flayed people. Sylas found some unusual plant matter and odd bits of brimstone and ash on Lyrencia's clothing, and began to suspect that either she had been replaced by a devil, or she had summoned the devils they found back in the mill. Ililen poked his out out one of the three doors leading out. With Nandor's map, they knew that this was a large sitting room that surrounded the royal chambers. From the door he could saw a bunch of thick vines spread throughout the room, some of which were sprouting large purple flowers that Leon identified as carnivorous death cups. He then poked his head out of the second door, and was immediately spotted by a pair of werehellhound knights standing guard. After a brief fright, the group decided to take a rest before continuing on. Sylas looked around, saw that the vines were thickest where they emerged from a nearby door, and cast blight upon. As the vines withered, a loud angry screech was heard from behind the door, which burst open to reveal four furious dryads.

During the ensuing fight, one of the dryads magically charmed Ilara to protect her, and another charmed Ililen to let no one through the door. While Ililen did his duty and defended the door against his comrades, Ilara took her order more literally than the dryad expected and defended her... from the other dryads. The four soon fell, and the group stepped into the next room and found what was left of the royal treasury; it had obviously been plundered, and only a handful of scattered coins remained. After taking a few minutes to rest, they passed through the door that the werehellhounds had been guarding to find an absolute mess of a bedchamber: rotting food and torn clothing strewn about, questionable stains on the bed, a decapitated stuffed bear, and a partially burned dollhouse with the dolls hanging by their necks. Within this room they found Queen Aphinah playing with a fey creature that Ilara recognized as a mumus. Her mother had once told her stories of them, and the scream she let out was so terrifying that Ililen leapt into the room and beat it with her staff until it stopped moving. Sylas demanded to know where the crown was, and Aphinah simply grinned and said it was her sister's turn to wear it. Ilara stabbed Aphinah, and though the queen dropped bleeding to the floor she stood up a moment later, giggling wickedly and scratching at Ilara with her nails. Ililen smashed her over the head, but she once again rose, seemingly free of injury, and Sylas realized that despite her human appearance, she must be something else capable of regenerating. They tried fire. They tried lightning. They tried necrotic energy. None were capable of slaying the queen. Eventually Ilara cut off her head - something that made Ililen visibly uncomfortable - and she simply got up and put her head back on. Enraged at being constantly scratched, Ilara finally cut off her hands and flung them across the room, causing Ililen to go nearly catatonic from shock. Finally Leon conjured a beam of moonlight to bathe her in radiant energy; at this, Aphinah shrieked in pain and, at last, died. While Leon and Isabelle helped Ililen come back to himself, the others searched the queen's room. Though there was nothing particularly valuable, they did find a number of scrawled notes with messages like "Born in hell, burn in hell!" and "It's my turn, bitch!"

Continuing their exploration through the breakfast nook and across the sitting room, they found another bedroom that was dusty and unused; it was clear that no one had been here for years. The sitting area was filled with defaced paintings of the late Queen Elyssa, while the bed was without a mattress and a nearby armor rack stood bare. When they pulled out a desk drawer, they found that on the bottom someone had drawn a picture of Kill Waldrann, Queen Lyrencia, and Princess Aphinah being violently tortured. Above it was a drawing of a glaive and the words, "I will avenge you, mother." They concluded that this was the bedchamber of Prince Krasnar, mostly untouched since his death fifteen years ago, who clearly blamed his father and stepmother for his mother's death. They recognized Elyssa's face as having been on the erinyes that slew the king, and the glaive as the spectral one that had appeared during his funeral, but they still weren't sure how the clues fit together. Was King Waldrann really responsible for Elyssa' death? Was Krasnar justified in demanding recognition of his status as heir, leading to the fight that claimed his life? Was it a legitimate concern, or was he merely making a pretense to usurp his father? They could not yet answer any of these questions, however, and still had the crown to find besides.

Exhausted from the long day, and with their magical reserves fading, they decided to spend the night in Krasnar's bedroom and continue their search refreshed in the morning. Isabelle conjured a magical shelter in front of the door for them to sleep in, but it was not longer after doing so that they heard a scream from the next room, followed by angry shouting. Assuming the bodies of the guards - and the queen - had been found, they prepared for a fight while Sylas listened quietly at the door. He heard someone enter the prince's wardrobe, walk to the bedroom door, and try to open it. With the magical shelter in the way, though, it had no room to open. And as Sylas listened, the figure on the other side cursed in annoyance, and then left. Letting out a sigh of relief, they settled down for a wary sleep.

The next morning, they went back to their search. First through the royal kitchen, where they found a swarm of ghoulish pixies in the pantry, then through a dining room that was an absolute mess of leftover food and broken glasses, and then through the drawing room where they found a Hargram-stamped platinum bar wedged between two sofa cushions. Past the drawing room were the knights' quarters, where they interrupted and subsequently killed a pair of werehellhounds who were sparring. Their path led them downstairs, where they emerged into the back of the throne room, the middle of which was now filled with a veritable forest of dangling chains. Several of them were wrapped around bodies that writhed and twitched, so Isabelle levitated Ilara up to rescue one. Staring into the chains, she was surprised to see a devil staring back at her with the face of one she knew to be dead, which startled her so much she failed to attack it. The devil next turned its gaze on Ililen, but it had miscalculated; instead of being shaken by seeing the face of a dead loved one, the monk howled in fury, and swung up through the chains to kill the devil. With the creature dead, they realized that the bodies were dead as well, the devil having been moving them to look alive as bait.

Beyond the throne room they came across a long hall with two murals: one showing a ragtag army battling chromatic dragons, and one showing Master Arlen and King Tarn Hargrave standing outside the newly-built royal palace. Past the hall of history was the hall of monarchs, featuring statues of the late King Waldrann, Dowager Queen Lyrencia, and Queen Aphinah. The king's statue had been toppled over, and the Third Eye took the opportunity to deface the other two. The next room they checked was the hall of trophies, where the heads of great beasts (including a dire bear and a red dragon) were mounted. Three absolutely terrified servants were busy dusting them, but they happily told the group what they knew of the queen: one of them had seen a carriage from the Gorso family by the stable, and suspected she was entertaining them in the meeting rooms in the west wing, across the garden. They then decided they were done dusting and practically bolted out of the room. The group consulted their map and decided to take the most direct path there. This led them into the reception hall, which was dominated by a massive painting depicting the attack on the palace by the blue dragon [[Malzdreziret]] several decades ago, and occupied by half a dozen clearly inebriated royal guards. The guards tried to stop them, but when that proved beyond their ability in their drunken state, one of them staggered into the ballroom next door and called for the queen.

Surprisingly, Aphinah was in the ballroom with three werehellhounds, torturing servants for amusement. She sneered at them for interrupting her fun, and they quickly discovered that this queen, too, couldn't be killed until Leon shone another moonbeam upon her. Having now killed Aphinah twice, with neither one having the crown, the group was perplexed as to what was going on. Knowing they had little time to dally, however, they proceeded outside and across the garden to the open-air hallway of the west wing, guarded by still more werehellhounds. Though they dispatched them quickly, a group of the queen's witchservant cultists emerged from the direction of the meeting rooms to investigate, along with more royal guards. Isabelle hurled a fireball into their midst and charged in along with Ilara, where they saw Queen Aphinah, bearing both the crown and her father's Falcon Blade, seated at a table with her mother. The nobles they were meeting with were huddled in the corner, begging for their lives. Lyrencia took one look at the intruders and vanished, teleporting away. Ilara quickly relieved Aphinah of the sword and attempted to pull the crown off, but it seemed to be attached to her head. It was not until Leon killed her with another moonbeam that the crown came off. Suddenly Ilara's eyes glazed over, and she put the crown on her own head, declaring that they needed to find Queen Lyrencia, now the true ruler of Hargram, and deliver it to her. Isabelle promptly dispelled the compulsion from the barbarian, and Sylas used a magical hand to remove the crown and drop it into the Crate of Magic Nullification. Sparing one final look at the terrified nobles cowering in the corner, they took the Falcon Blade as well as the queen's mithril torc and swiftly made their escape; Ilara also stole a silver sword from the weapon rack in the king's private chambers on their way out. After dispatching two more werehellhounds standing guard in the secret tunnel, they emerged back into the afternoon streets of Hargram to find it as dim as twilight, even though it was still early morning. Looking up, they saw that the entire city had become enclosed in a massive dome of pure shadow energy.

====Under the Shadowdome====
Over the course of the next week, it became clear that the shadowdome formed a solid barrier through which no living being could pass. Various magics confirmed that it existed in all coterminous planes, and could neither be dispelled nor bypassed with teleportation magic. Further testing revealed that the dome's source was somewhere within the [[Shadowfell]]. During this time, the High Speaker explicitly named each member of the party, except Avra, as an enemy of the crown, wanted for stealing from the royal palace, with a reward of 1000g for information or 2000g for each of their heads. As detailed descriptions of them had been circulated as well, they spent most of their time hiding out in the Royal Menagerie with the Uncanny Vagabonds. And, despite a great number of attempts, had failed at destroying the crown. Until, finally, Elder Taris came to them with a plan. He had a contact inside the palace, who said that in the morning, the Queen would open a hole in the shadowdome to allow a group of soldiers to leave the city. The contact also sent along Royal Sword uniforms and false papers designating them as new recruits. Taris asked only that they take with them his cousin Gren - who the Vagabonds believed to be the bastard son of the late King Waldrann - who would make contact with their allies outside the city.

They seized on the opportunity, and the next morning they went to the Crown Gate in disguise. The guard captain chewed them out for being late, then ordered them into an armored troop carriage with a number of other soldiers. Soon after they boarded, Queen Aphinah arrived on a palanquin, seemingly wearing the very crown they had stolen. She announced that she had come to see off the brave soldiers of Hargram on their journey...

...Which would end right now. She cackled as the transport doors slammed shut, and moments later a cloud of necrotic gas appeared within, causing all of the soldiers with them to die and promptly rise again as zombies. Isabelle, Leon, and Sylas all teleported out to the nearby rooftops, where they were met with attacks from archers on the ramparts and the witchservant cultists surrounding the queen. Meanwhile, half a dozen guards and a pair of werehellhounds waited in the street in case the others broke down the door, which Ililen and Ilara eventually did.  After Isabelle hurled a fireball at Aphinah, she teleported away, displaying spellcasting abilities they'd never known her to have in the past. Leon summoned a herd of draft horses to provide cover, and after a long battle they eventually made their escape.

As they ran down an alleyway, a man stepped out of the shadows and into their path, wearing a fine silk robe with one shoulder bared to display a large tattoo of a tiger. He introduced himself as Samsadur, leader of the Golden Masks, emphasizing that he hoped his identity would lend weight to his words. He explained that he had the ability to send them into the Shadowfell to bring down the shadowdome, and then bring them back afterwards. In exchange, he merely wanted them to escort him to a business associate in the Shadowfell outside the city. As they'd exhausted all other ideas for breaching the dome and had been unable to destroy the crown themselves, they accepted the offer. Samsadur told them he had an associate in the Shadowfell with a counterpart on the Material Plane, and that the two were able to communicate with each other and, subsequently, him.

This associate, a gnome named Zurafkina Shoemaker, had discovered that the shadowdome was being generated from the Shadow Ziggurat, a structure occupying the same location as the palace, which had been the seat of power for a fallen angel for millennia. Additionally, once the dome appeared, a dark song of despair could be heard throughout the Shadowfell version of the city, sapping all positive emotions from everyone who heard it. She also reported that a small tribe of shadow giants, led by a night hag, had made camp at the Shadow Ziggurat and were known to have brought many prisoners to the Shadowfell version of the dungeons over the last several years. Since the dome went up, a faint cloud of shadow could be seen moving from the dungeons to the ziggurat. She knew of only one place in the city where the song could not be heard: the Shadowfell version of the Eyrie of the Fabled, a well-known theater with soundproof walls, but when she went there she saw a haunting phantasmal play on stage that drove her to flee. Despite the dangers, Samsadur felt confident that the Third Eye would be able to find a way to remove the shadowdome. Gren, meanwhile, elected to return to his people and find out why they had been sent into an ambush.

Samsadur allowed them to spend the night in a Golden Mask safehouse, where he showed them a pair of heavy chests bound with solid padlocks that would be transported to his business associate once the dome was down. He warned that they were protected with deadly traps, and advised them not to open them. When asked what they contained, he replied only that their contents were of great importance to his business associate. The next morning, he plane shifted them into the Shadowfell.

====Dirge of the Dark Angel====
Within the Shadowfell, Hargrave was dreary, dilapidated, and almost entirely uninhabited. As soon as they arrived, they could hear the mournful tones of the son of lament, to which Ililen and Leon quickly succumbed. As they walked, they could indeed see the massive black ziggurat dominating the center of the city where the palace was in the Material Plane. They could also see  the stream of shadows flowing from the dungeon to the ziggurat, and that a thin stream was now issuing forth from the monk and the druid to join it. Samsadur led them first to Zurafkina's house, where they left the chests they brought along. Zurafkina introduced them to a large man with a glaive named Orellir, who claimed to have escaped the Dungeon of Tears and wished to help them in exchange for passage back to the Material Plane from whence he had been kidnapped. Samsadur studied him for a long time, but accepted his proposal. Orellir warned them that the warden was a night hag known as the Gloom Widow.

After a quick discussion, they decided their first priority must be rescuing the prisoners. On their way there, Leon spotted a drow tailing them across the rooftops. He sent his owl familiar to investigate, and saw that the drow had six extra eyes in his forehead and a few slender tentacles coming from the back of his head. As soon as the drow saw the owl, however, he vanished in a burst of shadow; despite watching for him, they did not see him again by the time they reached the prison. Ilara knocked on the door, and though there was no answer Sylas did spot a raven flying from one of the sentry towers into the prison yard beyond. They walked around to the side and were attacked by a lone shadow giant, after which Leon decided to simply stone shape an entrance into the wall, which led them into the back of a cell. The prisoner within was utterly indifferent to the rescue, and seemed disinclined to leave his cell until Ilara physically picked him up and placed him outside, where he simply shrugged and sat down. Ilara then smashed the wooden door off its hinges, and looked very pleased with herself until she realized there was a hell hound on the other side that spewed fire into the cell. After she and Orellir killed it, they stepped out into the western prison yard. It was surrounded by cells on three sides, and iron doors into the interior building on the fourth. There was also a teleportation circle on the ground.

Hearing whistling from one cell, they found its inhabitant cheerily whistling to himself, and smashed down the door. The man inside introduced himself as Jasper Platinumhand, the "Baron of the Multiverse." He'd also been snatched from Hargrave, but had thus far managed to resist the song of despair, something he attributed to his cheery personality. He also suggested said personality is why the Gloom Widow intended to have him executed the next day, so he was quite glad for the rescue. They offered to let him join them, and he accepted... But noted he would stay in the yard until they were ready to leave, being useless in a fight.

Ilara smashed through one of the sliding iron doors into the main building, finding a small guardroom with another door, arrow slits in the wall, and four levers. Sylas went in and pulled one, and he heard the sound of metal sliding against stone just before he got shot with a crossbow bolt. On his way back out he pulled another lever, which resulted in the same sound. Ilara started bashing through the next door, but Isabell cast mage hand on the third lever and it slid open to reveal an anteroom with a night hag standing in it; she promptly blasted Ilara with magic missiles, but was counterspelled by Isabelle. A fight ensued that quickly turned into Ilara getting enlarged and blocking the door, while getting pummeled by two invisible stalkers, with the night hag casting spells from behind them. So Leon polymorphed Sylas into a giant ape, who picked up a big rock and threw it at the night hag; badly injured, she cursed them to be devoured by sorrow and haunting dreams of loves lost before plane shifting away as Ilara killed the stalkers. Sylas the ape went out and smashed open every cell door in the eastern and western yards, gathering a crew of about fifty depressed prisoners who had to be physically led out of their cells because they couldn't muster the motivation to leave by themselves. They looked through the prison interior but found nothing of interest beyond the prisoners' belongings.

Leon suggested taking the prisoners along to the ziggurat, but Samsadur vetoed that on the grounds that taking them to where the shadow stuff being drawn from them was going was a terrible idea. Instead, he suggested guiding them to the one place in the city where the song couldn't reach them: the Eyrie of the Fabled. As they walked through the Shadowfell with their prisoners, they talked about what had happened. When one of them mentioned the night hag warden, one of the prisoners suddenly perked up, recalling his own experience with a hag, years and years ago, when a hag named Angheu killed his parents. This caused Ililen to perk up and demand more information, and though he refused to elaborate on why he was very intrigued at what the prisoner told him. Their discussion was cut short when a gargantuan shadow spider attacked them from the rooftops, spraying a shadow web into the street that sapped everyone's strength. After they killed it, they made their way to the Eyrie of the Fabled, which looked just as dilapidated and run down as the rest of the city. Ilara walked through the lobby and opened a door to the theater itself, which was shockingly pristine, and filled with patrons watching a show on stage featuring a prince defending a princess from a half-dragon aboard a ship. Ilara, who had never seen theater before and assumed that the prince was really trying to defend a real princess from a real half-dragon, charged towards the stage, only to be stopped by a shadow emerging from the crowd.

The rest of the party followed, but Ililen and Avra became entranced by the play found a pair of open seats from which to watch it. Even after the shadows were dealt with, they refused to leave their seats, despite the rest of the group recognizing that the play was dismally bad. Meanwhile Ilara leapt on stage and swung her sword at the half-dragon, who nimbly dodged every swing while continuing his dialogue as if he weren't being attacked. This continued until the scene shimmered and changed to one of the prince professing his love to the princess from a jail cell. Sylas and Orellis recognized that these seemed to be ghostly spirits doomed to re-enact their play forever, and suspected that performing it themselves for the spirits might break the spell. Unfortunately, none of them were familiar with the play. So they went off in search of the script and found themselves in a storage room filled with precariously stacked boxes with random corridors twisting through them. Ilara and Sylas headed in, but instead of a script they found an angry minotaur. They attacked it, only to dislodge some of the stacked items and find themselves buried under boxes, but Sylas cast a spell of suggestion on the minotaur and told it to help them find the script, and it abandoned the fight to start poking around in the storage room.

After about ten minutes they had found a number of props, but no script, so they moved on. They first found a costume room, though without any information about what costumes were needed they made a note of it and kept going through a line of dressing rooms. Most were empty, but one contained the ghostly actress playing the princess singing a mournful tune. Still not seeing a script, they pressed on until they found the green room, where the actor playing the prince was silently acting out his part. Sylas stepped inside to ask him, or at least go past him, and discovered there was a silence spell over the entire room. The ghost did not take kindly to being disturbed, and attacked them.  Past the green room was the director's office, where they at last found a script. It was in poor condition, and mostly illegible, but they were able to find a synopsis, a cast list, and one intact scene: the finale, in which the prince and princess console each other as their ship sinks, and the princess sings a song about doomed love.

They went back to the lobby and ushered all the prisoners into the soundproofed theater, though Samsadur refused to risk losing his mind to the play and remained in the lobby. One by one, each of them became entranced by the play and compelled to take seats. Curiously, despite it being a full house, there were somehow just enough empty seats for them all. Jasper Platinumhand, however, they asked to be one of their performers, and play the part of the princess, a role he gleefully accepted. And to play the role of the prince opposite him, they decided Ilara would be the best candidate, and Sylas could telepathically feed her the lines directly from the script. While the bard went off to learn his song from the singing ghost, Isabelle and Leon went off to gather the relevant props from the store room, and Ilara, finding that the ghost of the prince's actor had reappeared, watched him to learn the proper gestures for the scene. That left Sylas to go retrieve the costumes, but when he stepped into the room an enormous shadow elemental emerged from the pile of discarded clothes. He screamed, bringing Ilara into the room. She promptly got her strength drained by the creature, so Sylas tried casting blight but discovered it was immune. Fortunately, the rest of their companions arrived in time to destroy it before it could further drain Ilara's strength.

With the script, the costumes, the song, the stage directions, and the props, they were ready to put on a play. With the ghost of the director watching from the wings, and occasionally screaming at Ilara to act better, they managed to put on a passable rendition of the finale act of The Tragedy of Princess Garilasia. With the scene completed, the ghosts faded away, and with them the illusion covering the theater, revealing the auditorium to be as decrepit as the rest of the building, and the audience having been just as much a part of the illusion. With the spell broken, everyone crowded into the theater and settled in to wait for the effects of the dirge to wear off. Samsadur warned them to lock the doors and post a watch, as it would be a long night. Indeed, only four hours later they heard the sound of the exterior doors in the lobby and the storage room being smashed open.

The Third Eye rushed to the front, since there was still a minotaur in the storage room and Sylas's spell on it had ended, where they found a pair of shadow giants coming in through the door. Orellir waited by the stage door into the storage room, and listened to a third giant get into a fight with the minotaur. Leon summoned a swarm of giant spiders, but Ilara, still fatigued from the shadow elemental, was quickly knocked unconscious. Sylas threw a bead at one of them, trapping it in a bubble of force while they dispatched the other one, got Ilara back on her feet, and rushed to the storage room at back of the theater in time to see the third giant crash through the boxes, having slain the minotaur. Wounded from the fight, however, it quickly fell before them and they returned to the lobby to finish off their remaining foe.

A full twenty-four hours later, everyone had finally recovered from the deleterious effects of the sorrowful song outside. And, without their to power it, the dome of shadow went away. Samsadur, naturally, reminded them of their deal: they had agreed, once the dome was down, to escort him and his chests to an associate of his outside the city. Though some of them wished to deal with the problem more directly at the Shadow Ziggurat, Sasmsadur insisted that per their agreement, his business must come first. Leaving the people in the theater, with Jasper Platinumhand to keep up their spirits, they told them they'd find a way to get them all back home and departed.

====Lair of the Eternal Hive====
After retrieving the chests from Zurafkina's home, Samsadur led them to a ravine about ten miles outside the city. At the bottom was an enormous stone arch engraved with magic runes, guarded by a rotting black dragon writhing with glowing green worms that referred to itself as "we." Samsadur bowed to it and opened the chests, revealing two well-preserved dead bodies. He told the dragon that he had killed two of the three individuals it had tasked him with slaying, but after searching for the third for a year he was now convinced the third was no longer on the Material Plane and could not be found. However, he hoped that these two would be sufficient to fulfill his end of the bargain he'd made with the dragon. The dragon was not pleased with this pronouncement, and became even angrier when Samsadur threatened to simply take the two bodies with him and leave the dragon with nothing. Finally, the dragon ordered its shadar-kai minions to bring out "the item", an ornate magical bow. Then the dragon stomped on it, snapping it in half before kicking the pieces over to Samsadur and angrily declaring their business to be concluded.

Samsadur, though clearly displeased by its destruction, accepted. When Ililen asked about their deal, he told them that the bodies were none of their concern but that he while he had hoped to sell the bow for a tidy sum back home, he was willing to sell it to them for half price, trusting they were resourceful enough to get it repaired. They declined, since none of them fought with a bow. The dragon then offered to make a deal with them in exchange for the usage of its magical arch to return to the Material Plane. Samsadur encouraged them to decline, as he could simply return them home himself. When they asked again to return to the ziggurat in search of the source of the mournful song, Samsadur once again declined; the agreement was that he would being them to the city and back in order to remove the dome, which they had now done. He had no intention of remaining in the Shadowfell while they investigated further, and as they had no other means of getting back short of the dragon's unspecified price for the use of the arch, the heroes ultimately agreed to return with him, feeling guilty about the prisoners they were leaving behind.

Once back in the Material Plane, Samsadur thanked them for their assistance. He assured them he considered Queen Aphinah "bad for business," and that though he knew most of them would disagree ideologically with his organization, on this matter their interests aligned. Asking Orellis to stay behind for a private chat, he then had his agents sneak the Third Eye out of the city.