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Chapter 4

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        We emerged from another mirror inside a rather large storage room, the actual mirror itself large enough to extend nearly 15ft up and 20ft across, half draped in cloth. I looked back to Lily and used Message

        ~Try not to speak. Remember to stay close.~

        Lily gave a short nod and a thumbs up in confirmation. I slowly walked over to the other side of the room with Lily close behind, and carefully opened a door. It led to a large and expansive Hallway, extending nearly endlessly in both directions, but was empty of any actual people. I gave Lily a small motion to follow and slipped into the hallway. It took moment to get my bearings, but when I did, I picked a direction and we slowly proceeded moving down the hallway while staying close to the wall.

        This main hallway was lined with entrances to other corridors and rooms, and had passed dozens before we got to the specific entrance that I was looking for and headed down that path. This continued several more times as I led Lily through the maze that was Senaliesse.

        As we turned a corner into yet another corridor however, I stopped short and put a hand out to Lily to signal her to stop. Ahead, there were two elven knights guarding the path that they had to take. I breathed out a small sigh, guess it couldn't all be easy going, even if he did lead them through the best route. I looked back to Lily and used Message.

        ~Don't worry, I'll take care of them~

        Lily gave me a slightly worried glance, presumably concerned on what that might entail. I gave her a smile to reassure her before casting Invisibility on both of us and moved forward towards the two guards. When I was close enough to hear their whispers between each other, I took a moment to decide how I was going to get them out of here. After a minute of listening I decided on what the best path would be. I crept closer to one of the guards and cast Demand

        ~This work is hard. It would probably be better to go have lunch together~

        They looked around a moment confused, but after only a second she looked over to her fellow guard and asked if they wanted to go out for a bite to eat. The other guard seemed hesitant at first, but nodded their agreement and the two left.

        After I was sure that they had left, I dropped Invisibility and waved over to where Lily was. For a few moments there was no answer or movement, but then she appeared beside me, dropping an Invisibility spell. I flinched slightly at her reappearance, too which she gave a cheeky wink. but calmed when I knew it was her. I gave a small sigh an moved through the doorway the two guards were posted in front of and signaled her to follow me.

        After we passed through a few more corridors we finally made it to the room they were looking for. I pulled a small key from my bag of holding and carefully opened in the door. The room itself just seemed like a waiting room, with furniture and other livery, there were also five people inside: three adults, 2 children, and a teenager. I motioned Lily in and closed the door behind her

        I spoke low and quietly “Hello everyone, you can call me Rabbit and this here is Rey, we’re here to help you get out of here and into the material plane. I just need everyone to follow me and keep very quiet. Rey will stick behind you and keep watch of everything” everyone quickly began voice their own opinions on the manner. I quickly cast Silence so the noise didn’t become too much. I let out a silent sigh and used Message on the adults in the room.

        ~We have to stay quiet. Please just bear with us~

        ~We’ll have you out of the Feywild in no time~

        The two adults began to calm down and nodded. I dismissed Silence and they began to calm the other three down. After they were all settled and in agreement, I slowly opened the door and led them all out with Lily behind them.

        Thankfully this part was much easier and something I remembered much easier. I quietly took the others down a few corridors and paths, only taking about five minutes total. As we were going, I’d check ahead and behind us, to make sure that nothing was amiss, or gods forbid, we run into a Faerie. But we didn’t run into any other problems on the way there. When we finally reached the room I was leading everyone too, I carefully opened the door. The room was a semi-circle full of tall mirrors, each of them showing a murky image of another location. I motioned everyone else inside before I shut the door behind them.

        While they all gawked at the individual mirrors, I walked around slowly inspecting each one, before I finally settled on the one that I though would help us the most. I walked over to the mirror I had decided on and withdrew my knife and made a small cut on my hand and placed it onto the mirror. I called out to the others and instructed them to go through the mirror starting with Lily. They all went in with no problem at all, and after I was sure they made it through, I followed aswell.

        When I emerged with everyone else, I first looked to make sure that Lily was present, and when I confirmed that I went ahead and let myself breathe easily. The room they were in looked to be just a small house in the residential district of one of the cities.

        “Welcome to the Prime Material everyone! I’m just going to go check outside to make sure everything is ok, and you can all be on your way.” I started to move to the exit and motioned Lily to follow to which she happily did.

        We both stepped outside and it was a rather sunny and nice day, other people were walking around and going about there day. I heard a shuffle and gasp behind me as someone hit the ground. I turned and was wary and ready to use my magic. Lily was helping a young elf off the ground.

        “I’m so sorry, are you hurt at all?”

        The elf brushed the dust off her dress and waved her hand dismissively. “I’m fine, thank you for asking.” She paused a moment “I don’t think I’ve seen you around before? I’m Faelyn Gilven what’s your name?”

        Lily gave me quick prying look, probably unsure if she was supposed to be speaking. I gave her a quick nod and used Message.

        ~Its ok, just tell her your other name.~

        Lily nodded subtlety and looked to the elf “My name is Rey, its nice to meet you.” And she gave the Faelyn a small bow.

        She gave a small bow in return “Likewise, why are you here today?”

        I used Message again to let Lily know what I'd be doing.

        ~Go ahead and Talk, I'm going to get everyone else handled~

        Lily gave another quick nod as she had a cheerful conversation with the young elf. I turned around and went back into the house and addressed the people inside. I explained to them that they were now in the material plane and they didn’t have to worry so much about everything, even old Fae Laws had little power here, as they were able to share their true name with little to no repercussions, but that I would still suggest they stay away from using their real names. I gave them all a gold coin each and told them that should tide them over for quite a while, try to find a job and live their new lives

        They all thanked him profusely and left the home to try to integrate themselves into the new city. I went outside and saw that Lily was still talking to the elf from earlier, so I just stayed by the door and let her continue her conversation, she never got to spend too much time in the big cities, so I was happy to let her have the time to experience it.

        After a good bit the elf began to leave and gave Lily a wave as she did so, and I walked over to her “You have a good time, Lily?”

        She turned to me and nodded happily “She was nice and seemed enthusiastic to talk about her family, I’d like to meet them one day,”

        “Well hey, we’ve got at least a week until our next outing, we could totally come back here and you could meet up with her again. How about after a day of rest we come back here?”

        Lily gave an excited nod “That sounds great”

        I nodded myself and took her hand “Well lets go ahead and get back then so we can have a nice day of rest together.” I made extra sure to emphasize rest before I pulled out a Planeshift scroll and used it to bring us back home.

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