Role

Chapter 12

Already tired from many days of adventuring, Drissa found herself overcome by
exhaustion. Concerned for her health, she checked with a healer, but when
they found nothing wrong she let herself into the Hamsah guild hall and fell
fast asleep. As she slept, she began to dream. A sensation of weightlessness,
then falling, falling, falling, too fast, impossibly fast. Rays of brilliant
light, streaks through the starry skies, visible through... a glass window?
Strange sounds, demonic, squealing and roaring all about, and suddenly -
panic! A massive, steel dragon slips out from between the stars, gathering
energy into its maw... and then blackness.

Drissa has dreamed before, but never anything so vivid. It felt, as she would
say later, true. She lacks a better way to describe it, and has little
experience with dream visions. Although she couldn't possibly conclude so on
her own, it is likely that her brain is trying to make sense of fragments of
memories that remain from before her trip through the time portal,
contextualizing them within the reality she now knows. However, she cannot
help but wonder if the vision is linked to her forgotten past.

As she woke, before the memory of the vision could fade, she reached out to
Lord Thaedan for guidance. Together with the Ancient Knight in the Fortress,
they concluded that there may well be something meaningful about the vision,
and that she should continue to pursue understanding of it.

Thaedan wisely counseled that she remain vigilant against the possibility of
malevolent outside influence, and also suggested that she consult with the
Witch of the Library, Ishuli. He left her with some words that bolstered her
spirit, wisdom that she has clung to throughout her life and hopes to share
with others, too. "If there is one thing I know," the ascended Captain spoke,
"It is that though the world around us changes, and is not the same today as
it was yesterday, and will be different still on the morrow... The cause to
which we have committed ourselves persists, and the blessings of the Light
persist, yesterday, today, and for all tomorrows."

Drissa's time in the Witch's library was filled with surprise after surprise.
During a short yet enlightening lecture on the nature of dreams, Drissa came
to realize that she was far less concerned with the specifics of the dream
but rather with whether it might speak to her forgotten memories. She found
her attention wandering to the book in her pocket, and made up her mind to
show it to the Goddess, in hopes that Ishuli might recognize it and shed
light on her past. Much to her surprise and dismay, the Witch seemed more
than a little perplexed by the thing, but could not or would not say more
about it, at least in terms that Drissa understood. However, she stoked
Drissa's intuition that the dream might relate somehow to the memories that
are lost to her...