Testing this, she drinks a cupful of swamp water to test the taste, much to the disgust of the twins. Changing the subject, she excuses herself to test a theory that a " sorcerer friend" of hers had, that the people of Stilben were being poisoned. Vex explains that her brother has never seen another othlir, or "ill-born" in Elvish, which Keyleth finds shocking. Keyleth exclaims that they really are twins, to which Vax only stares at her, embarrassing the druid. The twins answer with an unenthused no, but Vex admits that she will occasionally finish an enemy off if they are not killed by Vax, which Vax finds sweet. After a stuttered thanks and a mention of their twinhood, Keyleth awkwardly asks if they can finish each other's sentences.
The druid notices Vax's wound from the shark and magically heals the apprehensive half-elf. Vex nocks an arrow and aims it at the druid, demanding to know who she is, and Keyleth nervously introduces herself and gawks at the body of the shark-speaker, noting that the people of Stilben believe the shark-speakers to be behind the curse and that all of their babies are stillborn. The squirrel magically transforms into Keyleth. While she tries to deduce what the shark-speaker has to do with the curse, Vax, bleeding and laying in his sister's lap, notices a squirrel nearby waving at him with him a rather intelligent look on its face, which Vex dismisses, mentioning the amount of blood he has lost. Both men are knocked down and the shark-speaker gets up and approaches Vex while pulling out a blade as Vax appears behind him and slits the shark-speaker's throat.Īs Vax crumples to the ground, Vex rushes over, apologizing for being so "keen on the chase". The shark-speaker throws a spear at Vex, who dodges out of the way and shoots the shark dead through the eye. At that moment, Vax is pulled beneath the water, causing Vex to scream his name and fire and few arrows, prompting a shark to rise up, with Vax in its mouth and a shark-speaker on its back. She turns around to see her brother stuck, knee-deep in water, for which she scolds him. Vex speculates that there is an entity that is likely profiting from the curse and kneels down to taste the water, finding it interesting that the swamp water is saltwater. Hired to investigate the source of this curse, Vax suggests they speak to that mother or other locals, but Vex dismisses both ideas, thinking the townsfolk would only give an ignorant answer such as demons, although Vax reminds her that they were raised by a peasant. Vax and Vex step out from a nearby tree and discuss what they had just witnessed. As two shark-speaker hands pull the baby under the water, the woman is dragged back to Stilben as the older woman notes that more babies die before the end of the night. Considering her too weak to do what she believes necessary to satisfy the "Lady of the Muck", the old woman rips the baby from the young woman's arms and tosses it into the lake while the mother, restrained by the man, cries out for her child. The mother shows the others that her baby is still breathing, taking it to be a sign that its health will improve, but the older woman disagrees, thinking the baby to be cursed and the curse a punishment for the mother and her partner for "the way live".
Synopsis Ī young human mother, carrying her baby, is accompanied by an elderly human woman and another human man as they walk through the swampland surrounding Stilben. Things are not what they seem for the adventurous siblings…between fighting shark-riding fish men and black-clad assassins, they meet an antlered half-elven druid with her own theory about the curse.
Roguish twins Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia investigate a curse afflicting the impoverished citizens of the port city of Stilben.
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