[IRP] Return to the Dread Isle

[Alusq]

"No need to apologise," Renata murmured with a shake of the head. She sat in thought for a moment. "I would have gone too, given the same circumstances." She thought of Laus. Though Thria was the place she'd come to know as home in her life, Laus was where she came from. It was hardly an isolated ruin at the end of the world, but... No. She was trying too hard to relate. Renata had no idea at all of what Raye must be feeling: there was no "Humans' Gate", as it were. All she could do was hope that Raye would find whatever it was she was looking for in this place.

"Interesting." She nodded in response to Raye's description of Nergal. "Well, here's hoping he's long gone. If he's the leader of those creatures— What the blazes?!"

Tiras had just shambled past them.

"Sir Tiras!" Renata hastened to catch up to the ambling squire. "What are you doing? Have you gone mad?!" When she received no response, Renata attempted to grab him by the arm only to find herself shrugged off effortlessly. His unnaturally steady gait wasn't marred in the slightest. She looked back to Raye, Lennox, and the ruined keep, then back to Tiras again, and decided to follow him. If she lost track of her other comrades, she could double back to the keep to potentially meet up with them again, but she wasn't about to let one disappear into the night with no questions asked. She stumbled upon uneven ground and struggled to keep up until her feet found the path that Tiras had already made... then he spoke a name. "Who is that?"

He's just sleepwalking. Just sleepwalking...