The Maki Roll - Session 5

What a day. Mulled some things over in the morning. Got some errands with the group and got myself a bag and bedroll. Also got myself a little hand crossbow. Guy who runs the potion shop needed some myrtle and gave us 20 gold to get it. I found the first bush but clearly I need to work on my harvesting skills because gods did I ruin that poor plant. Second bush i found I didn't totally fuck up and managed to get some usable branches from. For our speedy delivery the shopkeeper gave us a potion of courage that we pushed to Irene, probably because she keeps freezing up. We only got outside the town because Lysander persuaded the guard that we weren't going far. I mean we didn't and we came back, but like, it shouldn't be that easy for us to just leave the town. If that's all it takes then maybe this "stay in town" order isn't all that confining. I'll keep that in mind if I need to leave in a hurry. Then we went to the old stok tavern to get dinner and relax for a bit.
 
Hey, whoever is reading this after I died, I survived. At least through the initial act.
 
Things around the table were awkward to say the least. Yeah we got through the errands and the quick job fine but that's because we had something to focus on. Tried some small talk for a bit but it clearly wasn't great. Couldn't take my mind off of what I was about to do and hells was it a stupid idea. I got Irene into a private little chat and uh, she really doesn't want to talk about what happened. Not surprised about that after last night though and I came prepared. So I probed into her mind a little. Got to see her surface thoughts pretty easy and saw a bit of what happened. It wasn't much and definitely needed context that she isn't willing to give soI probed deeper. At least I tried to. She blocked me out and from there things got dicey. She rightfully was angry but ended up storming back to her room before actually hurting me, not for a lack of desire to though.
Then it was the other two's turn to learn what happened between Irene and me. Lyra went to Irene, and Lysander talked to me. It ended up being easier, in the short term, to just show him what I did. So I probed his mind too. He blocked me out same as Irene when I tried to probe, but changed his mind. He asked me if I thought I could handle seeing his past, I thought I could. So I tried again and he let me. I saw what he did and uh, yeah, he definitely did some fucked up things. Not gonna go into detail but wow, there was more but it wasn't time to look into that yet. Then Lyra came out and talked to me. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I couldn't probe into any more minds so Lyra's thoughts remain unseen.
 
Lots to think about. Gonna be a while until Irene stops being mad at me, probably longer if I keep up with my shit. Might have to keep someone around when I try it again. Lysander maybe?