A Sky Colored in Greys

It's been two weeks since i've arrived here, living here has been great, it was peaceful. I didn't expect the life in Sinkey will be more calming than the one i had in Halseamer.
 
The grandfather priest who accepted me after i did some delivery service was kind too. Even if the temple was small, i do not mind. I keep seeing childrens and other believer walking around, even if i had different beliefs with them, they still accept me.
 
Well, until the last week, i finally saw sir Rusu again! And.... sir Solaru with another new recruits? i never saw her before. But she looks small, ah, but i can't really judge her like that, i'm sure she's strong and tough.
 
"Sky! It's been so long, how are you farring, my dear?"
 
"Ah, it's fine, life in Sinkey is great" i simply replied.
 
They were here to ask for some information regarding that owl-marked coins again, ask me if i can decipher them entirely now. Before that, i asked the priest to excuse myself to talk with them, he was nice, greeted us while wishing for save travels.
 
Once we've found a place, we're in this secluded narrow space with house of bricks.
 
Ah... I saw a familiar face again approaching us. Sir Tamar is here? really? I thought he would change even in the span of two weeks but well, miracles don't happen as often as my magic spells.
 
And it pissed me of when i know he actually sold a pict of me in those maid dress?! Had i not enough when sir Oscar dress me up as a manequin?! Goddamn, i swear, the decency. Out of frustration i kicked him with sir Solaru together because we had the same trains of thoughts (surprisingly).
 
Anyway, on that note, sir Rusu asked me to dechyper another code... Hopefully this time it translate to something, let's see....
 
"This is for The-All-Seeing Owl."
What does that mean? from my guess it's a language only those kinds of bandits have known. It's a special thieves can't.
 
And another one was from the dagger.
 
"This is The Handle of The Wolves."
That's what it said on the other handle, because i held my blade backwards compared to shoving it right into their face. The language translates to a place, probably about a big treasure.
 
But we're not looking for that, we don't know what's there and who knows what other enemies will show up, it might not just be the bandit. Fortunately the group agreed and we have to focus on dealing with the bandits and finding their bigger location first.
 
In the meantime, we split up for information searching. I accompanied miss Naon while sir Rusu handle the red light district, sir Tamar and sir Solaru returned to the tavern i used to work with before. Well, i had bitter memories working there because my face are not that friendly.
 
I saw kids running around the streets.
 
They asked if we wanted to play but we offered to buy them some breads instead for them to eat, i pity this children.....
 
It reminds me of that time.
 
If i wasn't so lucky and miss Estrella hadn't picked me up or even meet me at that place, maybe..... I would end up the same.  But that's another story to tell, I don't really like remembering the time i was but a child.
 
Well, maybe i still am.
 
I had a hard time with children because i'm never good with them, but miss Naon reassured me and she gave me a push. Well, i get what she's trying to do even without her telling me, and i'm glad for that.
 
The children's said i smiled genuinely, did i? i didn't noticed it.
 
But they become more welcoming now and asked if we can stay.
 
While we were busy snacking on breads and chattering among the street childrens, they gave us an information on how the temples around Sinkey have so many beliefs, and the one i was staying in.... Apparently had another branch of belief. I believe the temple i stayed in was called temple of Perchta. So there's a different one?
 
On another note, the kids also said something about the guards and the priest keeping close together, saying how the priest always treat them once in a while. I can assure it's just a money to shut them up. I didn't expect to see that in real life to happen.... Are they related to Guild of Magus....? but i can't downright say that now can i?
 
In any case, we move forward.
 
So we have gathered many information together, sir Solaru being our Navigator and sir Rusu handle the bribing for information. All good, we got a location for this other sect we should inspect.
 
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After that, daylight comes.
 
We decided to split up, as agreed, sir Tamar, sir Rusu and miss Naon can be the frontline and disguise themselves as a newcoming follower. Meanwhile me and sir Solaru handle the infiltration from the outside, hopefully that can gather us some time for us to get huge amount of information.
 
While we were sneaking around... Well, i didn't expect it would go smoothly, sir Tamar has his ways but i don't trust the way that person handle things, despite it being working.
 
"Are you sure it's there? Nothing looks odd for now..." sir Solaru asked when i was still at the front.
 
"hmm.... Let's search somewhere else, maybe the back entrance."
 
We did go there and there was nothing.
 
We walked almost circling the entire place, and then we saw miss Naon payed too much attention to sir Tamar that she missed that there was a conversation that might be useful, me and sir Solaru tried hard to call her from outside the window, hopefully she noticed (she didn't, but good attempt regardless.)
 
we thought the church had a symmetrical outline but there was this one room that's different, there wasn't one on the other side of the building, i asked that we should investigate the case, well, we got distracted for a little bit looking at the side of the window and saw...
 
Looked like sir Tamar and sir Rusu getting married? atleast that's what sir Solaru said, that's stupid.
 
..... I miss my dear now, but that's not the time.
 
"......... Sir Solaru, i suggest we pick up the pace and move upwards."
 
"Yeah, after that we should make a report of two guildmembers getting married."
 
What the hell are you suggesting?
 
Anyway! Sir Solaru used his.... Device? it looked like a shortbow being modified using a rope and metal, that's so cool, never had one of those before. Looks expensive as well, it can grapple the rooftop of the room real quick too, that's amazing!
 
..... Moving on, sorry for the small rant.
 
I didn't use it so i just jumped swiftly and catapulted myself upwards, we were now on the roof, taking out our tools so we can snuck inside from the roof without making quite a sound, it worked and we are in!
 
..... This is.... An archives room? there's so many scrolls and big.... Map?
 
Huh, a map of Sinkey?
That, that shouldn't exist though, right....?
If i'm not mistaken, it's taboo for them making a map of the city, probably from their religious views and such, but it exist... Here? and it's huge, why does the church own this map?
 
Sir Solaru pointed out something that the map indicated places near the tavern where Sky used to work and places around the temple where i... stayed? what is this.... Are they targeting me?
 
I swiftly asked sir Solaru to memorize the map and drawn them from memory later, while scouring for another things that might be a clue, i found another two of those owl coin.
 
"Three black tabaxi."
 
........
 
I had my doubts, but now it's even more clear now.
 
It's nothing but bad feelings as i try to dechyper it, i know i was not a person with good karma, i had my wrong doings... bad deeds, i had to think of what was actually happening. I remember we do have other tabaxi besides me in the tavern, is it them? it could be anyone, the world is huge.
 
Time's up, we had to go real fast.
 
sir Solaru pulled me using his grappling device so we can make our escape, we made it on time despite the hurdles... I was scared that i wasn't light enough to carry actually, but it happened anyway so there's that.
 
And to that, we scrammed, spread ourselves around Sinkey so we don't look suspicious to the guards later once we grouped. There are so many informations we need to share and honestly.....
 
..... I don't think it's wise for me to stay here much longer.
 
I wanted to find a place where i belong but why is it so hard? It's not here, if i were to stay here permanently, i might just endanger the priest and other childrens and followers back at the temple. I don't want that, their safety is my priority and i cannot risk it.
 
Don't let it happen again, Sky.
 
As we grouped again, we share stuff we found and gotten from that shady cathedral, i shared mine a lot and the rest follows.... There was another dagger found and i, once again, trying to translate it with my half-baked Thieves language.
 
"...Ashen's Fang..."
 
Now this is a name i never heard of, who the heck is this? Is it the name of another organisation? an alias? so many possibilities running inside my mind.
Yeah, even sir Rusu asked me if i want to go back to Halseamer after all just happened, without a doubt... I nodded. That's for the best, it's not my time yet.
 
I remember what my dear said to me, i cannot rush things, a journey takes a lifetime to experience.
 
And so, we go back. It was almost dawn anyway so might as well. Before we got into the wagon, sir Rusu... I guess he noticed my face looking all wary and anxious. He shattered my nervousness.
 
"Oh, right, Sky, my dear... I have something for you."
 
"Hm?"
 
As he scurried inside his robe, he.... Gave me a charm?
 
"I wanted to give this to you but since you were in Sinkey, i could not... So now is the time, it's from Hirai, by the way! A charm of sort." He simply smiled.
 
..... I, I thought sir Hirai might have forgotten about me, turns out he hasn't. Even going as far as giving me this? honestly. I worried too much about finding a place where i belong, but look at them, giving me this much space to accept me.
 
After that, sir Rusu just gently pat my head, he's really good at reading emotions, huh?
 
With that said, the wagon ride arrives and we make our way to Halseamer again after i left the place for two weeks. I already said my goodbyes to the priest who offered me a place though, he welcomed me.... Telling me if i come back, i can stay there, it's odd.
 
Hahah, but i can't help but to smile at the thought.
 
As the sun sinked deep into the horizon, i finally returned, my journey to find a place.... Has just started.