And so, as was typical of her routine, she went to bed right after the bar closed. Tucked away, the gem glowed red in the old cabin behind the bar, where Haelia sleeped. She awoke later that night to a series of small noises, as she was a light sleeper. Was that a noise? She thought. A clunk came from the bar. Something was being thrown, or searched. Her heart began pumping harder. Oh gods, she thought!
She quietly climbed off her bed. She listened to the noises, trying to separate them out. She gasped, there must be at least four separate noises from her bar. Four men, she thought. Four thieves!
She thought of escaping, but her cabin was connected to her bar, and there was no way out of her cabin without going through her bar. "Oh, alymsivi!" She said, and then she thought of a daring escape plan. An amulet of alymsivi intervention was on top of her counter. If only she could get there she could whisk away without getting caught.
She carefully edged before the door, and peered to see where the thieves were. She listened quietly, and when there was no one directly in front of her, she let the door open. Slowly! She cried, but the door made a creak. The sounds stopped and all eyes must have looked at her.
Suddenly, many footsteps were moving in the dark.
Haelia scrambled for the counter, reaching for the intervention. She could hear the footsteps near, and a dark shadow was descending on her nearby. She ran her hands on the counter, knocking glass and bottles of exquisite flin. Hands were on her when she finally caught it. "Got it!" She said. She put it to her heard and whispered, "Rescue me! Alymsivi!"
Suddenly, the scene changed from her dark bar to a candlelit oval room near the temple of azura's awakening. There was a person nearby.