While Xere and the others traveled around Eorzea looking for their leader some members of Haven had other plans. On the second floor of Lunar Haven's castle was a well furnished sun room decorated with red and blue furniture and a large carpet in the middle of the room it was normally used as a meeting room however on this particular afternoon the room was serving a different purpose. Resting in the room were three miqo'te, sprawled out on the furniture and enjoying the sunlight manifesting through the room's various windows.

All three could hear the commotion going on downstairs and as they heard footsteps moving towards them they knew what was about to happen. With the vice guild leader opening the door to the sun room one of the resting miqo'te let out a fierce yawn before stretching and sitting up. Shir'a Zen was a black haired male who often dressed in a similar fashion compared to Pharais. His trademark ruby lensed glasses moved up to his forehead, he squinted a bit as his light sensitive eyes adjusted to the brightness of the room. Glancing over at a nearby couch Shir'a gazed at the woman curled up upon it, currently covered in sunlight, a low purr escaping her lips.

"Sua," Shir'a said simply stirring the thin cat girl known by Suaco Linath out of her slumbering state. Suaco had pale skin yet possessed incredibly toned muscles. While clearly a creature of comfort her body also had a fair share of scars. Yawning a bit the woman sat up as well to gaze up at Xere.

"Oh, hey." Sua said simply, rubbing her eyes a bit with the sleeve of the large cotton shirt and pants she often wore when resting. Her usual battle armor currently resided downstairs in her personal room. As Shir'a then opened his mouth to wake the third member of their triumvirate. A young miqo'te with skin as dark as night and silver hair as white as a full moon, known to her companions as Ves Grey, raised her hand, flat palmed and facing Shir'a to stop him from yelling. Ves then sat up and gazed up at Xerelia.

"Nobu is missing right?" Ves asked, scratching the back of her ears, her right teal green hue gazed up sleepily at their company's second in command while a cloth eye patch covered her left purple hue. Xerelia nodded in response. The three miqo'te seemed lazy at the moment but this particular trio often acted as Lunar Haven's information network, handling everything from supply shipment paperwork, to the castle itself, to finding out who the local lords in Doma wanted killed and when.

Shir'a stood up, scratching his chin. He gave a decidedly gloomy look, "I noticed he hadn't been around for a bit, and it's weird for him to vanish in the middle of the week... Unfortunately though I haven't heard anything."

As though to offer some relief to the situation Sua chimed in, "You know, if Nobu did rush off somewhere he probably hasn't been there before, so he probably couldn't teleport. Why not ask a boat operator in Limsa or Kugane?" Ves nodded in agreement as Xere pondered the idea for moment.

"It is worth checking out. Can I leave it to you three?" Xere inquired.

"I don't see why not," Shira answered as Ves and Suaco nodded along in agreement.

"Give us a chance to change first and we'll see what we can do." Suaco offered as she grabbed some fresh clothes from a nearby armoire while also tossing some less casual clothes to Ves. It didn't take long for both to change as Xere headed downstairs. They didn't need to go out the front door since all three knew how to teleport all around Eorzea. They had their mission and already knew what needed to be done.

"I'll check the docks here with Sua. Ves why don't you head off to Limsa and search for him there?" At Shira's orders Ves and Sua nodded, and all three began floating and glowing. Their consciousness shifting, followed by their bodies, to their desired locations.

Ves was the first to arrive. All around her she could hear merchants trading and shouting about their goods. In the distance seagulls bothered sailors on large boats for scraps of food and particularly shiny coins. The series of slurs leaving the sailors' mouths failed to escape her ears and brought a mischievous grin to her face, recalling a time when she had been on the receiving end of many of those same curses. Although it was good to visit her old home again she wasn't here for that now. Near the far end of the merchant's area named Hawker's Alley in Limsa was the Arcanist guild. It was the guild's job to inspect all items going in and out of the city. Often enough it was this guild was also tasked with checking the travel itineraries of the various ships that came and went from the city's port. Walking up to the nearest counter, a rather large Roegadyn getting in line behind her, Ves looked at the tiny lalafell on the stool.

"Excuse me! I was hoping you might be able to help me find a friend of mine: Nobutaka Fairclough? Do you know if he's been through, lately?" She asked with a polite smile, though cutting straight to the matter at hand as she flashed her Haven emblem - a golden bird traveling over a blue sky towards the horizon. Haven's members were well known in Limsa, and the lalafell's widening eyes only served to further highlight that fact.

"Wow, a member of Haven!" The lalafell looked young, likely only recently promoted to work at the counter. The small aid stood tapping his foot for a bit thinking before finally shrugging and giving up. "I've never met him, or seen him. Not even in travel logs really. Just stories from my parents about Haven's exploits!," the lalafell cheered. Ves couldn't help but flush at the implied compliment, but nodded with another warm smile in thanks and waved her surprise at the lalafell's excitement aside.

"I don't know that we're all that special. Really, we're just like everyone else; just trying to do our best. Anyway, thanks for your time!" She said as she excused herself. Limsa was a dead end, at least for now, and raising a hand to her ear Ves was the first to report that Nobu was still missing.

Meanwhile Shir'a and Suaco had teleported to the docks at the front of the housing area. As Ves reported in Sua tapped her foot a bit and looked around. "If Nobu was in a hurry, he wouldn't go all the way to Doma to get a boat. He would just get on one as quick as possible and take off right?" Sua offered. Shir'a looked around but it was hard to tell what boats had gone missing, if any even had. As the two looked around one of the merchant's near the dock yelled at them and waved them over.

"HEY! HEY OVER HERE! EXCUSE ME!" The merchant beckoned. Shir'a and Sua looked to one another uncertain about the request but decided to follow it nonetheless. Approaching the merchant Shir'a gazed at the stall's goods. Apparently it was a merchant who sold various small housing goods for adventurers living in the area. "You guys are looking for Nobutaka Fairclough right?" The merchant asked.

Shir'a nodded, "He is missing. Have you seen him by chance?"

The merchant looked up at the roof of his stall for a moment before giving the pair an odd look. "Well, you know. I heard about two nights ago he was acting strange... He was running towards the docks like a bat out of hell he was. One of the sailors said he summoned a large airship and just took off towards the Southwest! Some big pink ship!," the merchant exclaimed. Both looked at one another with a sense of dread. They knew exactly what had happened.

Back at the castle Xere's face had turned dour. "Alagh, please go check how many ariships we have."

The request made it easy for the others to adopt a similarly unhappy face as Alagh went into the guild's workshop and checked on the ships. A few minutes later she came out with her arms crossed.

"One airship missing."

Every Free Company had airships for transportation that they often used to reach distant lands and gather rare crafting materials. It was common for the airships to be deployed on missions, but at present all ships had been brought in for upgrades and repairs. The fact that one was missing made it clear how Nobu had managed to move from the housing area to the Southern Seas so quickly, if that was in fact where he had gone. Xerelia called on Ves, Shir'a, and Suaco to return to the castle, pacing a bit as she thought of what to do next.

"We can check general destinations of the airships right?" Ritsuko offered.

"Yes, but that doesn't tell us why, or which island." Alagh replied.

As tension rose on the main floor the doors of the castle burst open as a triumphant looking Valindra walked in. Pharais, Crow, and Luna following closely behind her. She looked proud of herself as she held up arrows freshly crafted from Gardua's razor sharp feathers.
"One more primal down!," she cheered. Though the quartet quickly picked up on the less than positive vibe in the room.

"Still no word from Nobu I take it?" Pharais asked. Standing next to Shir'a it was difficult to tell the two apart save for Shir'a's cat ears and lack of stylish goatee.

"No. Apparently he took an airship and left to the Southwest." Dartmoor replied.

As the assembled Free Company members began discussing what it could mean Tick, one of the Free Company's merchants, spoke up. "You know, I did see a strange letter on his desk a few nights ago, and some maps!" The lalafell then gazed towards the door that seperated the guild's private chambers from the rest of the castle.

"Yeah, it was a gold and black letter!" Tock added.

The assembled guild members moved towards Nobutaka's private chamber only to find the door locked. Behind them the guild's merchants gazing on as Xere tried the handle twice. As the door didn't move the Free Company's blacksmith began reaching into his robes to try and help, but before he could say anything Valindra's body glowed as her armor set changed. With a fierce battle cry the large axe Valindra was now carrying slammed hard into the wooden door, demolishing it in a single blow. The assembled guild members looked at her in shock, the guild's merchants doing the same as the old blacksmith finally spoke up.

"You...know we have a key….right?" he asked slowly.

Valindra put the axe back on her shoulder, "This is an emergency!," she proudly declared.

"She didn't know you had a key." Crow responded.

As the group entered Nobutaka's private chambers the familiar, dreamy music played. Nobu had turned his private bedroom into both a bedroom and office. Split by a dividing wall the front part of the room had a large desk and various bookshelves as well as a table with chairs on either side. While the back of the room had beds not only for Nobu himself but for the guild's merchants as well, in case for some reason they needed to rest at the Free Company's castle for the evening.

Approaching Nobu's desk Ritsuko picked up the letter in question. It appeared to be handwritten and the envelope it had come in was addressed specifically to Nobutaka. The paper was black and gold but the envelope for the letter appeared to be dirty and tattered. Picking up the letter and giving it a once over Ritsuko gave a loud gasp, dropping the letter with Xerelia quickly catching it. Reading the letter Xere looked just as shocked as Ritsuko had, before her face turned to a decided frown. Passing the letter around Pharais read it aloud.

"Nobu,
I don't have long to write this and I hope it reaches you. I can only hope you get this. I have been on an island in the Southern Seas for the past six months. A group of scholars from Sharlayan found a powerful machine on the island and I ended up being their guardian. I don't think they are Sharlayan's though. Something strange is happening on the island. People are going missing, and the entire island smells like blood. The storms we have are too fierce and the people in charge of the investigation don't seem right. Please hurry. I need you to come as fast as you can. I'm sure they want to kill me and I can't teleport back home. Please, hurry! I've included a map to the island!

-Sapphire Gemlock"

In response Ves cocked her head sideways. "Wait, Sapphire is on an island, and managed to send a letter in a nice envelope, but somehow couldn't slip away long enough to just leave? That doesn't make sense." Ves said.

"I'm also not sure this is Sapphire's handwriting." Dartmoor added as the group gazed at Nobu's desk to see a map he had left behind as well as a clear route to the island Sapphire had mentioned.

"It is Sapphire though. I'm sure the moment Nobu saw her name he took off without thinking." Valindra said, shaking her head. Both Crow and Pharais nodded in agreement as Xere took the letter back, examining it again.

"Nobu, why didn't you tell anyone? Why go alone?" She knew the answer of course.

Xerelia took the time to inform the other guild members of her meeting with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and the rumors swirling around the Southern Seas. Raising her hand to her ear she activated the Link Pearl for the entire guild.

"Nyssa, Yurika, and any other available senior guild members please come to the castle at once. We've found Nobu. We need to go save him."