Lenna slowly straightened and opened her eyes to stare at the moonlight held in place before them. "My goddess." Lenna greeted the goddess of the moon and beauty in almost all of its forms.

Isaac gave the moonlight a bow. "Lua, thank you for meeting with us." He said to the goddess and then straightened. The pair felt the goddess smile upon them even though they couldn't see her.

"You wish to ask if I could help your wish be granted." Lua told Isaac and Lenna. "I have already done that. The thing with Fate is that I am only half of the moon. When I made a deal, both of us had to pay for it. In this way, both of us owed Fate a favor for helping you. Lady Luck will still have her say in the final matter, but all that can be done for you, has already been done." The goddess explained. "You need only make the Wish and hope for a good outcome. I believe that no matter what happens, it will not end outright poorly for either of you."

"Wow, uh, thank you." Isaac replied. "You really have been busy. The Reaper mentioned favors being repaid when he arrived but I hadn't expected it to be for us, so, um, thank you."

Lua laughed like the tinkling of a curtain made of glass beads and a brook in a secluded glade. "Oh, that favor was not for you, yours has already been paid for and is yet to be paid." She explained. "Think not of it, child, for the realms of deities and our personal deals should not concern you, or anyone else not at least a complete god or goddess." She told him like an adult telling a child not to worry about adult problems like money and relationship drama.

Isaac wasn't entirely sure how to respond but luckily he was not alone. "Thank you, again, for your unending care and I apologize for how much of it we have needed." Lenna jumped in with a slightly lowered head.

"Lenna," Lua said admonishingly. "The younger gods may have a harder time interacting with mortals, but we all wish only the best for our followers and worshipers. You give us power in the form of your prayers and worship, it is only fitting that we spend at least most of it to help you in return. Those who do not give back to those who feed them, soon find themselves lost and forgotten by all save for a fanatical few. Be thankful for our assistance, yes, but do not apologize for requesting or requiring it."

Lenna nodded. "I will try, my goddess." She told Lua but they both knew that it would take a long time, from a mortal perspective, for Lenna to actually stop feeling bad for asking for help from the divine being.

Lua's smile bathed them both again and they felt her focus settle back onto Isaac. "The goddess known to you as El'No, requested that I inform you that you need to keep your ring's magic disengaged for the next little while." She told him. "I feel as though something bad has happened, or will happen, but I do not know what or where other than that it somehow pertains to some of my lost children."

Isaac's eyes widened in surprise and worry. He looked at Lenna for approval and she easily nodded her assent. Isaac took off his wedding ring and put it in his Inventory for safe keeping. He immediately felt like someone was watching him. Lua's focus shifted away from both of them for a moment and then the feeling of being watched vanished from Isaac. When her focus returned to him, both he and Lenna felt the goddess nod once as if to say that they were finished with their conversation.

"Thank you, for the message and warning." Isaac told the goddess and felt her smile.

"And thank you, again, for the assistance." Lenna added.

"Be well, children. I will continue to watch over you, tomorrow night especially." She told them and then her presence vanished along with the frozen beam of moonlight.

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Isaac looked at Lenna with some worry clear in his features. "As soon as I took off my ring, someone started watching me. They stopped almost as soon as Lua looked away from us. That combined with her warning and the message has me worried. The fact that it was El'No who wanted her to pass along the message doesn't help my nerves any."

Lenna nodded in agreement with his worries. "There is nothing that we can do at the moment. We have our meeting with Master Su'Sol tomorrow, and then hopefully the wish tomorrow night under the full moon. After that, as soon as we can return, we should, just in case."

"In any case, we should return to our room for the night." Isaac told her. "I don't feel like dealing with the guards with so much already on my mind. Also, we told Lord Ashborne that we wouldn't be out for very long, and if we can squeeze some more meditation in before it is time for the wish, that would be for the best."

Lenna nodded in agreement to all of his points. "How are we going to return?" Lenna wondered. They only really had two ways out of the concert hall and neither were great options. They could either go back the way they had come, where there were probably countless guards waiting to ambush them anyway, or they could just walk out the front door and deal with all the guards in a more normal and potentially less diplomatically disastrous way.

Isaac sighed. "Let's just go out the front door, but as the Lord of Darkness itself and his Lady of Hellfire, not as Isaac and Lenna." He told her and rolled his shoulders.

Lenna nodded and did a quick doublecheck of her gear and his. Everything was in order and she gave him a nod. "Ready." She told him.

Isaac and Lenna walked up to the double doors that marked the end of the concert hall and the beginning of the hallway that connected to the stairs and moving room that connected their floor to all of the others. Isaac reached out with his shadows and opened both doors as they both walked through the threshold and into a room nearly filled with guards.

At the first sign of someone not being entirely polite, which was immediately as one guard reached for his sword, Lenna's aura rolled out from her and death flames blossomed into being inside of Isaac's chest. The expected reactions of soldiers backing away with their hands resting on their weapons happened almost universally save for the three that they pair had encountered already, and one that seemed to be the leader. The leader's armor was the same as the royal guard armor but he had a pair of curved swords on his hips instead of the usual guardsman weapons of short sword, dagger, and potentially a spear.

The three that the duo had dealt with before, moved out of the way and gave the duo a nod of respect as they continued walking forwards through the parting crowd of guards. The leader stepped forwards to block their path and the only warning he got about Isaac's next move was an annoyed glare and a casually raised hand. "Stop." Isaac ordered the shadows inside of the man's armor as the shadows that he had used to open the doors finished dispersing. The maximum level guard was momentarily halted and, with a casual gesture to the side and a word from Isaac, was moved out of the way entirely. "Move." The guard's shadows inside of his armor physically drug him out of the duo's path so they didn't even have to slow down. Once the guard was out of the way, Isaac mentally told the shadows that their job was done and they returned to normal. If he had waited a second longer, the leader would have just forced his way through the shadows. Isaac purposefully relaxed them before the guard could realize that Isaac couldn't actually hold him in place in that manner.

There were some gasps and more shuffling backwards to allow the duo through, but other than that, the guards hadn't dared move under the combined auras of Lenna's broken oath and Isaac's death flames. The threat of instant death was simply more than they were paid to deal with. The fact that the leader hadn't made a fuss about being pushed out of the way like a leaf on a pond, only further informed the normal guards that confronting Isaac and Lenna was a bad idea. The pair walked over to the entrance to the moving room, which was already on their floor because of the guards, and entered it without looking back.

Once inside, with the door closed, both of them relaxed and sighed in relief that it hadn't turned into a huge altercation right there in the hallway. Isaac stopped making his death flames and Lenna let her aura fade back into herself. "Those guards were smart, probably going to get reprimanded, but smart." Lenna commented on how well their escape had gone so far.

Isaac nodded in agreement. "Yes. I expected someone to be stupid, well, someone other than the leader." He told her. A moment later the door opened on the ground floor but no one was visible in the moving room. Isaac and Lenna were covered in his shadow cloak as they walked out into the lobby. There were a few guards stationed there and they all looked at the empty moving room with concern, intrigue, and fear in equal measure.

The pair walked towards the closed front door and Lenna looked at Isaac questioningly. "They'll know when the door opens." She spoke the obvious aloud.

"They would, yes." Isaac replied and threw both doors open for them to walk through. "And any invisibility should have been countered. Now, even if they know it was us, they won't have a clue as to how."

Lenna shrugged. "Anyone with half of a brain will realize that you just have a way around such defenses." She pointed out.

"Sure, but that doesn't stop those with less than half a brain from spreading rumors." Isaac countered. Half of the reason why so few people were really sure about how Isaac worked was the large number of rumors that went from insane to implausible.

The duo returned to their room, gave Lord Ashborne a nod, and then immediately went back to mediating. Isaac hadn't been able to actually have a chat with the ancient elvish bladedancer, but Lenna had made sure to tell Isaac about their earlier conversation. This meant that both men knew of each other enough for a greeting but were not so inclined to waste time on pleasantries. Soon enough, it was morning on the day of the night when the last Fate Weaver would cast his final Wish.

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