In Bloom
After meandering back into the Shining Wastes, i happened upon an older Tenakth woman, Derikka, and her granddaughter Teikka. Derikka is reminiscing about the flowers and her old love, an Utaru man named Nilo, and we are tasked with finding his whereabouts with a gift of Scarletstems, Nilo's favorite flower...
Derikka amicably bathes in her wistful nostalgia...
Meanwhile Teikka scoffs with all the sass of any teenager...
We travel to Plainsong only to find out that Nilo had moved to Riverhymn some time ago...
We travel to Riverhymn and find a girl, Jia, kneeling by Nilo's grave, Scarletstems all around. Jia is Nilo's daughter, and says he had died 5 years prior... We must go back to tell Derikka what we found...
We find Derikka and Teikka and tell them what we learned. Derikka takes the news with grace, and at least she gets closure.
I liked this quest; we all probably have these thoughts of "what if" thinking about the different paths our lives could have gone in.
