Chapter 87: Setting Out

• Alan did his best to calm himself back down after leaving the Skulls main base along with Stone and Hemlock. He immediately left the Skulls stifling base went back to his Nest to perch above the city and let the chilly wind cool his nervous hot body. The rapid change in pace from doing nothing to suddenly having an Earth-shattering prophecy to fulfill tossed onto his shoulders, was nearly mentally overwhelming.
• Naturally, Ashen One and Wind Talker had also had to come along with them. Though Alan didn’t like the thought of Lady Cassandra’s dogs seemingly keeping tabs on him, he couldn’t turn them away. Though their russet cloaks hid them well Alan guessed from their appearance and stature that they matched him, if not surpassed him, in strength. Until now he only thought that the Hands and Eyes were the strongest members in the Skull. Now it seemed there were more powerful people among them and he did not like that.
• "So, I got to go convince the lunatic Sun People to come and join with us to fight a Twisted hoard?" Alan said talking to himself out loud while looking at the ground far below. "Why the Sun People? They live in the walls of the Grand Canyon and canyons to its north, covered in mud while eating God knows what out of the river. Bunch of savages."