“I don’t understand why you’re in such a hurry about this… The ring has been in the high priest’s hands for years now. It’s not going anywhere,” Storm Dream said, with no small amount of exasperation. “But fine. The other option is to try and ally yourself with the nearby rival sulrothum tribe. I’m not entirely sure, but I think he would come out of the ziggurat and support his warriors if he thought it was a rival tribe attacking them instead of scary human mages with their unfair, mysterious magic and thunder sticks.”
“Ah,” Zorian said, nodding. The thought of seeing if the tribe had any local enemies and allying with them had honestly not even occurred to him. A silly mistake, in retrospect.
Zach and Zorian discussed the merits of the idea for a while, before Zorian noticed that Sto
