[ there's a soft noise of approval at the thought of pike smashing through hoards of undead. not a pleasant memory, but certainly a welcome one, at the time. pike comes in clutch, time and time again.

as they move forward, toward the castle, percy loses himself in thought again. tracking through what they had been doing in whitestone, earlier that day . . . ]

It makes no sense that we were taken without them, without anyone else noticing. They must have separated us. Most of Vox Machina was in Whitestone.

[ with some rare exceptions. scanlan is, indeed, still a sore subject. ]

Why only take us? It isn't as if the rest of them weren't as affected by what happened here.