Papashan is in dire need of your assistance.
Papashan: Marion, I have just this moment─ No! No, the time for concealment is past! The truth is, even before I had you deliver those pretzels, I was privy to some most unsettling news!
Papashan: …Which is the real reason I sent you to meet those Sultansworn.
Papashan: A young noblewoman from a very prestigious family has run away from home, and I have been ordered to see to her safe return.
Papashan: The Sultansworn you met earlier are assisting with the search. Alas, it seems they have found no trace of her.
Papashan: I apologize for not being frank with you from the start, but we must proceed with caution─should word of her disappearance spread, I fear others with less honorable motives may join the hunt.
Papashan: And should we allow her to come to any harm, not even a hundred beheadings would be punishment enough…
Papashan: That cannot happen, Marion. It must not!
Papashan: I need you to help me find her!
Papashan: Praise the Twelve, I knew I could count on you!
Papashan: I’ve instructed the others to expand the search, but Thanalan is vast and there are only so many of us.
Papashan: The young noblewoman’s name is Lady Lilira. I want you to go south and look for her in the vicinity of the Sultantree. Good luck!
Hooded Lalafell: O Sultantree…
Lilira: O Sultantree, hallowed spirit of my line, forgive my weakness. My failings have cost us dear…
Lilira: Show yourself!
???: As you command, O Lilira.
???: Forgive my selfish desire to assure your welfare.
Lilira: I don’t recall requesting an escort! Simply pretend we never met and continue on your way.
???: We both know I can do no such thing. It isn’t safe for you here alone.
???: It isn’t safe for anyone─not with this aetheric disturbance… It’s as though the dead are watching us…
???: And I’d prefer not to join them, if it’s all the same to you.
???: Ah, you must be the one that Papashan mentioned. Congratulations on finding our elusive young charge.
???: You’ll have to forgive Her Impetuousness. What she lacks in discipline, she makes up for in stubbornness.
???: You should return with us. The stationmaster will be eager to thank Lady Lilira’s protector in person.
???: Alas, the stationmaster will have to wait.
???: Dear Lilira, for my sake, please stay out of harm’s way.
???: As for you, dear friend─for Lilira’s sake─please stay in harm’s way!
???: Ah, coming around now.
Lilira: Would you mind telling me what that was?
???: If I only knew. A denizen of the void, at any rate.
Lilira: The voidsent? Here? But how?
???: The question isn’t “how,” but “who”─we’re not dealing with bookless bandits.
???: Don’t suppose the answer came to you in a dream?
???: No sooner did you fell the beast than you fell asleep. Too much aether, no doubt.
???: Interesting… I hadn’t considered the Crystal.
???: But of course… This changes everything.
???: Hm? Oh, just thinking aloud. At any rate, we haven’t a moment to spare. I must return and report this at once.
???: I leave Lady Lilira in your capable hands!
Lilira: How dare you pass me about like a swaddled babe!
Lilira: I shall return and tell them myself!
???: As you wish, Your Impetuousness.
???: I suspect we shall meet again before long.
???: Until then, do try and stay awake!
Papashan: Thank the gods you’ve returned! You had us all so worried!
Papashan: You do realize what would happen if a person of your noble stature were to be injured─or worse?
Papashan: Why, Her Grace the sultana would be beside herself with grief─and so would her subjects! I daresay they’d be weeping in the streets!
Lilira: But I have already given you cause to weep, Papashan…you and the people of Ul’dah…
Papashan: Please, Your─ You’re not to say such things! We will find it, I swear to you!
Papashan: It is not my place to make demands, m-my lady, but I beg you, please stay out of harm’s way.
Lilira: …I apologize for causing you undue worry, Papashan. I shall refrain from traveling unescorted in future.
Papashan: I cannot thank you enough, Marion!
Papashan: I understand you fought bravely to protect Lady Lilira from voidsent fiends.
Papashan: For your gallant service, you deserve all the riches in the royal vaults. Alas, a small token of my gratitude is the best I can offer.
Papashan: …Hm? A sarcastic man with a strange contraption strapped to his shoulder?
Papashan: I see you met Thancred. He’s a scholar who spends his days investigating oddities in the aether. Rather too fond of the sound of his own voice for my liking, but perfectly harmless.
Papashan: As for you, Marion─you’re just the sort of adventurer we need around here.
Papashan: I pray you show the same kindness to the people of Thanalan as you did to us today.
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