The empress looked it over twice before alerting the rest of them. She let out a slow breath, glad to have found it. 

"There's a potion to kill it, but the ingredients are a little strange." She told the others.

"Like what?" Stergis asked.

"Kreskin oil, dragon's root and 2 oz of willow sap." She read it to him straight from the spell book she'd been reading.  

"Between all of us we should be able to get those." Zeta added to the conversation.

"Thank you. I've enjoyed it here." She replied to not just Zeta but all of them. 

Ravenessa  went through some of her own herbs in the next room and found the items she needed for the empress and put them in a large pouch bag for her. Then exiting the back room of magical supplies and walking through the library she handed the bag of magical needs to the empress.

"Here is everything you'll need for the potion." Ravenessa explained.

"Thank you for all of your help. I'm going to take Vamier and get this journey started. I'll send word if it's more than I can handle." Ralvania explained to them. 

Hugging Jim and then the others, the empress instructed the gremlin to follow her. He nodded and thanked the rest of them before following the empress of sorcery.  The two of them left the castle in silence, walking swiftly through the vast woodlands and cut through the village square about an hour later. 

"Pardon me, empress?" He asked in a soft tone.

"Yes, what is it?" She replied in a neutral tone.

"Why are we going into the village?" He asked.

"We're not. We are going through it to get to the other side of the forest to get my dragon." She explained to him.

"Oh, that makes sense." 

"Anymore questions?" She responded.

"No empress." He replied following closely behind her.

                            They walked swiftly through the town square and onto the other side. Ralvania wanted to get this quest moving along. Of course wanting to help the gremlin save his home but she'd also had a great time with her new friends. Once they had got through the village and to Soranto, the dragon was wide awake and glaring at her. 

"Who's this?" He asked.

"Vamier. His land is being threatened by a strange curse." She explained. 

"I suppose we're going to help." Responded the dragon. 

"Of course." 

"Only you would go out for a beer and come back with a quest." Teased the dragon.

"It's not a simple quest, it's a matter of life and death." She explained to him.

"It always is. Where are we going?" He asked.

"To my home, Delpheria." The gremlin answered.

"How did you get here from that far away?" Asked the dragon.

"On foot." Vamier replied.

"Aren't you tired?" 

"Yes but people are dying, I had to." 

"Climb on both of you." Commanded the dragon.

"Yes sir." Replied the gremlin, who climbed up first then the empress.