Teor Pridesire

Talcydimir “Cyd” Pridesire is Teor Pridesire’s younger brother.

Azune tells Occtis that Teor’s brother Cyd was supposed to help with the rescue but has not been seen by Teor since his return.

Azune asks Teor whether he wants answers and tells him to meet outside in five minutes, where Azune may be able to lead him to them.

Azune, Occtis, and Teor meet outside the Fang home. Occtis confirms that he knows the house where Thimble was working, and the three depart through Dol-Makjar as rain begins to fall.

Azune, Occtis, and Teor enter the Tanners as rain begins to fall. The district is filled with the smell of curing leather and macerating flesh from its many tanneries.

Azune leads the group to a wall marked with the name Ograhmson Leather Tannery. He knows that the letter S conceals the entrance to Thimble’s hidden apartment.

Before entering the hideout, Azune warns Teor that Thimble may be in danger and that some part of the rescue plan may have gone badly wrong.

Teor notices fresh blood beneath the hinge of the secret door. Someone has attempted to clean it away hastily.

The investigators find a large amount of blood descending the hidden staircase. The marks strongly suggest that one or more bodies were dragged out of the hideout.

The concealed apartment has been violently searched. Its door is shattered, papers are soaked in blood, the mattress has been cut open, and a broken mirror and overturned furnishings show that a serious struggle occurred.

The investigators recognise Thjazi’s handiwork throughout the concealed apartment. He had transformed part of the tannery into the secret hiding place, although much of his work has now been damaged.

Teor detects the familiar scent of honeysuckle and notices a dim, otherworldly light fading near a drainage grate in the stone floor.

Teor clears the furniture from a narrow drainage grate and discovers Thimble lying unconscious within a space only someone of her tiny size could enter.

Thimble is a four-inch-tall pixie with short brown hair who appears older than Teor remembers. Her dark-green clothes are tattered, her normally bright spring-green wings are muted, one wing is bent, and she lies unconscious with her needle swords scattered beyond her reach.

A small ceramic rune lies concealed beside Thimble inside the drainage grate. It is small enough to have been slid through the narrow opening with her.

Teor remembers Thimble as Thjazi’s constant partner in crime, adventure, war, and heroism. Wherever one travelled, the other was usually beside them.

Ignoring his own safety, Teor forces his claws through the narrow stone grate, skins his knuckles, and tears the obstruction from the floor to reach Thimble.

Teor channels divine radiance through his claw and into Thimble’s chest, healing her wounds and pulling her back from the edge of death.

Thimble’s fading light returns and she regains consciousness, immediately recognising Teor beside her.

Upon seeing the ceramic glyph beside her, Thimble insists that she must still deliver it to Thjazi, unaware that the execution has already occurred.

Azune, Occtis, and Teor tell Thimble that the rescue failed and Thjazi has been executed. Thimble realises that night has fallen and breaks down because she never had the chance to say goodbye.

Thimble says that people entered the hideout and attacked her before she could deliver the glyph. She is immediately disturbed by the question of how they knew about the plan.

Because the genuine escape glyph remains with Thimble, Azune concludes that a different object carrying the same magical signatures must still be concealed upon Thjazi’s body. The investigators decide that they need to return to the Fang home.

An imposing figure appears in the entrance to Thimble’s hideout. Occtis does not recognise him, but Thimble, Teor, and Azune immediately know the man as Kattigan Vale.

Kattigan’s imposing entrance is weakened when he stumbles against the doorway, revealing that he has been drinking. Recovering quickly, he jokes that he expected a funeral rather than a reunion.

Teor recognises Kattigan as someone he has not seen for approximately ten or fifteen years. The two greet one another with familiar insults and affection.

After the execution, Kattigan follows Teor and the others to the Fang home. He considers entering the Farramh but turns away when the gathering grows louder and more celebratory. When the investigators emerge, he follows them instead.

While introducing Kattigan to Occtis, Thimble explains that Kattigan abandoned their old companions after a battle. Teor nevertheless describes him as a fierce warrior and a good man.

After learning that Thjazi’s body is at Halandil’s home, Thimble tearfully asks the others to take her there.

With her retirement approaching, Loza recommends Teor to Wicander as a loyal, shrewd, and capable guardian who has served noble houses and causes throughout Pasitar and other realms.

Wicander offers to make arrangements to employ Teor himself or to seek a place for him through House Halovar. Loza agrees to call upon him at Villa Aurora after the funeral.