The Air Army remnants still have whatever that disease is as a weapon. Dr. Marcela told me she was close to finishing a vaccine for it, but I don't think she's done yet.

If we're goin' somewhere like that, I don't want any risk of Merric 'n I gettin the choke.

Then we'll need to escort Illos to the Air Nexus. Where is it?

If I remember correctly it's in the mountains in northern Anabel.

But it's not like the other Nexuses where there's some central landmark that's outta nowhere. It's somewhere up there. That's all I know.

Illos might have a better idea, but from what I remember, it's somethin' carved outta one of the mountains.

It's just somewhere up there, and Illos will likely be the only way we'll find it, given the Jewel should lead him there.

Airships don't fly through Anabel's mountains, I don't think. They're too high and the air gets too thin up there to fly safely.

We should be able to get to Anabel. There's a coastal trade route from here we should be able to ride with.

Isn't there a mountain that groups all try to climb in Anabel?

The Whispering Pinnacle. I think it's the beginning of their open season.

We should be able to discreetly head there, under the guise of a priest's pathfinding, and hire guides when we get there to lead us up the mountain.

Providing Illos didn't draw too much attention.

He's pretty quiet, so I don't think he'll draw too much attention to himself. 'Specially if we like, put a hood over him or somethin'.

It's possible we could use the idea of him doin' a pilgrimage, too. We'd probably have an easier time gettin' help to go up there.

At the risk of possibly drawing more attention to ourselves, and letting our enemy know where we are.

And we don't know what's actually up there until we're there. But it's likely our enemy isn't looking for Illos.

Either idea we choose, we'll have to keep our story straight from when we land onward.

We can try to sneak Illos up there, or use his position to our advantage, at the risk of drawing more attention to ourselves.

Hold on. Can we even TALK to Illos about this? We can't talk with anyone outside this room about anything we're talkin' about right now, can we?

I still can. You all took the vow, but as long as I mention it after we leave here, you'd all be able to talk about that.

And it'd just prevent you from telling anyone not here right now what we only talked about here. We can still talk amongst ourselves fine.

Either way, we don't need to choose now. We need to get Illos here, and I can secure passage for us to get to Anabel.

I know I've... said a lot just now. We at least have a plan for moving forward, and we can use Dia's mindlink to communicate anything secret between us, if you want to talk any more about my role.

Let's... try to relax and enjoy what's left of the Festival today, yes? More problems can wait until tomorrow.