A few weeks had passed since the retreat in Cormanthyr and Dairan's disappearance to climes unknown with four dead bodies and one unconscious mage. Most of the team—those who did not live in Battledale, at any rate—had left to visit their homes and families, and, in the absence of the group's two leaders, to take news of the deceased to their families. The decrepit house that the team had bought as a base stood empty, save for the few people who hadn't wanted to leave—or simply had nowhere to go.

Tiressei had been one of those people.