# [[Case 3 - The Sea's Bargain]]
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*Objective:*
*Quest Giver:* [[Lightkeeper Fahra Slate]]
*Reward:*
## Summary
## The Case
### The message
> [!abstract] The Sea's Bargain
> Tarrin Bellweather’s longtime mentor, the Lightkeeper Fahra Slate of Seasway, has sent her an urgent, mysterious message, using the encryption code they shared when Tarrin was a child, hidden in an otherwise innocuous letter:
>
> *Come home as soon as you can.*
>
> *Don’t tell anyone.*
>
> *It’s a good thing you have all that official Candela training now.*
>
> *You’re going to need it.*
### Cold open
> [!tip] Cold open
> It’s a dark and stormy night.
>
> The full moon only peeks fitfully out from behind the clouds, providing brief illumination to the beach in front of the Seasway lighthouse.
>
> There’s a wooden beach chair nestled in the sand near the start of the hills, and you would be forgiven for assuming it empty. But no: a woman lies there, almost motionless, bundled up in a heavy sweater and a thick wool cap. A few strands of white wispy hair have escaped the cap, and flutter wildly in the heavy wind.
>
> You might assume she sleeps. But no: her eyes scan the gloomy shore, the cresting waves, intensely. She is watching for something.
>
> Minutes pass, hours. Still she watches. And just before dawn, her vigilance is rewarded. Amidst the regular crashing of waves — a splash. Off to her right. Clumsy splashing. A small body. A child. A boy. Stumbling out of the surf onto the beach.
>
> Though he staggers, he does not fall. Step after step, he navigates the sands, till he finds the footpath leading up to the village. You might assume the woman waits for him. But no: she watches him go, but does not call to him, does not help him. When he is gone, she shivers, her first such gesture of the night.
>
> She gets up, folds up her chair, and goes back to the lighthouse for some well-deserved rest.
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