Entertaining as it’d be to travel with a celebrity, you’d be on pretty much everyone’s RADAR before, during, and after your trip North!

Not to mention Tzah-Tzie will probably kill her. She’s pulled out that knife of hers for far less! Nope, you’d better just nick this uncertainty in the bud–for all you know Jhairo’s pass will get you… you dunno, a private car or something? Mitaar merch?

“Ey! HEEL, TT! HEEL!”

Good thing Volka’s here to reel her in! While the Skog wrestles the furious fuzzball, you spot a passing guard and flag them down with a few snaps of your fingers and a well-placed ‘yoo-hoo’!

“... You ‘yoo-hoo’in me?” The Gnok grumbles, approaching your entourage with a fresh scowl on his already-surly face!

Yea, you nod, you actually had a question about passes-

“Pssssh… do I LOOK like a guy who knows about PASSES?”

The guard’s sudden animosity takes you by surprise! H-huh? Wha?

“Huuurrr? Whuurrr?” He mocks, putting an emphasis on how silly you totally DON’T sound! “There’s an INFO BOOTH back in the Entry Hall… how bout ya’ scurry back over there with your pet and ask them?”

She’s not your pet, you growl, she’s your… she’s your ‘Special Lady’, okay?! And you don’t want to go back there–you might lose your spot in line!”

Your pleas are deftly ignored as the guard places something in his mouth and lights it up–the acrid smell vaguely familiar… “Sounds like a big heap of ‘Not My Problem’, pal. Guess who’s on his way to his smoke break?”

“Um…” Mutters Volka with a forced smile, “Y-you?”

“Bingo.” The smoke from his lit smoke hits your nostrils and immediately causes them to shrivel up! Wh-what IS that stuff, you gasp!

“MIZWEED,” Sniffs the guard, “Not from around here, are ya?”

“Just ignore ‘im, Rook,” Volka sighs as she struggles to keep a hold on Tzah-Tzie, “We’ll just find another guard.”

“Not on my watch you won’t!” The Guard replies with a wicked grin! “I’ll tell ‘em ta’ steer clear of you all! You’re DOOMED!”

>CONTD.