Well, Cleo... if you hadn't decided to go alone things could have been easier, fuck... even keeping Taurobe would be enough... but I do understand that Varka did need him, so I don't begrudge that... but not at least sending a letter to Shrike and Saphia was stupid.
Yes, I am gonna be salty about that for a few more chapters.
I did remember Palu, but I had forgotten she had said she was going to the central region, but the moment the innkeeper said about a scholar studying plants I knew it was her.
At least they won't have to worry that whoever is guiding them is setting them up for some shit.
But that is only one type of shit... chances that fog is just a little out-of-season bad weather are even lower than the chances of resurrecting Kohaku.