Theus fled from Great Forks - he fled from the guards chasing after him, and the job with the memory stones, as well as his friends. Most painfully, he fled from Coriae, the fascinating daughter of the ancient house of nobility that had befriended him. He thought that he had a straight-forward path to escape the city - take a ship, work on a barge, voyage away from Great Forks, and when the troubles had passed, he planned to return to all that he...