E1Q2 A Race to the Top

Looking around, you notice how everything seems so neat and new. It's as if the tower was created overnight. Toward the back, you spot a staircase running all the way to the top.

"We have to find the stars, right?" asks Haden. "Maybe we can see them from up there."

Talik immediately shoots down the idea. "It's daylight. Even if you could see the stars from up there, you wouldn't be able to now."

She argues in vain, though, as Haden and  Alster are already racing up the staircase. "She's a little much sometimes, don't you think?" You snort to Talik who definitely seems like the wisest one in the group right now.

"Last one up's a frightened Wazler!" she teases the rest of you. Richalt seemed only concerned about finding his sprite Ivy but was motivated by Haden's competitive challenge. He also began the run around the spiral path weaving its way upwards. Even Talik didn't want to be the last one, apparently it isn't good to be a 'frightened Wazler' and she would know as a native Karazian. You've heard they inhabit the land around the river Losden where Talik is from. You think she is Bymothan from the accent and the conversation you were having at the Goat Inn just a short time ago, though she has never outright named her home town to you. 

You sigh and with no one else  left in the antechamber you follow.

You are to make two predictions and enter them in Thy Quests form below.

1. What does it mean to find the stars?

2. Will Talik's pessimistic response be correct?

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