Silhouette remained silent as the gryphons landed and spoke to Tamara. She was far less impressed by their presence than that of the pegasi earlier- she'd battled the gryphonkin many times, as they were an enemy of the inviskets' captors. And these two were starved- they were no threat.

Her ears perked forward and yellow eyes went wide in surprise as Astyr spoke of her kin being on this world. She shook of the shock, then stepped forward and scowled menacingly at the two before her. "Which humans?" She snarls, her tone threatening. More slavers? They would pay too, then.

Fantom also looks surprised, but seems content to let Sil deal with the gryphons.

The black one looked at Sil with an interest. "The 'econonmy' as the humans put it depends on a certain product. Your kind tends to that product. This place isn't inhabited my humans anymore. They're all gone. What's left is the money making asset."

Astyr chuckled bitterly, "The King is becoming senile. He rules over nothing..."

"But the people are buying the plant," Istyr picked up, "which gives him and the nobles here money to use in places elsewhere other than this realm. The throne is becoming more attractive since whoever becomes the next king, is also in charge of the plants and will inherit the profit.”

Tamara shook her head, “Wait-...what are you talking about? What plants? “ For two starving gryphons, they were talkative. Or maybe they wanted to tell Tamara for a reason? Never the matter, Tamara wanted to know more. She quickly took out more food and they ate it up as quickly they had eaten the ham.

“The humans call it Mirthweed.” Istyr explained after swallowing, “They take the plant to other places to sell them, but they grow them here. They’re making a lot of money off of it. Inviskits are used to tend to these plants since they need a lot of care, and they don’t need to pay the workers.”

“But they can’t seem to make enough of that plant.” Astyr spoke after the last bit of the food was gone, “So they need more land. But the majority of the land belongs to the gryphons. Many of our kind is gone now, they’ve either left or have died of starvation. We chose to stay, this is the land we belong to and no where else.”

Istyr picked up where his brother left off, “it’s still our land, they can’t have it, they never will and the treaty prevents that.”

Tamara crinkled her brow in confusion, “What treaty?”

“The one that you signed, it prevents our land from being used without our chieftain’s permission,” Istyr answered. “The plants are in high demand. We won’t give them our land to grow more Mirthweed so what they do is get more inviskits. The plants grow faster when they are tended to more often.”

Silhouette snarls and takes another threatening step towards the two gryphons. "I don't care about the blasted economy! Where are my kin being kept?" She demands, her voice on the edge of a snarl. She'd battled the gryphonkin for years, and she had developed little tolerance for them.

Fantom sighs. Sil could have such a short fuse, sometimes.. but what could he expect? He remains silent- she was handling things alright for the time, and he din't want her any more mad at him than she already was...

They were neither threatened nor angry about the Inviskits reactions. Instead, they seemed completely indifferent to Sil. “You don’t care about the economy? Good, neither do we,” Astyr said passively. “We play no part in their profit, and we don’t care about it either.”

“The inviskits are located at the Mirthweed domes." Istyr explained, "They’re domes made out of glass and metal framed.”

She was hoping for directions on how to get there.. but the information she was given was good as well.. She flicks an ear at the description of the domes. "Glass? Good. Should be easy, then. Where are the Mirthweed domes?" She demands, then adds "In relation to here... how do I get there?"

"Just walk north." Astyr stated simply. "You're bound to see it."

"Or..." Istyr cut in, "we can lead you. That is..if you have anymore food?" The hungry gryphon looked at Tamara pleadingly.

"We don't have any meat left... I'm sorry."

Astyr smiled sadly, "Ah well..we'll do it anyways, since you are the guardian and this here..." Astyr glanced at Sil, "Is...I guess your friend."

Istyr seemed dissapointed at the lack of pay for their offered service, but agreed with his brother.

Tamara laughed in a surprisingly sardonic manner when Astyr mentioned Sil being a "friend."

"Let's go and investagate this matter." She gestured at the others, and the gryphons started leading.

Silhouette seems pleased with the offer and follows the brothers. She walks swiftly, then slows when she almost passes the gryphons.. then walks swiftly again, repeating the pattern. Obviously she'd like to be moving faster, but she says nothing.

Fantom sighs and follows, staying behind the rest of the group. Maybe this will give me a chance to slip away.. then I won't have to go back.. He shakes his head. No. I do have to go back. I shouldn't be so selfish, the others deserve freedom too.. Moreso than I, for sure.. Bah. She's right when she says I'm a coward....

Celia follows with out saying anything. She decides that she will help out just about anyway she can, if she needs too.

((Eeee..sorry for the shortness..and simpliness? oddness? erm, whatever...
But I needed to post to keep Celia with everyone...next posts will be better. ^_^ *runs off and hides until another posts pops up* ))