A Silence Falling Dark and Deep

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Heavy Cost</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Southern Echo</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> has returned from the Forbidden Sea with a relic from the gods but her crew paid a terrible price for both. Rocked by betrayal and loss Nate Lowwind and his friends are left with broken pieces to pick up and reforge. Nate wants nothing more than to find a way forward and help his friends heal but his plans may need to wait. There's trouble on the winds and they have reached all the way to Spider's Nest.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Desperate Plea</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When quartermaster Daxton Malatide learns that Spider's scouts and informants are disappearing from the seas he knows that danger is rearing its head but so is opportunity. Spider's desperation leads to an offer that is in the crew's best interest to take and Dax convinces a reluctant Captain Iris Arani to accept. But as the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Southern Echo</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> sails into imperial territory and discovers what's really happening in the Common Sea Dax finds his friendship with Iris at odds with his pledge to the crew.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An Unraveling World</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While Dax struggles with a critical choice between his loyalties and his duties Nate finds that what he wants may not matter in the face of what needs to be done to keep his friends safe. When danger comes crashing down around the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Southern Echo</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> dire choices will be made. Some may prove unforgivable.</span></p>