Although Astredian found his party member’s behaviour highly suspect, he decided not to push the matter. Elise didn’t seem worried, and as far as he could tell, the troubadour just happened to have a strange effect on people. She couldn’t really help the way others reacted to her. Sure, she wasn’t classically charismatic, but had an uncanny knack for finding and pulling the right people into her circle. Even if they didn’t seem like a good fit at first, she found a way to bring people together and make them fit into her little solar system, her inexorable gravity gently wheeling everyone into properly aligned orbit. Not just any people, either. She brought together the right people, at the right time.
Not everyone reacted to her the same way, of course. Perhaps the elf’s unusually shy beh
