After confirming that all the goblins were gone by visiting each one of the known sites, everyone ended up returning to the central village. Rena would still occasionally glare at Zira, but Simon remained sure to stay between the two.
He could not allow his cousin's momentary anger deprive him of his friend and party scout. Zira was an extremely talented member of the party and they had grown close over the nearly year that they had been partied together.
When they finally returned to the village, they had the chief sign off on the paperwork for the guild to mark both party's quests as completed. After that was said and done, he asked if he could borrow a spare room in the chief's house to handle some personal matters.
Seeing as how they had saved the villager's livelihoods, the chief was quick to agree to help Simon with such a simple request. When he was alone, he gathered some paper and a quill to write a letter back home.
