"Let's free her so we can get the remaining things taken by the Hags and get home." Horatio votes. 

While Pud levitates back down (thanks to a smug Ringlerun and his magic staff), the rest of the party shimmies down the rope, one-by-one, through the ruined tower wall in the upper palace near the Hall of Hatches, where Valor's Call have been waiting since you ascended. 

"Find anything?" asks Strongheart.

(Is the Ballroom your next destination? Are you headed back there the same way you came?)

The two groups converge again on the ledge at the end of the broken hallway outside Hall of Hatches.

Ringlerun rests his staff on the marble floor with satisfaction as Pud is safely back on his feet. 

"So..." continues Strongheart. "Are we waking the archfey Zybilna next? She was double-crossed by the Coven. And the League."

" Sure....why not.", said Matilda non-commitally.

Ben:

"That seems best to me, though I must admit to being curious what is behind that door at the top of the central tower," says Ben.  He starts waking towards the room with the time-frozen Zyblina in it and adds, "Though we'd best stand clear when she awakes, given that she may still mentally be in the middle of a battle," as he turns a thoughtful eye towards Ringlerun of cone of cold fame...

" Also her pet is dead......."

" Well, one of them..."

Unless you have further business here, the party makes its way down the marble hallway, past the wild-haired, frozen, levitating elf, and back downstairs. 

You are back in the grand ballroom, littered with the splintered remains of three doors that have been knocked from their hinges, a massive dead jabberwock, a vaporous black iron cauldron, a half-eaten aurochs, 17 frozen royal courtiers in all shapes and sizes, and a frozen archfey, reaching desperately toward the cauldron.

"Well, here we go!" Titaani nervously walks up to the queen, holding out the unicorn horn. "Natasha?"

Pud stands back at a safe distance, just in case. He knees down and holds his shield up, protecting himself but also presenting it to the queen. He makes the face on his magical shield of expression make a smiley face. 

Titaani touches Zybilna with her unicorn horn while speaking the newly-learned name.

Zybilna lurches forward a step, then quickly regains her balance.

She swears, then exhales loudly with a clear tone of aggravation. "...Too late!” she snarls.

Her eyes dart around in search of enemies before fixing on you. “Have we met?” she asks.

Titaani bows her blonde head respectfully, getting down to one knee. "Queen Zybilna, we haven't met just yet, but it is an honour to make your acquaintance now! We are heroes from the material plane sent to save your home!"

Zybilna frowns and studies Titaani, listening to her intently.

"And what damage has the Hourglass Coven wrought since I've been frozen?"

Matilda stood ready in case Titaani appeared to be in any danger but she decided to let Ben or Horatio  do the talking for now....

Ben:

Stepping up, Ben says, “Since coming to this realm from the Witchlight Carnival, we have seen much hardship that your citizens have undergone under the merciless rule of the Hourglass Coven.  Memories stolen, children enslaved, workers transformed into lifeless masks.  We have opposed the hags and their associates, the League of Malevolence, with the aid of many denizens of this land as well as the members of Valor’s Call.”

Gesturing to the assembled group, he adds, “We stand before you having defeated the League and at least temporarily slain each hag in the coven, braving many challenges throughout Prismeer to get to this point, freeing the rightful Queen so your realm may recover.”

Persuasion if needed:  9

Zybilna nods. "And for that, she thanks you."

She turns to Titaani and reaches out with one hand. "May I see that horn for a moment, my child?"

"Of course, your feyness!" Titaani reverently hands her the horn. 

Zyblina turns again to Ben. "I vow to undo all the damage the Hourglass Coven has wrought."

"Thank you," she says to Titaani, taking the horn. Zybilna touches the horn to the cauldron and begins to incant:

Eight cats perch atop eight dead attending
Eight lizards flee from eight cats scavenging
Eight toads climbing meet eight dead and falling
Eight snakes sneak under eight bats screaming
Eight eyes open, always dreaming
All on the cauldron that is ever seeming...

Horatio looks at the others nervously, worried the Queen hadn't made any comment about her dead pet beheaded not far from the cauldron. 

Pud looks at everyone nervously. He keeps his shield at the ready. He secures his helmet and clicks the heels of his fancy new flying boots. Just in case. He side steps over to Matilda and whispers.

”How’s your brother doing?”

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Pud looks at everyone nervously. He keeps his shield at the ready. He secures his helmet and clicks the heels of his fancy new flying boots. Just in case. He side steps over to Matilda and whispers.

”How’s your brother doing?”

" The same......not sure about asking........she seems.....yeah......."