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With the door now removed Nicelle entered the gondola proper and saw it was littered with a variety of Nazh's devices. He pulled a gun of unknown function on her causing her reflexes to kick in, swiftly she approached him and used her leecher abilities to drain the device of its investiture. Upon seeing this Nazh panicked and tried to take aim again but this time Nicelle kicked the gun out of his hand and let it plummet off the gonadola. While he was distracted Nicelle grabbed hold of the map, before she could take it however Nazh grabbed onto his side of it. The pair wrestled for control over it, all the while insulting one another, until eventually Nazh fell out of the gondola, Nicelle offered a truce to try and pull him up but Nazh declined and instead opted to cut the map in half causing him to plummet. After confirming her half of the map had the needed clue Nicelle travelled down to where Nazh should have landed but found no evidence of him there nor witnesses to him. While searching she bumped into [[Hoid]]{{wob ref|1702}} who offered to tell her a story which she declined. Upon reaching home she immediately consulted the map for the next clue on her journey.{{file ref|New Ascendancy broadsheet.jpg|The New Ascendancy broadsheet}}
During the six following years Nicki eventually served as Jak's assistant for a brief period, she would consider it one of the strangest times in her life, and then became an independent adventurer again. During these ventures she befriended two [[kandra|faceless immortals]] named [[Kesun]] and [[Tabaar]] who later became her travelling companions, together they went on many ventures with one involving Tabarr having to disguise himself as a Koloss. She met the Haunted Man many more times as well throughout her travels, to the extent that Nicki counted him as one of her adventuring companions, and they made a promise with each other to explore the Cosmere together. Their relationship slowly took on a romantic tension.{{file ref|The Two Seasons broadsheet.jpg|''The Two Seasons'' Broadsheet}} Following a public dispute between Jak and his sidekick Handerwym, Sauvage would decide to continue under Handerwym's brand, her newer stories contained comments making fun of Jak's stories and she was more open to allowing Handerwym to edit her work.{{file ref|The Two Seasons broadsheet.jpg|''The Two Seasons'' Broadsheet}}
Eventually Nicki's travels got her involved in finding a '''Compass of Spirits''' which she believed was central to saving [[scadrial]], the compass possessed the ability to send one to the [[Cognitive Realm|Ghost Dimension]]. Whilst attempting to reach their destination one of Nicki's rivals, [[Vila Mecant]], stole the compass but forgot to take the key with her. Quickly Nicki moved to hand the key to the device to Nazh so that he could keep it away from Vila while Nicki persuaded her two companions to merge together into a bird. With this done they gave chase to Vila and Nicki fought her off, managing to retrieve the compass in the process. Afterwards she spoke to Nazh who held her and then moved in for a kiss before stealing the compass off Nicki, he apologised before disappearing to the Ghost Dimension. Realising the betrayal Nicki was hurt and panicked realising that there was no way for them to locate Nazh, concluding their quest was lost. KeSun and Tobarr however stopped Nicki and told her that there was another way to enter the ghost dimension that they had never told her about.{{file ref|The Two Seasons broadsheet.jpg|''The Two Seasons'' Broadsheet}}▼
== Relationships ==
=== Nazh ===
Nicelle and [[Nazh]] originally met when the latter tried to steal a part of her inheritance, a map of [[New Seran]] given to her by her father. During this altercation the pair originally fought one another which ended with Nazh dangling out of the gondola they were in, Nicelle attempted to reach down and save his life but he rejected the offer. Though quite angry with him over the theft of the map Nicelle admitted that she found Nazh quite attractive, calling the timbre of his voice enjoyable and stating that she enjoyed remembering his face.{{file ref|New Ascendancy broadsheet.jpg|The New Ascendancy broadsheet}}
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▲Eventually Nicki's travels got her involved in finding a '''Compass of Spirits''' which she believed was central to saving [[scadrial]], the compass possessed the ability to send one to the [[Cognitive Realm|Ghost Dimension]]. Whilst attempting to reach their destination one of Nicki's rivals, [[Vila Mecant]], stole the compass but forgot to take the key with her. Quickly Nicki moved to hand the key to the device to Nazh so that he could keep it away from Vila while Nicki persuaded her two companions to merge together into a bird. With this done they gave chase to Vila and Nicki fought her off, managing to retrieve the compass in the process. Afterwards she spoke to Nazh who held her and then moved in for a kiss before stealing the compass off Nicki, he apologised before disappearing to the Ghost Dimension. Realising the betrayal Nicki was hurt and panicked realising that there was no way for them to locate Nazh, concluding their quest was lost. KeSun and Tobarr however stopped Nicki and told her that there was another way to enter the ghost dimension that they had never told her about.{{file ref|The Two Seasons broadsheet.jpg|''The Two Seasons'' Broadsheet}}
== Trivia ==
* Nicelle Sauvage may be the main character in a future novella by [[Isaac Stewart]] tentatively titled '[[Boatload of Mummies]].'{{wob ref|15159}}{{wob ref|13744}}
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