Dream goblin made flesh (Patreon)

Pardon the art delay today! I had a dream that felt like it was plucked straight out of Reda's Pathfinder campaign. I'll share that below for those of you that aren't in the discord!I had a dream where Ionus(Reda's noble father) and I, as Reda, were invited to a party by a very important noble. He was a "collector", rare trinkets and animals and all sorts of curious things. When we arrived, we were ushered into a grand room with mounted animal heads, exotic rugs, weapons, instruments, art, all manner of things. We saw him enter the room with a nondescript human woman, and he immediately approached, tugging the woman along with him.He greeted Ionus with snakish pleasantries, and gestured to the woman proudly."Ionus, I finally have my *own* little pet," he announced, commanding the woman to drop her disguise.She removed a ring, and began to transform in front of our eyes. Her skin turned green and her ears began to distort and grow, longer and larger than mine. She got shorter, and her demeanor was clearly dimmed and metered because of the lord standing next to her. The lord seemed like he expected Ionus and me to be jealous, like she was just another trinket that he'd one-upped Ionus with. But Ionus introduced himself to her like she was a person, and I stepped forward and took her hand to smile, make eye contact, and introduce myself as well. She told me her name was Demra.The party got underway as more nobles arrived, and at some point I lost track of Ionus. There was food and drink and merrymaking, but the vibe was weird. At some point, the goblin girl approached me, unaccompanied by her lord. She took my hand and led me deeper into the estate, through room upon room of cluttered curiosities. She led me into a storage room of sorts, full of chests and rolled rugs and dusty things.She told me, hushed and hurried, that Ionus had been taken. That her lord was *collecting* the other nobles to add to his estate as statues, to absorb their power and influence. She told me that we had to be the ones to figure out how to stop him and free them, because he would never expect harmless little *things* to seek to undo his plans. She told me that Ionus was in an enchanted chest in the room, she knew which one, but she didn't have the key.We began searching for a key that could safely open the box without setting off its enchantment, and then I woke up.Anyway, here's Demra.