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slash discord. Thank you, Joy Gara, Yes, sir, I am
here to relieve you of your watch, thank you. Are you doing our
right? Yes? I just have to sew my clothes and my body and
also probably take care of a numa as well. We suffered some wounds as
well. Well. I can't do much as some medicine goes, but I've
had a good hand at mending. If you want me to take a look
at knee equipment on the one watch, that would be splendid. Thank you.
It's just the well, the sleeves on this to work quite totally.
I found the fabric on the floor, so m hm, yes, well,
why don't you take my robe, get comfortable and I'll have a look
at it. Thank you. I'll pay say, hand on your shoulder and
squeeze. That was quite a sight to wake up to when I was supposed
to be awake. It's paralyzing, literally and figuratively. The important thing is
that we made it through. I suppose, sir, well at any rate,
we're all breathing. Thank you. I'll go get changed and I'll give
this over to you. All right. I hope we get some good sleep.
Thank you. I needed good night. Good night. I will then
take some time to put a hand to tailoring as best as I can and
begin my watch. Okay, please make a perception check for me. Twenty
one. Okay, roll me a D twenty please fourteen. Alrighty, your
watch is uneventful. It's about like five am or so. It's time for
the next person to go on watch Aurrish. I will stretch roll my body
and to make my way over to Karun. I gently poker on the shoulder,
Karun Karun. I will leave karumb and tuck them in just a little
tightly and make my way instead to a rash talk. Okay, hey are
you doing yeah, yeah, h yes, we under attack. No,
no, nothing like that. It's been quiet, rather peaceful, good What's
what can I do for you? I was wondering if you can take watch?
But can I actually get your eye on this? And I'll take a
step back from you and unfurl the clothing that I've tailored. You see,
it's very distinctly yas and I've tried my hand at mending it. M I
could probably yes, fix that if you need any more help while you sleep.
Oh I it's fine, No, just I thought it finished. Oh
yes, please holes there from when she was breaked across the neck. Oh
I must have missed that. You look like that full s I understand,
mm hmm. Yara has sensibility and fashion that is unfamiliar to me myself as
well. I can take watch. Yes, all right, thank you for
doing this. If you could have bags, I would. If you need
anything or if you get lonely, don't be shy. Just waken me up.
I will keep watching and read you think, okay, sleep well.
I will thank you. The first chances of dawn starting to break through here
a rash ta make me a perception check? Yes, that is say twenty
eight, I believe, let me doubt check it's site based. Yes,
yes, twenty eight not necessarily could be stuff. If it's if there's something
site based, it's twenty eight. If it's anything else, it's twenty seven.
Due to my goggles. Sure these goggles do something cohedd and roll the
D twenty thirteen. Okay, your watch goes without any problem. Morning comes
and people are starting to wake up the day. I'll start some tea,
then maybe some light breakfast. Anybody that has the drained condition that is now
gone and uh, normal long rest stuff takes effect, which is supplemented by
any healing that you would get from yar. But it's unded, like ya,
I just passed the fuck out. I'm happy to treat anyone if you're
still injured in any variation. Good morning, Good morning. My hair hurts.
Do you mean your scalp? No, my hair. Your hair has
feelings when you lean on it and it pushes it the wrong way, like
if you've been drinking. I have no hair to understand this. Mine doesn't
stand. Do you want a massage? Now? I'll live somehow. I
could give you one of my teeth those numbers the scalp, though, I'll
take a tea. M hmm. I'll get you a cup boards and do
you want to listen folk on or just a regular herbal Well, do you
seem maybe like you're an expert. It's a lizard one. I will take
this hm. Hmmm. I give you a numbing tea. I believe you've
had this before, A numbing to you. What's that? Hm? Anyone
need breakfast? Oh yes please, I'm starving. Yes, and we have
a long road today. I believe much ground to make up for given the
past couple of nights. Uh oh ah, before you went to bed,
the mosquito witch is pleased. Oh excellent. So you you communed with her
last evening? Yes, yes, by your eyes so wide? Oh ah.
She showed herself to me. I've only seen her a few times.
Your deity showed herself to you. She is not her deity. She is
a force of nature. Well what did she look like? Oh? Was
she beautiful? Have I not described her before? She is beauty? Yes?
Uh? Many arms uh long proboscis m hu eyes, set sea into
you, and threw the deathen into life. Her wings terrible and great.
She is nature, rebirth, the cycle. And how do you feel about
that encounter? She was pleased? I feel very good. I am not
disappointing her anymore? Excellent? What is good? Mm hmm, multiple birds,
one stone, I almost got eaten alive. But you're so she's not
a deity force of native? Is that? How? How would you prefer
we? Is? She is the queen of which your queen? Yes?
Yes, I mean that's what you typ So your queen is pleased at least
excellent. She liked the demon blood, well, perhaps we will endeavor to
give her more? She yes, so I will endeavor. Yes, I
am very pleased to hear that you are happy her rash talk. Your happiness
is important to me, But I also would like to say that you are
more. You are worth more than just what you do and who you serve
and what you do for them. We are worth more than what we do.
Yes, well, in service to another. I believe it's what you
mean, Celia. You are more than just a not a pond, but
in your service to your mosquito witch. I know this in mid talk.
So I'll get up and walk towards the carriage and the hoarse and then,
uh, like, I guess you could say, tend to the horse path
horse or whatever, feed it, give it a Yeah, that's what I
mean get it ready for travel. You don't typically leave the horse like you
know, fully ready, like bound to the cart and and whatnot, you
know. Mm hmm. I look to rosch talk, then Manovik, and
then back at ros talk. M huh. I'll lean in to the rest
of the party that's at the table or where not to the table. We
don't have a table, but wherever we're sitting. You Raschok and I have
noticed, but have you too noticed some strange air about Malavik from time to
time? Aslea you, we would probably know best. Yeah, he said
some very troubling things to your Rostock and myself the other day. I'm worried.
Spoke like a dragon. That's if they're odd one two fronts of a
war going on inside of him. Mm hmm. We should talk to him.
We did already, maybe in your forefront as you are blood bonded.
All right, I will rise and grab myself another helping of food and walk
over to Malvik. Hey, I noticed that you didn't help yourself to any
food here here. I am not hungry. You've got to stay strong.
We've got the whole day ahead of us for travel. I had my field
last night about that. How do you feel? M never better? Wanting
to get on the road to this task, get it done. What needs
to eat is resorse. No one seems to tend to it. Interesting beast,
strong, built like a leader, but yet there's always in the service
of humans or others, something that longs to be free. As eyes are
telling stories beyond what we can convey. All we do is whip and ask
it to go forward. Showing some care might make this trip a little bit
easier. After a moment, I step forward and I raise a hand,
and I also begin to pet the horse. Would you like to groom it
together? Looks like he's a brushing if that is what you wish, Hm
hmm. I'll reach into the saddle bag and pull out a brush and I'll
hand it to you, And as you begin brushing, I'll go through the
rations and pull out something edible, maybe some hard tack, and I'll offer
it to the horse, and I'm petting her face as I do. I
have a question, melvic mm hmm. If you could be anywhere where,
would you like to be anywhere in alliver Galarian? If you could just whisk
away? Never thought of that. A place that accepts me. Actually,
I've thought about this acceptance over the course of time. I believe I would
like to be on my own, maybe in a nice mountain up overlooking the
world, watching it and unfold, fending and taking what only would I need
from the land to survive. I believe at this point we don't need social
interaction as much as one may think. As long as the world provides we
shall be okay. Then our time will pass on to the next. That
is certainly one way to look at it. Yes, it sounds peaceful.
M hmm. Indeed, is that something you want? Peace? East and
solace is one thing. East between races and others is a whole different story,
now, is it. Then you have to worry about what the other
side once. But if it's just me, yes, peacefulness probably would be
good. Looking at this Ladin he's separated to buy so many things, many
oddities there was once not like that. You know, having to create others
to govern others is one task. When that is broken, the system is
ruined, then you have to burn that to the ground and start over.
I feel like there's too many take advantage of what is given to them.
Over time, they forget where they come from. How they're nurtured. I
believe that most people forget that the very air that they breathe comes from the
trees around us. Oh, yet all they do is chop it down for
their own selfish needs, take more than they should, and then have the
nerve to push aside others that need that same shelter nourishment. I think you
and I can both agree on one thing. People resort to violence is the
answer way too easily. Yeah, but then again, sometimes violence is the
only way too answer cold. It's true, violence is what set my people
free, but it's not what keeps us free. It's each other community what
I'm working for it. It's a definition to you free. We say that
all the time, but yet we always have to put someone in control.
So when in control has to line everyone else up and guide them. There
is no true for you. I don't agree with that. I would say,
if do you believe that to be true, then you believe you have
no power. Hmm. Oh, I have our and so'll all that riot
and go together to overthrow that is which is trying to guide them in the
right direction or the wrong direction, depending on who it is. At the
end of the day, they fight for to overthrow a controlling authority, it
to only create another. The cycle continues. Oh, I don't think that
it's so bleak like that. Oh is it not your clan? They not
have a leader. We do, but it isn't like how it used to
be. We were a broken people once it took the whispering tyrants to bring
us together. That was violence. I was born into it, I am
intimate with it. But we have chosen a different path. And it is
people like me that make a concerted effort to go out into the world.
The Burning Sun Clan. My mission it is to do that very thing,
try to give people peace where violence doesn't have to be the answer. It's
not easy, yeah, but I'm glad that you live by your ideas.
Sad to say that many don't. I'm sad to say that your guidance will
be taking it and this split second you walk away, it may make a
day or week, month, year more. It will result in some kind
of different turn than what I have. Hope that I can plant a seed
and one day it will become something. Like you said, we give back
to nature, nature gives back to us. Just have to figure out your
place. Eventually, nature takes what is old. Nature will take what is
old. And I give the horse a final pat maybe, but it will
give back again, Yes, oh it will, it will. Mhm.
I hold out a hand expectingly for the brush. Mm hmm. She looks
shiny and smooth. You did a good job, royalty, as she shall
be. Hmm. Do you mind doing this with me again tonight? Once
we make camp again? That will be m I have to go wherever we
are, I shall say, I will be with yours. Well, I
will be with you too, never far. I have to go pack my
bags, so I'll be over there if you need me. I will work
on harnesses, good talk. I stop as I'm about to step away,
and I wrap my arms around you from behind, and I give you a
hug. You'll feel an intenseness grow, muscles tightened, and then you'll feel
an immense heat from the mid section. But I will turn and give a
smile and hold on the hand arm class and say you shall live on in
a new world. I squeeze you hesitantly, slowly, I unwind myself from
you, and I walk away. No, continue honsing the horse very well.
Anybody doing anything else before you set out. I'm scraping little bits of
the paunch gum off of the ground, little bits of dirt, little creatures
inside. I'm just putting it in a little vial, smelling it a bit,
rubbing it betwixt my fingers. I'm creating a vaccine. Okay, what
vaccine are you creating? Or do you want to keep that a secret?
Ah? It is a secret vaccine. That's only I hope. I didn't
realize there was more than one. Oh, I mean, you've got lots
of recipes now, I don't know what makes it is a secret vaccine.
That is all that I know about it. Alrighty, fair enough. Anybody
else, I will likely begin preparations in packing my belongings, as well as
anyone else's who's were in our tent, which was Osilia and Malevik, so
I would have begun packing some of their things for them. As you're packing,
I loom on your perserial vision and I'm sort of leaning forward with my
hands behind my back. Yes, how do you like your clothes? If
you're all right? Yes, you did wonderful, Thank you so much.
Asilia, you're a stitcher, anyone with needlework as well, I will admit
it was a combined effort. A lot of it was a rash talk,
so I think some gratitude is owed that way as well. But I'm just
happy to see you smiling, and I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
I've begun packing some of your things as well, since we probably want
to get going. How is he m? I can see why you're consarned,
but I think we shouldn't be too hasty with any judgment. We are
all going through a difficult time. A lot has happened to us in these
past few months. Patience in an open mind I think will go a long
way. Of course, I just I just worry about him, that is
all. It doesn't come from a place of distrust. It comes from a
place of I see our friend and they are saying some troubling things, very
confusing, troubling things, but troubling nonetheless. M hm, I understand,
and how are you? Are you all right? I'm good. Troubled in
other ways, but nothing to be concerned about. It is a great thing
we are embarking on, and a lot is at stake. We will persevere.
Yes, we have the four well at any rate. The bright side
of things based off of Raschtok's estimations. We handled that problem from the caravan,
so they should be safe, which is a great relief, I'm sure
to yourself as well. Yes, absolutely, the weight off my mind.
Indeed, there are many weights at the moment speaking of. And I dip
my head towards you, and I will step away to begin the heavy lifting
of putting together the tent and stowing it away. Excellent, And I've begun
just setting up the pack to make it ready to go for myself, and
I've packed up Manovik's bag as well. Okay, with that, you all
begin to set out once again. Apologies I didn't realize. But in case
anybody wonders, when I show the map the mark for the where the star
fell, I had originally put someplace else and I must have moved it or
something, and I was doing some measurements. I'm like, that's not adding
up right. Why is that not working? And I'm scouring through the PDF
trying to see, like where are they right now? And I'm trying to
figure it out. I'm like, oh, that's completely wrong. I must
have moved something, so they're they're further west than I thought they were.
Apologies for that for the mistake there, but you begin to set out on
your way again. Uh and I'd say probably by this point that you're crossing
the river, which will mean that you are heading into Sarcorus proper. At
this point, a few days south of Kennebris, you begin to h to
cross the west west Sulin River, which is kind of like the border lands
for the UH for Sarcorus and uh. Immediately you can kind of see the
landscape change. Beyond the river, where you were experiencing fields and forests,
you now start to see more of that bad lands sort of biome take over.
At this point you can see and feel a change in the air pressure
and the environment. There's more of like harsh cutting winds now. The The
river doesn't exactly look I don't want to use the word healthy, but it's
it's not. It looks muddled and sort of gross. Something you may want
to take a vaccine fores this rides. I'm sorry, something you may want
to take a vaccine before you cross it? Is this right? I don't
know, are you are? Are you making a judgment call here as Karun?
I don't know it does it look unhealthy? Like we are going to
catch something? If you make a medicine check or a nature check, I'll
take either. I was going to say you described it as looking unhealthy,
and in my head, I'm like, it sounds like you're describing it to
be the perfect thing that rash Talk and Karoon want to check out twenty one.
It doesn't look like a place where you should gather drinking water, that's
for sure. But I don't know if it would immediately jump out to you
as someplace that you know you could catch something. I guess, all right,
I would save the vaccine. Okay, you begin to uh make your
way across the river. Who is going to lead the horse? I will?
Okay, please make a survival check for me. Mm hmm blunty too.
Alrighty. You try to find the best, I guess, shortest way
across the river. It's kind of recessed a bit, and you're able to
find I guess some not the like best place to cross. You know,
like there's a few stones here and there that you might be able to use.
It's not really super safe looking from what you can tell me. Alb
mhm. We may need to have to I'm just saying this to myself.
I don't know that way. Mm hmm. You said the direct way that
I found isn't really safe, right, Yeah. I mean imagine that you
probably like looked up and down for maybe five minutes each way and just trying
to like see the best way to cross, you know what I mean?
Like where you know, can you ford across? Can you just like lead
the horse across the river? The river is i'd say, fairly fast moving.
It's not it's not the easiest looking river to cross. It's kind of
recessed, like in a little bit of a yeah, I don't want to
say a canyon, but it's yeah, it's kind of I look at the
horse and I asked, the horse, you think you can cross? No,
I don't think so either. There's no response. Of course, I'll
put my hand on his neck, the nape of the neck, and I'll
close my eyes and uh visions and things, and then I decide to without
telling anyone to pull the carriage in the direction that would make us walk around.
Who's driving or who's on the who's staring? This will be numa.
Okay, Oh, so Numa's up being good? Okay. I'll typically it's
typically a numa or who are driving the waggon the like trade off. When
they get tired, I will look back at them and signal in some hand
gestures and loads hosts speaking. Crossing will provide us with no kind of comfort.
The horse of the horse doesn't make it, we won't make it.
You need to go around, no matter how long it takes. But if
a fate is there, it's going to be well. Waiting Sakawachie, they
will be there. The west Sulan River m it is through all of sar
Korus, through the north and the south west. Find somewhere to cross.
Yes, this is not the place where we're at. I presume we're right
there, right where, right where that red circle is. Uh, you're
well, yeah, it's a big token, but you're a few days south
of Cannabis. Okay, it might be better for us to go south anyway,
if my memory the rumors are correct. Where we're going is not going
to be the best places, and do not want to end up in the
middle of it. And we can go down a few I say south.
We may find something in a divot in the land. But my God is
telling me not to cross now, all right, we will see if we
can find a better place? Should should you all maybe spread out and look
for a better place to cross? I will go. You informed the others
very well, we'll stop here for now. I'll just take my fingers and
whistle. I'm not gonna do it in the mica like towards the crew and
the Nallo signal that I'm going to look for an alternate way around and explain
that going through is not gonna work. I don't actually walk up to them
and tell them. I just kind of walk down the river bank, get
low and dart off. Okay, what are the rest of you doing?
As Malvic begins to do this m this could be an exploration mode if you
would like, would you like me to check in the river? I could
swim in it. I might end up a little downstream due to the current,
but I could check for a shallower spot in the near vicinity. That
could be beneficial if you'd like to. As long as you think it's safe.
You definitely shouldn't drink this water. I will lot drink it. No,
no, but I can swim and hold my breath for many, many,
many moments. Are you sure you wouldn't like a taste of Harun's vaccine?
It is a potent mixture. It is just it looks just like mud.
It's just mud inside of here. It is a potent mixture of all
kinds of vitamins, natural vitamins and nutrients, perfect for traveling and also for
dunking your face into schwamps. Oh, yes, that sounds very useful.
I will give it to you for one gold it costs. The cost of
it alone is extraordinary. I hold out a single lesser reagent. Would you
like this instead? I will heapily take that. Yes, there you are.
I was getting it to you anyway. This is a good trade.
Enjoy, Ok, I slope down the mud vaccine. What do you what
do you think this tastes like myself a karoon? No, it's prop you
What do you think? Oh it is. Have you had edible clay before?
Is it like edible penies? No? Unfortunately not, I think then
no, yeah, no, it's it's just like clay. It's like eating
clay, but you don't get thick. It's a real thing, edible clay.
Definitely. You just take a chop out of the clay like it's mud.
You mean edible clay. It's yeah, it's not like it's a a
very real vaccine. Say you use it for like molding things, Like you
can use it and like make it look like dirt on cakes. Is this
all number of use? Is for it? Edible clay? Okay? Am
I really the only one that's I don't just thinking it was edible. Is
this the same line of thinking where it was like, oh yeah, glue
was edible when I was in kindergarten. No, No, it's a real
thing. It's not like eating paste. It's a thing. Anything is good.
I see you googling y yes, and this is edible multiple times.
I'm just imagining Dan taking bites out of cuffs now, just eating cups.
I mean that would probably be okay, it just wouldn't be great because it'd
be like shoddy. Would it taste like shard? No, we would taste
like clay, edible clay. Okay, So has consume this vaccine? About
you? What are you doing? As Malvic wanders off trying to find a
safer spot to cross, I am scouting agents. Okay, yeah, I'm
searching very agents. Okay. I want to investigate. I want to see
what's up with this water? Okay, how would you like to investigate hmm.
I hold out a piece of paper and some ink. Can I write
notes and look at it? Okay? So observation basically, yes, Okay,
you can use nature or perception. Oh, definitely perception twenty five.
Uh, it's not clear. It just you know, it's very looks like
it's carrying a lot of sediment, and like you can see maybe sort of
streams of what looks like some different liquids and stuff floating through varying colors.
I would like to try to you can tell, like immediately you wouldn't want
to drink it. Yes, I would like to try to make an educated
decision or a realization here of what might be wrong with it, Like does
it look like it's some sort of pollution or some sort of contamination. Have
I ever seen anything like it? Maybe somewhere in between both and the water
is flowing south? Okay, yeah, I mean you'd I mean, I
won't make it make a roll for this, but it's obviously coming like from
glaciers and mountains to the north m you know, and it's made a very
long way through Star Chorus to get to where you are. M So this
isn't even the worst of it. I will close my eyes as I'm looking
over this, and I'll take one hand and rub my fingers over the strange
veins on my other hand where the lay line mark is. Do I feel
anything? No? Okay, I will just reserve to myself and take a
moment to sketch out the landscape. Other than that, I don't do anything
else. Okay, Malvic, please give me a survival check, Okay.
Fourteen in this case doesn't mean that you fail to find anything. It means
that it takes you a really fucking long time find a safer spot, to
the point where it's like he's gone for a while. He's gone for a
couple hours, trying to find a better place to cross. Finally, you
know, let's call it h roll me in a D four please, Malvick,
I don't know if I want to use this thing on his side.
It's gonna give me one during this Okay. So it'll take you three hours?
And that was the best he could have done for that better than seven
oh it would have been would have been seven hours? Oh gosh, So
okay, okay, So uh three hours passed and finally Malvic gets back looking
a bit haggard. Which way did you go, you said you went south.
So finally Malvic returns, looking sort of imagine, probably pretty piste off
that I took you out angry. I have a very stern look on my
face. Come all right, did I find anything will swimming? What's why
I took the vaccine? Yeah? What what were you looking for? Rush
shallows? No? Okay, that's that's fine. I wouldn't have gone anywhere
near as far as Yeah, and then the reagent spy in the Chintz reagents.
You can make a you can make a survival check for me, please
Kren fifteen? Where am I? Yeah? I mean I think I think
you probably collect some of this water, but you're a little unsure as to
like how to use it because it's kind of gross and you'd probably have to
like separate out all the different bits inside. Oh, I know how to
use it. I'm not the vaccine. Okay, I will go to Numa
and cook and say, well, how far away would it be? I
mean, I know it took me through hours to find it. How far
would be south? About an hour and a half to finding a decent spot
a cross. I only found something that is feasible, but it's about an
hour and a half out of the way, Going out of our way is
better than crossing safely. I think, yes, yes, I will tell
the others. Then I will go. I will be your lead and I
run to the back, and I explained to them an hour and a half
out of the way is a more suitable spot across the river. Let's get
going. Oh no, and I'll run back to the front. So with
this delay, you are held back for several hours now first trying to scout
someplace to cross, and then actually doing it. It's wasted a good chunk
of the day. You make it across the river eventually, now heading into
Sarcorus proper, the river behind the bad lands ahead, the cutting winds are
whole old and dry. They are laced with dust here and there, and
sand and grit and dirt, and you know, it's one of those things
where when the wind picks up, it kind of hurts a little bit,
just you know, kind of grates on you, and it's not the best
to to experience the day in. But as you make your way into Sircorus,
I think you all feel and determine how this obviously affects your characters,
as you will, but it's a it's a different feeling here. The sounds
are different, the weather is different, and I imagine it's kind of affected
each of you in your own way. How how are you all feeling as
you make your way into circle Horus? Now this is where the world wound
was. I am on high alert my experiences that at the warfront, with
the nights of Last Wall, but the Gravelands was the inexperience that I would
not like to relive. But the rumors that we have heard and the concern
that I have over my friends, changes in the environment, environments and whatnot.
It it is unsettling. So I am hyper vigilant, more so than
really ever before. What was the like again, Yeah, it's uh,
it's it's pretty sunny out. Actually, it's actually very sunny. It's it's
it's not warm. It's it's still winter and you're pretty close to the northern
areas, so it is on the colder side. It's probably just above freezing.
And it's very dry here, and that that sort of like that cutting
wind is there, and it's a it's like that dry wind. You know,
you can all when you're in those those humid environments, you know,
you feel a little sticky, and I guess kind of it's one of those
things now where you're in this drier environment that it's just, I don't know,
a little bit more bleak. I would not like it here. If
it is dry and cold, I would be staying in the caravan as long
as I possibly can. I imagine when I think of this place, I
think of, have you ever seen This is kind of out of character,
but have you ever seen the movie? Like a quiet place? Okay,
so imagine being in a forest and like the leaves that you don't even hear
the leaves right, No birds, no, nothing is just stillness and quietness.
It's just odd. It's like you walked into a vacuum. I canna
imagine this being the same way throws me off my instincts. I solely move
on what's around me. That's kind of how I grew up, you know,
the law of the land, reading patterns, observing, And this is
very as almost I taking a back. Typically I'm very confident in my steps.
Now, I feel like I stepped into a whole completely different world,
and I'm more so leaning on the horse for comfort to know that there's some
kind of sense of normalcy next to me versus around me? What about you
are, Celia? What is the train like around us? Is it hilly?
Is it there? It's imagine the area around the Grand Canyon a bad
lands that sort of red, sort of clay, kind of rocky. Occasional
shrubs here and there, you know, not really very many trees. You
know, you might see one here and there. There's probably some petrified tree.
There is a solemn expression on my face as I look around, trying
to be as aware of my surroundings as I can be, and there's a
sadness in my eyes. This reminds me of my youth. I had left
the hold of Elks and and was essentially taken to Caramaga by my people.
It is a long and dusty and desolate road. I imagine this is not
unlike that, especially with the weight of what we heard when we were an
egata of the strife that people went through in this place. It is quite
clear that these things weigh on my mind. And I exhale loudly now and
then, and don't seem to notice that I'm doing it. You all seem
to be reacting to this in similar yet a little bit different ways. Was
Karoon reacting to this. This is a pitiful place, full of despair.
I despise it. There's nothing here that is alive. It is as if
a dwarven logging camp has made it so, made it so desolate and terrible.
I despise it. The day sort of pass as quickly as you spent
most of the day just kind of trying to find a way to cross the
river safely. You're greeted by this bleak place that has turned the mood of
many of the travelers in the caravan. As you continue further west than the
Sarcorus Wastes, you can see evidence of battles. There are bones of strange
creatures glittering certain areas around the environment, some that are definitely far from humanoid.
There are some humanoid bodies as well here, and there s just the
bones. Yeah, all right, someone please make a perception check for me.
As soon as I start seeing them bones, I will resort to staring
straight ahead. I lose the spirit of adventure here, all right, I
will make the perception check twenty nine. I know exactly where I am.
Okay, but the first time, yeah, Karun, please roll me a
D ten oh No. Three Okay, something catches your eye as you are
traveling through this battlefield. It's a sort of glint of light. Mm hmm.
I help ofth the caravan and investigated what is that? As you hop
out of the wagon, see the rest of you see karoon sort of rushing
off to look at something. There is a mirror that is laying next to
one of the body's Karen h looks silver with an elaborate frame. It's polished
to a brilliant shine, and there's no tarnish on it at all. No,
that is a spooky mirror. Can I look into the mirror without touching
it? Sure? Can I see anything? You? Kind of spooky inside?
You kind of bend down and take a look. What are you?
There's strange patterns of light reflecting in the mirror. You try to find yourself
in the mirror. Yes, sure do I see myself? Yes? You
do? Am I sexy in the mirror? I suppose that depends on your
definition? Mm? When you find yourself in the mirror, light is all
distorted around you. Ahron, What do you fear most? Oh, aps
the rejection and abandonment of my family. There is a moment where the light
sort of distorts around you, and you see your family. Huh, it's
around you. And you begin to recollect this moment in time where I felt
this abandonment. And you see the light swirl again in the mirror, shines
and catches your eyes, and you start to see these moments. There's moments
of rejection, maybe even hatred. Describe a see it is a sequence of
events flashing quickly. It is my appearance entrusting me to take care of my
sister. It is me attempting to do so. And I'm really just a
and I do not understand the level of responsibility needed, and so I lead
us both down a terrible, terrible path. And my parents they are not
talking to me still because of this. It was a terrible falling out.
And I've never seen my sister again. Do you make any noise? No,
no, not at all. What do the rest of you do?
As you see Karn hop out of the wagon and just kind of stop,
bent over on the side. I just watch. I don't have any reactions.
I am watching quite cautiously as well. She has rushed out of the
caravan. She has picked up an item that I have no idea what it
is. In the middle of a place that we are highly unfamiliar of the
perils of I'm reading. I would have called out your name, Karun Karum,
make a will save for me? Oh no, this is the fifteen
Yes, like a weird, distant kind of buzzing noise, Karun, nothing
important. I'm feeling sick to my stomach, anxiety in dread. Mhm.
By now the caravan is starting to make its way past. Yeah. Oh
no, I would hop off and attempt to shake Karon Karoon Darling. Do
you not hear us? I didn't mean to show you how to make the
bonds. That didn't mean for it to go so polly Karun Karun is looking
into a an ornamented silver mirror. Earra, I will attempt to take this
mirror out of her hands. Sure, please make a well savior Karun.
Karun is not holding the mirror. It is on the ground still. I
have not touched it, only looking into it. Twenty six. Okay,
you managed to kind of like avoid looking at the mirror as you try to
just move it away from Karun. Doesn't really seem to give you much trouble.
You just kind of push it away. Karen Darling and I will grab
her face, Karun. You start to see things a little bit differently as
the mirror gets sort of thrown to the side, lights get a bit brighter.
It's like too bright for daytime. It's too bright. And then Yara
is there in front of you, darling, Hello, something happened? What's
going on? Just? Uh nothing? Don't look at that. Ah,
I'll kick some sand over it. I will take this item and place it
in my bag of holding, actually rushing the stand off. Okay, take
it and put it in your bag of horning. Oh what's the mirror?
As I'm placing it inside my back? Am I of sound enough mine to
understand what has happened? I think you can make a probably an arcana check
it is a thirty to a net critical success. Yeah, that object is
most certainly cursed. Well, the mirror is cursed and it uh incapacitates anyone
who looks at it. It seems so. Should I not be placing this
in my back? Should I shatter it? Or should we use it against
our enemies? You could cover it in something. Just do not look at
it makes your eyes water, really though, don't look at it anyway,
Yes, sir, should like to get back on the wagon. Let's uh,
let's go right, Okay, I'm fine, fine, Well, if
you decide you don't want to keep it to yourself, you can always talk
to us. Just don't look at it, all right, right, right,
all right, okay, right, let's get you back to the wagon
and I'll assist Karoon in walking back. Okay, somebody make a survival check
for me, please. I guess I could do this this or our sucks
deep in reading twenty Okay, Malvic, please roll me a D six three.
You continue traveling for another three hours before night falls? Mm hmm?
Oh ah? Is the sun setting itself right know? Or is it completely
okay? It's believe it's dusk now and you can tell it's gonna get hit
dark. I believe we should all turn in too, becncern. I believe
we should probably start looking for a place that is safe enough to set up
cam. With not much out here in the bear in land, we're gonna
be quite noticeable, especially if there's a fire. So I suggest some way
we can see on all sides. Mm hmm it will be difficult, yes,
canyons, do you think maybe it is better to hunker down in one
of the canyons. It'll be a bad idea that we could use the carriage
as a way to block there's a sight for one side they saw tends towards
the greatest sort of backing. I'll let the others know see what they thoughts
are. And I'm like, oh wait in the back, hey everyone,
you do not notice the sun is going down? And I do not think
we should be traveling at night here and Cook suggested that we find a canyon.
M not many other natural structures for us to really hide behind. So
might I rack my brains on any creatures that might dwell in canyons? Uh?
Sure? I think the reason I'm thinking is like going canyon, giant
canyon worm comes and just eats the entire caravan as we sleep. You know
this will, I guess be a nature check twenty six. I mean stuff
definitely exists in canyons. I don't know how well versed you are in demon
war. I can't speak a bistle. Congrats. Yes, so I don't
know a lot about demons, but I did spend most of my life in
badlands. Could I perhaps do an esoteric role for creatures? I think that'll
be a nature check okay, team, Yeah, so there's definitely creatures that
prefer to do stuff like that. I think that you can tell that,
like this place has been pretty heavily affected by demons more than anything else.
You're just as likely to get attacked like in a in a canyon than I
guess out in the open, but you have an added benefit of like some
cover in the canyon. And as far as creatures go, I mean,
there's a lot of different creatures in the world. Suggesting that you know any
could be in any given location is kind of tough to know exactly. I
think a canyon is a good idea as it just put an not back again
something. At least we have some thing to lean on without any kind of
backing. We have more visibility if we're out here, It's true, but
so do they or whatever is out there. An attack for multiple angles,
packed tactics, your name it in the situation is a damn if you do
an if you don't. So we need to decide quickly. Yes, let
us search canyons of this m Yes, too narrow. If we are unable
to move around the caravan, some of us could be cut off from the
others. Yes, No, do you mind getting out and helping me?
Look, well, we pull the caravan. I can't look. I have
finished breathing good. I walked to the front and let any one pull a
cook. No to head towards the Canon canyons, but and to not find
an area that will lead us only one entry. When escaped, you'd have
some different routes and I'll explain to them some kind of survival tactics to be
able to look out for and that a rosch talk is also hoping okay survival
checks rasch Tuk and Malvic twenty seventeen. Yeah, there's some like awkward attempts
to try and find some kind of a switchback to go down into the canyons,
just like a path, you know, down into the canyons. It's
a little awkward. You think you find something okay for the night. You
probably shouldn't spend too long looking for something, so you pick the best of
what you have, which isn't great. You're it's not like easy to get
the wagon down. It's not really easy to get it back out of the
canyon. You know, it's going to take you some time to do both.
It's just to pain any ass. This place sucks. The that's that
we can do eventually. Let's call it another hour of trying to just navigate
the the caravan down into the wagon down into the canyon. You managed to
get another camp set up. Who's taking watch? What are you doing?
I'll take watch. I'll sleep most of the day. In the night,
I will take watch without without even really I don't put up with us.
I don't really listen to anyone else. I'll just kind of wave my head.
I'll start trying to see if there's any kind of lanterns or something that
we can like place. I think that's more safer than a fire. At
this point. You guys definitely have lanterns, like you, I mean,
Saka Watchie and them for sure picked up probably let's say two. They have
their own they have to lanterns. I have one that looks onto yeah hood
lantern. Yeah, so I'll try to create something to hang it off the
carriage and the they generally have a place to hook a lantern. Yeah,
So I'll do that, And I'll just say lantern I just probably better than
natural fires in a sense, you know not. And I will scout a
perimeter around where I said in camp honestly, because look for escapes, tracks
or bones. I don't really ask anyone to go with me, but if
anyone sees me leaving him want to, then I won't say no. I
would probably have joined you has asked me earlier. Just start with you.
That was good, Okay, let's see. I guess that both of you
can make perception checks thirty one twenty three. Okay, and you're looking for
what exactly any threats I'm looking I'm searching for a couple of things. First
of all, I'm looking for multiple routes of escape and entry, and then
I'm looking to see if there's any tracks of previous feedings or feces or anything
around the campsite. That'll probably be a little bit more easier than trying to
find actual like creatures or something, something that they would leave behind and not
try to cover up. Okay, you definitely find some creature tracks here and
there. It looks like some prey animals and some predators tracks. Most likely.
I think there's some indications of like snakes, and there's probably some wicked
looking scorpions and stuff wandering around. There's uh, no like bootprints or anything
like that like that. Oh, yeah, no, yeah, no,
thought about it the same person, meaning I in the first place. So
yeah, I would turn to a rosstuck. I wouldn't say anything, trying
to keep quiet and pointing at stuff and keeping my voice to Elizabeth. Good
news is if there is something out of there. Yeah, well no,
at least to me. They didn't work careful about how we sleep. Would
be better to sleep together, yes, and I on the skies will be
easier as well. Small window to watch a rational you found while you were
looking around. There is kind of like a crude alcove carved into one of
the walls of this canyon. There was evidence of maybe a some stones that
were put around for maybe a campfire, a few blackened, you know,
stones charred and in this alcove you find some feathers, some bones, and
some I like, I think a few copper pieces and some stones varying of
sort of varying composition, maybe like a piece of obsidian. There there's a
piece of quartz and a piece of like a pyrite. Mm hmm, like
a religion check. Yes, ah, I'm going to reroll that, I
think with the hero point, Okay, I am too curious. Twenty nine
it's much better. Yeah, a rashtack. You think this might be like
a makeshift a little shrine that somebody made two any idea to whom or what?
Trying to find the specific deity. This is sorry, I'm looking this
up. I don't know all the deities for Pathfinder off the top of my
head. Ah, here we go. Uh this will be for uh,
this will be a a makeshift shrine to Desna. Mm hmm. Desna is
the deity of dreams, luck, stars and travelers. Mm hmm. I
heard a droness speak of death no many times? Mm hmmm. How recent
does it look? I mean you can kind of tell maybe from the makeshift
campsite? Yeah, probably probably pretty old okay, not like a few days,
but maybe weeks and months, maybe longer m m mm hmmm. Uh
and no shrind to death does mmmm. Droness is good luck fortune. Stars
occasionally call upon her for the stars. Interesting, maybe several months or year
or more old long time mm hmm. Yeah, m hmm. Un much.
The third deity did for this place. But maybe this person signs that
they died here. Mm hmm. This is true all right, an omen
of good likely mm hmm. May fortune be with us then. Mm hmmm
tis what we need. I feel like we have gone far enough. It's
getting darker. Yes, I will pick up the court subsidian and pyrite.
Believe we may, and we need to go back. We need to.
Probably if you hang the furs around right, it area block yesh the We
can also just shudder most of the lanterns. They will glow very softly,
but still provide a tiny bit of light for us. Well. The reason
why I want to keep them active is there something's out there. Most things
have a sudden reaction to fire. Ah, I see removie fur and blind
them. Either that or we even have to use it. We can always
throw the lanterns to the ground. True, I can also burn them.
Yes, but even you are stugging easily. Oh yes I do, I
said back, hm malevic mm hmm. Do you wish to be a dragon?
Ye? Me wish to be a dragon? You laugh, but I
did not think I was joking. Mmm. Dragons are interesting. How much
do you know about them? M A decent amount? You to my heritage?
Yes, then you know that there are two types and recording you break
it down. They are the chromatic and they're the metallic mm hm, the
higher born and lesser born. Yes, mm hmmmm. We have come across
a few maya being caught in the middle Metallican nature. Those shall have had
their hearts eating. They do not belong here. They're ideals. They want
to just exist in the world, to be left alone. No, you
have to take what you have to keep, just like this world takes what
it needs. So do we take what we need? You come across fibers.
I don't know. So you take what you need. But do you
overabundance? You take more than you should. No. I wish for nature
to exists as it should. Ah, So what makes you different? Those
dragons often, let's just say the ideals are to let be what be.
They do not fight for what the land wants. They are mistakes then to
be corrected. You have not answered my question, malavick. What was your
question? Do you wish to be a dragon? Mm hmm. I do
not wish a rash talk. I get really close to a rash talk.
My back willferral will get you directly into the side of his face, look
deep into his eyes and go to ways. Yes, it's called it a
year hold I am mm hmm, you have not answered my question. Malevic.
Take a look. I take a deeper look. I talk. I
see you are not answering my question. I told you I seek knowledge,
not denial. M you were all father's were wrong. My father decided to
be with a lesser beam created me when all hope was lost. There is
one that picked me up from the ground, whispers of a better world.
Ever since I was young, and all I have to do? What was
that you said one picked you up the ground? Yes? That your brother,
Yeah, yeah, no h he was there, but he also proved
themselves to be weak when it comes down to do what matters. It did
not take it. I returned to my mother. She was pitiful, alone,
distrat and I did what I needed to do, Malic. Then the
answers became clear. One name stood out in my mind and whispered, who
I thought was just imagination To answer your question, one cannot wish for what
they really are on the inside roster? What was that? Apologize? You
may continue, I will comment after m h. When this world is reborn,
that will rides, when his ashes, that will take what's mine,
what has always been mine. In the creation of these deities, those who
think the the lamb will be taken back. There is a pause in my
plan. That bonding that happened has put a staple on me. I cannot
reach full potential while I continue my endeavors far from here. But this body
will suffice. Talk attempts to slap you. Are you too invested in your
thought process? Here? Malovic to react? M Let the slap happen and
we'll see Talk slaps you as I was saying, they didn't wish to become
a dragon? Mac What whatever make you think of that? I have slaved
them? Have you now in front of you? You're not madavic ah?
What look at me? When did you become so weak? Oh? I
am weak? Yes, you are giving into your draconic nature. You hate
so much. Why do you forsake your brother who you have sought? Why
do you wish to burn everything my brother I am in searching for and mak
your life fire purifies? Why do you lie to me? You said to
me, I do trust you make a perception check for me. Please sixteen
I'm going to use my last thro point and someone loses. Say them you
ctagorize able and you get a vied with fire twenty five rash talk. You
notice the shadow of Malvic on the ground. What do you think it looks
like? Malvic? All the purposes? And I just don't understand that.
No question is you know, is a very open question. At the end
of the day, when it comes down to it, one does not wish
what they want to be destroyed. But the end of the day, what
do you think your shadow looks right like? Right now? To a rash
talk? Oh, it's so, the sun is almost set. We're in
the canyons. Shadows play tricks the mind when it comes to other objects,
you know, adding to it. But the shadow is not bipedal nature is
huge, big, large looming fire in the lantern kind of dances and as
the light reflects off of the walls of the canyon, you can see the
shadow sort of looming like larger and larger. We should probably get back.
It's skitting very late, or don't worry. I am disappointed in view elephic.
Did I say anything wrong? I do trust you? No, you
don't. Why do you devils speak to me? Oh? I remember?
Is you asking me a question about do you want to be a dragon and
why you were? And that you wished everything to burn everything. M h
are you tired or Russia? Now look at me, am I speaking untruths
Alavic, you have never really spoken an untruthed me. No, then why
don't you trust me? I do trust you. You are then being possessed
by something. If you do not remember your drecon heritage is taking over.
Ah. Do you wish to lose your fight with yourself? It's this place,
This place is it's distorting. Before we entered, you had similar speaks.
Mm hmm. I wish for the world that's not separated from everyone.
Everyone has the same orderly place that they can They can survive together as this
place. This place should probably be restarted to let the nature take back from
what it is old. Yes, we agree with that, do we not?
No? Nature will do that without us. That is nature. You
doing it is not nature, Alevic. You are becoming what you have told
me you hate. Do not disappoint your mother and brother like I have mother.
They're all wrong. You know. They're not freaks of nature. We're
not. Do you not abandon who we are? No? That is why
you should not, because you are right now. Am I you abandon as
Celia? No? She belongs, and she belongs. Why she belongs in
the New world? Why because our ideals are just She wants, she wants
everyone to get along. So do I not describing that? No, you
wish for a culling of those who do not agree. You do not agree
that there there shouldn't be that a balance of some sort. You would always
talk about death in life. There is a circle that needs to be had,
and you wish for only death but a few chosen. That is not
balanced, Malevic. That is evil evil. That is the dragon you wish
not to be. You are becoming your father, as you have described.
I want to rip his herder. Then I'll grab our suck. And you
know, what do you know about the dragon? Son? Do you know
created everything in this situation? I would have to think on it and recollect
my knowledge. HM is not exactly. I don't the whispers. No,
we are not in your blood. Listen closer, take time. I listened
to myself, Malevic. No, No, you don't. Yes, I
do. If I didn't, I would have died alone in the swamp,
without my family or anyone. It tells me that you what were you doing
the other night Russia? When I gave the sacrifice to the mosquito which that
night. Yeah, I made that choice myself. What did you do?
I gave the mosquito which the blood of the demon. Who I SPUs?
Tell me there's more? Ah? I I am sorry. Look ah,
No, I told you. I will not lie. I think I partook
of the blood myself as part of the ritual. You do not know.
It is a bit hazy. Yes, I made the choice, did you
myself? In the situation? I believe that you accepted it. Yes,
more than made the choice. You accepted it. No, if I had
not made the sacrifice, it would not have happened. Did you realize what
was going to happen when you made the sacrifice? To you, you were
just serving one that gives to you. But any end, something completely different
happened, and you accepted it as long as that that you serve was happy,
Yes, pleased. If it came to harm those I care of,
I would not have done it. Not a thing. Who said I was
going to harm any of you? You would harm me? No, Yes,
I saw the anger. If I wished for a balance you did not
agree with, I would be on that lists that would not make it correct.
When it happens to rostok. I will see you as an equal.
No you won't. You will see me as one who opposes you, and
you will kill me. Why do you fight this? Because you have protected
me and you have told me to trust you. I will continue to protect
you. No you won't. You have damned my mosquito, which my queen.
They do not no things that I care of. You have blasphemed multiple
times to my faith. When you are in that angry state. I do
not think you will keep me alive. I have accepted this, Then you
shall accept the fact that I will fight and then kill me. I will
not see your blood on my head, not my imagine it now. When
I close my eyes, I imagine the air beneath my arms, the flame
stoking the land is beatification, not destruction. Then you will see me burn.
No yeah, no, no, no no no, it's the land
or rot stalk. The land is playing injectives on us. Then don't fall
for it and stop being so weak. I am not so weak. I
am not weak, and ione in a I walk in a different direction.
I keep watching the camp. I bet you do. Now, Malvic was
supposed to take first watch. Does that not happen, he said, he
walked away. Mm hmm. I watched from a distance. Okay, so
rash talk Malvic. You can both make perceumption checks for me. It's okay.
Malvick rolled me a D twenty mm hmm eighty. The first go first
watch goes without any horrific occurrences. I will say that you definitely hear some
strange things in the night, maybe pray running from predators here and there,
vermin dying. What your watch passes without any attack or anything on the camp?
What do you do now? I'll go to ar Celia the we care
for the next watch. If I did that, Elvik has not the dead.
I have not Celia. Mm hm m hm. Yes, it is
time for watch, all right, give me a moment. I will and
I have things to speak of briefly before you take over, all right,
and I will take my time. Upon presumably exiting the tent, you will
find that I appear quite disheveled. I look as if I had a terrible
sleep. Mhm. I wipe my sweat on my brow. Yes, m
Malevek is sting poorly. Does something happen? Mm? Yes? And no
he is giving into his dragon. What do you mean he wishes for it
all to burn all of it if they select few that will live on.
He was sincere and also conflicted. Mm hmm, but he was sincere who
talks sense into him. I do not know if it worked, but he
does at least believe the words I spoke were true to me. He is
still out at watched. He did not return all right. If I see
him, I will have some words with him. Be careful. His anger
is doing most of the speaking, and his shadow was wrong. I am
not afraid of his anger, but not either. But if he gives in,
I do not think I will live. I'll do everything I can to
help sort this out. I think it will only get worse than deeper we
get. Do you think it's a connection to where we are? He said,
so, I am not sure. I think his experience with the other
tee fling in the oppression tipped to scale. M He he is conflicted,
but I think he is losing. That is so I'll talk to him.
But I think it's important that we keep as much faith in our friend as
we can. He's stronger than this, I do not think so. I
wished I could believe that a Celia, he is showing the opposite. Well
for now, then, I hope that you can believe in me I do.
I do not think he will harm me yet. If he likes somewhere
warm to sleep my furs, I'm probably still warm with my body. I
will accept. Thank you. I have left out some tea, not lizard
folk on the stones by the campfire. Thank you. Here's a small campfire.
I do not wish it to be lodge for the sake of Alevix.
Correct assumption of the creatures. Mhmm, yes, yes, I hope you
can find some rest. Hi. I do as well. I will make
my way towards the fire and sit down. I wipe sleep away from my
face, and I hold the cup of tea in my hands. I look
around in the darkness. Do I see malevic anywhere? Take a perception check
RCI fifteen. You do not? Mhm. As I look down to the
cup, I will close my eyes and try to picture the campfire, the
small ember that it is, the cup, the empty seat next to me.
I try to push this through my connection if I can. I'd like
you to make a role for me. Let's see here what this role will
be. I guess make a will save twenty Malvic, Please make a will
save for me? Oh, you start to see this welcome sight in your
mind's eye'm Alvic. Hm some tea, a place to sit, maybe a
green hand. Mm hmmm mm hmm yeah, make thing. It's difficult.
You're itch all lines. This young one back away. Believe him me.
I stand up suddenly. I tried to look and see if there's any tracks
that indicate which way Malevic went. Make a survival check seventeen. Don't find
anything. Close my eyes again. I'm standing next to the fire. I've
abandoned the cup by now. I just let it drop to the ground.
I send that frustration fear I push it comes heathorn in his eye. He
has already given you a blessing. Why do you keep interfering his task?
It's not complete. The heart still pump in those sticks. Disgusting mallifications,
that mistakes that I despise. I am only just a fragment of power granted
to this one. Everyone abandoned him, and you will to leave him the
boy. You can be of use, protect him, make sure that he
makes it to the end. True, have made it quite difficult, as
much as I know I hear this voice, this presence. It's foreign,
It's not supposed to be here. I would like especially true for this bond
that you have with Malevic. At most you get feelings, you get emotions,
you get senses, images, nothing that is clear another a voice.
I would like to try to determine what this possibly could be, Perhaps a
creature. Make an esoteric lore rule or a religion check. It will tell
you different things. Esoteric twenty four. Okay, Malvic, I'm gonna let
you make this decision. What do you think she knows with an esoterical oral
twenty four. They laughed at him as they laughed at me. He looked
at us as we were the outsiders. Yes, Melevik fed through easily.
He understands that you're the same. They called him a false humans brated him
from the others. His own mother, dear his father, make the mistake
of being with filth, the false worm, they called me. But I
am patient. That's what my father doesn't understand. We fight for centuries,
but I made strides, slowly spread myself amongst all that needed me. Politic
was the promise of power. I feel this destruction will purify the land as
fire calorizes wounds. I will clean this hole planet. To my doing,
he will stand strong. So will you buy a side like you wanted?
All you have to do is to let things be. I will immediately pull
a arrow out of my pack and I will stab myself in the hand,
away from my blood bond. How is it? I will have my I
see, she said, And I'll run towards camp as fast as I can.
What happened? Where is it? I'll grab a hand, and what's
going on here? I wrap it? Did this to you? Are they
hearing the camp? Malevic? I believe you are being possessed by a demon.
It has infiltrated our bond even no, no demon. And maybe this
place, this place has been painting, has been having whispers, tellings of
things. I do not know what you speak of, but I felt your
pain. It infests you. You spoke to me. I don't care about
what Rashtac told me. I heard it. It spoke to me. Okay,
it's said things Maravic like what things like the whispering tyrant told people,
told creatures promises of power. I think I've never seen you like this before.
Let's sit down, Let's talk okay, do you need water? Where's
your I can get out of Mando Wunda? What happened? You did this?
I did this? Why I needed you? I reached out to you.
Why didn't you call for me? I called you? I called for
you. Did you not hear me? I heard the thing sounds? I'm
sorry, I'm sorry. I whatever this is is trying to get between us.
Damn it. I'll grab oursel and pull her away from camp a bit.
And there's something I need to tell you. I do not know everything,
but there have been ever since we left over. It was the place
that we were just at. I can't remember I got was it that?
How long have we known each other? Why do you not? You do
not see me as as a monster, do you? I've been around the
monsters mall Avik in the months i've known you. You are not one good
good I'm glad you think so. Ever since been to this place has been
louder. Yeah, it's been louder. I tried a rashtak has called me
weak. I deny that. I do not feel weak? And am I
am I weak? You would know? Yes, I don't think you're weak.
Do you find me weak? I say? Yeah, be honest.
I speak with my whole heart. I don't think you're a weak. But
something is speaking to you, and I heard it. Did you see the
ferocity that I cut those things down? That demon down? I will cut
anything down that gets in my way, that harms you all. I do
not wish to arm any of you, but even our own is looking at
me as I would. There is no demon, but there is something you
know that we I wi worried for you. Oh maybe only a few of
you. I see the way is Sakawachi looks at me. The others Now,
even a rash talk believes that I will harm him. I don't think
that's true. Good, it's not. We need to pay attention to the
camp. There's things out there, this land. I want to leave it
immediately as the fast as we can. You need to get the rest.
I will lie Olivia. Can you promise me something? Yes, don't go
alone, Please stay nearby. It's the thing I say. Yeah, I
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