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We leave the dungeon and once again see the woods. The breach remains, but we see the roots around the exit are still. We can hear birdsong and see fresh animal tracks in the snow; the forest seems to be a just normal forest. We can feel no pulse under our feet and the sounds we hear are not threatening

As we leave the forest and can see the mountains in the distance we see a dark rider upon the ridge. It watches us then slowly turn away over the ridge. The outline looks similar to the figure we saw in the rigging of the ship a while back, but cannot make out any detail. 

We continue back and we startreturn to seeMoonrest Moonrest.where Bran counts us back in and is happy to see us.he He looks back to the woddswoods and saystells the'reveus there have been no further root breachesbreaches, so it looks like something worked. He takes us to the LOngLong House to see ESElder Saelin to tellgive her whatour happened.report.

Yselle also appears asking for andan update. AAethlwynn prods SebSebastien and tells him to show Yselle the heart.heart he harvested. Yselle looksexamines atit it,before Salus hands oveover the sketches.sketches Sheshe made. Yselle says Merrick's name keeps appearing whenwhenever questions are assked.asked Aand needs to investigate further. Aethlwynn asks if she can help, but again, Yselle says she works best alone. ESElder sayasSaelin warmly tells us that as theythe roots are no longer beingan drivenissue it'swe've done enough for now.now Sheand saysthat we need a good feed and sleep. Garron was also in the longLong houseHouse looking at somewhat ofwe thebrought evidence.back. He's noremore interested in the stone work and will pop into Yselle's to look atsee the stone work.sketches.

AAethlywynn mentions the rider.rider ESwe saw. Elder Saelin pauses and starts speculating out loud that it could be the compact,Compact, or someone pretending to be them/them. SheBut she sends us to the Tide and Stars where Mara will have a hot meal for us. AAethlwynn says she'll output in a good word for Seb,Sebastien, who again denies being a hero.

The bar is visibly louder, the food is thereserved and the conversation seems normal. Mara welcomes warmly,us in and we relax and Mara gives SebSebastien a pair of spoons and asks him to play. He starts to play as Mara watches. AAethlwynn tells Mara SebSebastien is alsobeing very modest about how brave he was. The tavern sings along with SebSebastien and the villagers have a great time. As it gets late folk start to go home assas do we.

The next day passes with no emergency, no roots and no blue pulse. Hunters leave Moonrest and return.return safely. Moonrest seems to have returned to normalnormal.

SebSebastien is going to see the tideTide wardedWarden and the Shrine keeperKeeper as he's privately concerned about blacking out in combat and having the strange feeling that another person wants to take control.control neitherof him. Neither feel it's their area of expertise.expertise and refer him to Lysa who may be able to help due to her role with the dead. HeSebastien alsoand checksAethwold howcontinue histo plan the Hurdy Gurdy isand going.realise Wethey checkneed withmore atimber. woodworker (Aeths) on the progress

Guru want to work on his Long Hammer sobut needs tries to get as manymore iron ingots as he can.ingots. Guru and AethsAethswold go mining.mining Aethsas Aethsowold also needs iron for his arrow heads. Aethswold crafts a staff orfor Salus and goestravels out of Moonrest to get more frost hardened wood. heHe gets some more resin sap nadand root fibre.fibre Thenas hewell. He then heads to the pine forest tpto get pine bark. SebSebastein gives Guru some tanned leather.

Aethlwynn tries to craft a healing potion, but can't quite get it right.

One night in the Tavern AethAethswold gets a message to speak to Lysa at the graveyard. She stands beside a grave we don't recognise - brushing the snow from the stone. She says to aeth he knows the death matters, generlly death has rules and boundaries. She says one name survived the hollowed necromancer. She asks Aeths what death means to him She is pleased wwith his answer

the is a place inland - the frozen fenn older than peille remember, peol[le ehwl believed the could use the dead and ljne account mentions there were graves for the living. she needs us to visut the fen and  asks what has been buried and.

Aeths asks if we need to b eaware of and anything we cakn help as hfar as ashe know it has been lond abandoned for over 100 yers. what was once ther has been defeated, but what was once ther has been abandonedx. she believes ates needs to be there for his own growth

it's about 20 miles away - about 2 days

as we leave the rave yard seb sees lysa starig at us. He things Lysa has deigns on aeths

We head into the middle of moonrest and get ready for the trrip. we ask if the village need anything from round there

we trade for tents and bed rolls - Guru gives 4 bog iron ingots inxchange