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Morning came without incident. No monsters, no gnolls, and no signs of anything malign in the grove. Sibi and Mama had already left the hut when he...

Even if Hana wasn't kicking and turning on their shared mattress, Serril knew he couldn't sleep. Guilt and fear ebbed and flowed like the tides, and...

Sibi's attention stayed fixed on the Gnoll as most of the elders filed past her on the way out of the lodge. No outlander had set foot in Home Grove...

"Very well, Eshket." Crazy-Mountain shifted her weight, causing the wooden chair to creak slightly. "You are our guest for now. We will protect...

Eshket bowed her head and stared, unfocused, as the moot descended into speech unknown to her. She could only guess at what they were planning. She...

The elders and Sibi had begun to gather close in a semicircle around Eshket, watching intently where she placed her marks. "Well-chosen ground."...

Eshket watched hungrily as Kam began sketching out a map using a charcoal stump. At first she was lost in the shapes and lines, until she realized...

At that, Kam's breath caught. She looked to Sibi, who averted her eyes. The momentary shock was brought under control, and she turned her attention...

Eshket swallowed hard again as her eyes darted from one firbolg to another. "I do not know what it was doing. As soon as it was discovered, it ran....

Elves were the most common outlanders in the Moonwood. Some weren't even outlanders at all - there were a few bands of Moon Elves to the south who...

Eshket's heavy brows crimped together as she focused her eyes on the scrap of parchment. She squinted, tilted her head, then sniffed prodigiously....

Mrs. Broadleaf looked back to Kam, who nodded. "Show her." Windra approached Eshket, and knelt in front of the Gnoll, unfolding the crumpled,...

Again, Eshket did not answer immediately, but this time it was not for a lack of understanding. She stared at the dirt floor, and her panting breath...

Sibi sat heavily into her seat at the back of the lodge room, Eshket's words landing like a cudgel. If what she was saying was true, a hundred or...

The gnoll swallowed hard, faltering under that milk-eyed stare. The word fealty was not in her modest vocabulary, but she felt she could make sense...

More murmuring spread through the half dozen elders. This was an invasion. Windra Broadleaf looked back to Crazy-Mountain, who shook her head....

Eshket gripped the earthen mug as well as she could with her paws still bound and half-numb, and rather than trying to tilt the vessel into her...

"What?" The tiefling tensed a little. He'd been running this racket for a while now, and he'd never had anyone try to flip the game around on him....

One of the prime elders reached for a clay carafe, pouring some lukewarm water into a simple drinking vessel, which was passed to the Gnoll. Beyond,...

Eshket was a good deal sorer now than when their journey had begun. If it wasn't bad enough knocking into roots and stumps she couldn't properly see...

Castor moved to loom silently over Aria's shoulder, not so close as to imply a threat, but close enough to cut off an easy escape to either side of...

Back at the Grove... Supper came and went, with no sign of either mama or Sibi. It left Serril without much appetite. He gave Tatva the pickle...

"Not just any child." She cautioned, turning her head so that her voice would not be muffled in her hood. "A child of the hells. I sense great...

At first, the tell-tale rattle of mail put Vermillion on alert. But it wasn't the Fist this time. Wasn't anyone, given the barren tabard. Adventurer?...

The horned matriarch stood with a grunt. "Take this one." She pushed Eshket towards Sibi, then snatched Barrdu up by his mohawk-like mane,...

"We could try... talking our way in." That earned a withering look from the hooded one, and the armored one grimaced. "The guards we saw looked...

Eshket yelped as she was bodily dragged down the slope to where Barrdu lay, her feet kicking impotently at the mud. She twisted her neck to look...

"Hm." Crazy-Mountain dismissed Eshket's explanation, looking back to Sibi. "Wake the other one." Sibi tore her attention away from where her...

"Maybe?" Eshket quailed when she saw the firbolg's eyes harden at the perceived non-answer. "What I mean... Many die in pass. And... many gnolls...

"Speak. I will decide the weight of your words. Fail, and by the Oak Father, I will tell the beasts of the Wild to hunt you as their quarry and...