Earning Forgiveness by Wren | World Anvil

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Thu 23rd Jan 2020 12:22

Earning Forgiveness

by Wren Birk

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Is that the phrase? It's applicable here. Almost immediately after we escaped Baron Oelrich, by the skin of our teeth, we went immediately into the forest to go find this...Wretch. To be fair, we didn't have a choice. We all had this super creepy dream about him and he said enough that made me want to be the one to kill him. "Slaughtered" is just a terrible word you know? That's a new emotion. I think I liked it.
 
So we ventured into the creepiest forest I've ever seen. It was like an evil forest that's in stories. There were these statues in very...disconcerting positions. We had to solve their riddles and speak to them which, honestly I was terrible at! I really thought I'd be able to impress my new friends- you know, with my brain and stuff, but I guess 'problem solving' isn't an area I've dabbled in too much. I did help them fight though, and was fairly good at it- when we finally did meet the Wretch, Jan, leader of the Bloaters. He did get a good strike in me though, and I'm still recovering. And I'll tell you, he was a scary motherfucker.
 
Even scarier was this .. lady. I know it sounds weird because she looked mostly normal, but there was something about her that made me very uneasy. She lives in this house behind the grove we found Jan at. Kept talking about "her children". Eleanora and I finally talked Celrin into leaving her be, she just...was very unsettling. Oh! Maybe because she's a witch! Witches always live in dark evil forests in stories.
 
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