Gnoll Trouble

Gnoll - Bipedal hyena, intelligent
Largest one of the pack had strange symbols on it's fur and wore a glowing tooth. That, I would like to take a closer look at.
 
The farms more recent skirmish was with that of hyenas. Normal ones. One that had been injured beforehand was said to have had a large bite wound. It was not pursued due to the severity of it's injury.
 
One of the bodies at the farm (presumably one of the deceased farmers?) was in a process of transformation? Scales and fur. I touched it.
 
A fierce pack of foes, the gnolls we encountered were quite a task to take down. They were capturing and eating Moonplague patients. (What is the Moonplague? Surely one of the others would know. I'll ask later.) Communication with the gnoll pack was not achievable. Through a language barrier, or refusal to answer?
 
It would not matter either way, I suppose. These people suffered a cruel fate to them.
 
Some survivors yet live.
 
[A few unfinished sentences are scratched out, the words that are still legible implying she struggled a bit trying to word the next part.]
 
We nearly lost Famros. I had two gnolls on either side of me, and he tried to assist me. I could do naught as he fell to the attack. If not for Machina's quick shooting, I fear to think it may have been too late by the time I could briefly flee, or finish, the fight to heal him.
 
I am glad he is alright now.
 
I have not known him for long, nor know him well, but he is truly a kind soul I'd be glad to call a friend.
 
Lily refers to me as such, though the same brief sliver of time is shared there as well. I worry as to what has caused her to be unable to see while Famros and I moved the bodies to the cave entrance. I shall ask her when this ordeal is past us. It was not pleasant, and I would like for her to have some respite before I ask, though concerned as I am.
 
Though I am happy to know she thinks of me as a friend, the matter that brought it forth is... concerning.
 
Sahala believes me to be a traitor. A traitor to whom? Or what? I must speak with her. She knows something about this tooth I wear. Whatever it signifies... I admit I am now uneasy to learn what it may be, since Lily has relayed that Sahala is wary of me. I will not deter from finding out. This is the reason I came to Montia after all.
 
[The next page is filled with smaller sketches of the runes that adorned the gnoll pack leader's fur.]