We rested and started heading back to Vimgalier, taking it slow for a few days. Me and Max were real tired. Swindle seemed really thoughtful. Variel was the same, as always. With Dryk we always had enough food and didn’t really come across anything dangerous until… we found ogre tracks. Dryk said that’s pretty rare, but not totally impossible or anything. The bad thing was… they were going the same way as us.
Everybody started to get a bad feeling, but nobody wanted to talk about it. Nobody talked much at all, the rest of the way. When we got closer to town, Swindle found some blood in the snow and.. the tracks kept on going straight for Vimgalier. When we were real close to town, where that big boxy canyon is, I sent Prim on ahead to check it out. I told him to stay way up high and not get seen, but I was still worried….
Prim met up with us again when we were kinda circling the canyon to come in from a different angle. He sent me a real yucky taste-feeling, and something that looked like a real scribbly picture of the canyon, from above. It looked like maybe some wagons that got turned over, some trees, and… two ogres.
We ambushed them, but then they counter-ambushed us, cause there was an ogre-mage and a wizard hiding up on the other side of the canyon. He was real mad, and kept shouting “give it to me!” but he wouldn’t answer any questions. He counter-spelled Swindle’s Lightning spell, too. After we killed the ogres the wizard got out a green gem that looked familiar, and then the ogres’ skeletons pulled themselves out of their ogre-meat and tried to kill Max and Variel !!
We killed them again, and I killed the wizard. When he died something kinda weird happened with my crystals and like… his necromancy magic, I guess. When I hit him, they didn’t grow like usual, it was like.. They got eaten? And then something happened from the green crystal he was holding, and it went all over him and he… melted, or something? I was far away, I’m not sure. When I got over there, there was almost nothing left but a big um… wizard-smear.
I wonder who he was or how we knew we took the thing out of the tower….