Gnoll and Coin (separately) arrive on Patchwork

Life, Supernatural

Gnoll (with her spider, Nan) arrives on Patchwork.
Coin arrives on Patchwork.
They reluctantly team up for survival, find an entrance to the rail tunnel under Torn Lofte and begin trying to find a way out.

In Gnoll's 64th autumn, she and Nan were traveling through yet another wood, collecting Nature's small baubles and hunting greater Knowledge, when Nan scuttled into a burnt-out hole in a giant, gnarled oak. It was so deep and the entrance concealed with arboreal debris, that Gnoll couldn't even see through to the rear wall of the tree. Nan rarely raced off like that. When she didn't emerge after being called several times, Gnoll became worried and followed her Companion into the oak...   … And woke up here, wherever "here" is.