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[Jeb]

Moondrop stares at the fire as she thinks about what Marut has said. She recalls her own words to Stormsong that the pack is stronger together. And she never would have defeated that monster on her own. She goes pale just thinking about meeting another one alone.

Somehow she had thought of the danger being connected to the place where the others are and being away was safe, but it might be safer if they are all together.

"You said you thought there were others that may need help, and there are. Why didn't you go with Yare to them?"

[Berit]

Toad sens Antaka a vision of an elk, it is something like they found dead next to the tower, but that might have been a head of an actual elk... Toad sens to Antaka...

"I do not know what to make of this, but his anger and shock are no lie... something has happened to him... Yet... Wander did not understand why he was attacked... something is missing here..."

Yare shivers a bit when Laluna offers him broth, he knows what he had done and doesn't know if he should accept... in the end he does, tears fall from his face as he drinks the broth.. suddenly sound of little hooves is heard, the Goat also walks downstairs to meet all of them... and because Toad is bend over, the most, she happily jumps on his back and just stands there... Toad looks very confused...

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Marut looks at Moondrop, despite harshness he has experienced surviving alone, his silver eyes are surprisingly kind...

"Because I think you need more help... yes he is not a survivor like we are... but we can easily track where he went later on... but you look so... lost... so I wanted to be here for you..."

Marut's bearded face turns to a little smile...

"what ever bothers you, I will always listen... and help you... like I should have done long ago..."

then suddenly a strange scream can be heard! it is... like a fox but not... there is a strange wooden sound to it as well... Marut says...

"there it is again! you see what I meant by it? I want to find out what is making that sound..."

[Jeb]

Moondrop's eyes widen in surprise when Marut says that she needs help, but she almost jumps out of her skin when the scream starts.

She decides that she will stay with Marut and help him find the source of the scream. "How do we do that?"

[Berit]

"Like we are hunting for a prey... let us sneak and wait and watch..."

Marut says and he lifts his bow... he clearly doesn't want to attack the "prey" if it is something dangerous or completely harmless, he just wants to hunt it down simply to see what it is... the scream can he heard again and with it the strange wooden sound... it sort of sounds like a fox mating call but it is different...

[Jeb]

Moondrop stands and turns slowly. "Where is that sound coming from?"

[Berit]

They listen to the sound and it clearly comes from near by... Marut starts heading to the direction fast but quietly... they hear it again... they are getting closer... Marut peeks carefully over the juniper bushes... they hear other sounds too, something walking... it is smaller than a reindeer, and sometimes very light on it's step... it is also sneaking, hunting something...

[Czarine]

Laluna watches over Yare as he drinks the broth. Her gaze turns instinctively to his injured ear, but she knows that she must conserve her strength to help Wander later. Besides, she's not sure if her new tribemates would appreciate her healing a possible enemy...

Laluna turns her attention to the hatch when she hears the hooves. She had already forgotten the little goat! She chuckles when it jumps on top of Toad.

"Oh, right! This is Wolfsbane, our new "tribemate"..." she smiles.

(Aww, I'm so glad to hear you like Laluna, Yavia! She's not the strongest nor a very skilled character, but she tries her best to be kind to everyone. )

[Yavia]

(That's what I like about Laluna! She is not the strongest and allways kind)
(I don't meant Antaka injured Yare's ear - I meant it will be like if you take a hit or fold your ear hard, it throb and be hot and uncomfortable,  - but not wounded. Antaka don't pierce a hole in it. No need to be healed.)

Antaka looks at the goat and gets it from Toads back. "That's no place to be, little one"  (I personally don't know how to deal with goats. Maybe she pulls it by the horns? Or lift's it up and away? Lifting seems more caring for her with goats.) She lifts it from his back and gets it back on the ground a few steps away. "Stay", she said. The goat looks at her.  She pulls out the last few droplets of dried and crumb brisket's she feeds her goats as reward from her pocket. She looks the goat up and finds it in good health but hungry and full of milk. She will need a bucket so much milk there was.
"Wolfsbane?", she wonders about the name. Her eyes watch Yare again, but he seems peaceful. She stroke the goat. "Is the broth empty? I need a vessel to milk her. It can hurt her if the udder is that full."Again she looks at Yare. Still drinking and peaceful.
"Can there be two Wanders? The one we meet and the one Yare is talking off? That can't be the same person. He reacts not like one who doomed his tribe and one of them comes back."  She was very interested to hear how Yare escaped, but how could she ask him to go on with his story if it stresses him so much?

[Jeb]

Moondrop follows Marut cautiously.

(Roll of 6 if she should need it.)

[Czarine]

(Ah, now I see! I wasn't sure how hard Antaka hit him.  )

Laluna watches with curiosity how Antaka picks up the little goat. She seems to know a thing or two about them and Laluna decides that she must learn from her when she has time.

"Ah, her name... She earned it when she tried to make friends with Stormsong, and he got so scared that he ran away." Laluna smiles, amused. She wonders if the big wolf has got the courage to return...

Laluna looks around the place to see if there's another vessel for the milk. She wonders about Antaka's words of there being two Wanders. Could that somehow be true?

"The Wander we know seems very different from yours." she looks at Yare.

"He seemed heartbroken that many of your tribe had died... and left him here to die alone." she wonders aloud.

"When we came here, he was very worried that anything should happen to us, even so much to come out and seek us in his weak condition, when the tower was attacked." she looks at Yare, studying his expressions.

"So far we know that there's bad magic in the mountain, which affects even the weather here... maybe it can also affect our hearts? Has Wander always been as you describe him?" she asks Yare.

[Berit]

Antaka Lures to Wolfsbane off of toad's back, but something is... odd about this Goat, she has never one that looks like it... then Antaka understands what it is! it is a hybrid of a sheep and a mountain goat! it has coarse wool, a mixture of sheep soft wool and mountain goats harsher hair... it's udders are that of a female goat and it has tiny horns... Wolfsbane Baas softly and touches Antaka with her nose!... the last of the broth is is finally gone... the pot s empty, Yare seems sad and tired... but every time he looks at Wander the same anger rises to his eyes...

"No... he was a good but little too soft chief... then he got obsessed with some treasure and it all went horribly downhill from there! he became pushing us, harder and harder, forcing us to leave out home by lying that there was some disease spreading... all the exhausting, sorrow... death... he is the cause of it!..."

Yare shivers in anger... Toad says...

"indeed, it seems like a very different person than the Wander we know... but no one kills anyone while I'm here... we shall speak once Wander can do so..."

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Moondrop manages to sneak behind a snowy stump and happens close to the prey, and she sees it! it is the Foxhunter! the blood chilling scream can be head again as he blows into a whistle that is made to mimic fox calls... Moondrop managed to get right behind him and he has no clue she is there... he will most likely run away like last time if they try to talk to him... he has a little decorative ball made of fur in his clothes that has Stormsong's scent on it! he has been so close to the tower that he has collected his fur!...

[Yavia]

Antaka smiled at the info about Stormsong. Hopefully he will come back but he was a wild animal after all. This goat not at all. Antaka wonders about the hybrid and takes a look at Toad to insure he will continue watching over Yare. She will clean her hands and the empty pot but hesitates. She have to go outside for it? If so she uses the water from her waterskin instead, warms her hands and start milk the goat.
"What kind of disease? First time I hear that. Wasn't it treasure he was after? Sounds to me Wander just snapped. But he don't seem to remember his horrible behaviour. He greeted you like a lost friend happy to see you again, Yare." when she has finished she offers the milk to anyone even Yare. He seems much hungry. "Did you see the death monster outside? Was it the one who killed your tribe?" She ask as soft as possible. She don't want him to vomit again that leads nowhere.

[Berit]

Toad seems to be holding Yare firmly, even Mehadrin slowly comes forward and looks at Wander... Wolfsbane seems relieved to get some of the milk out so She rubs her nose on Antaka...

Yare seems hesitant to drink the milk at first and looks Antaka with his pinkish eyes, even his eyelashes are pure white... But slowly he accepts and takes a sip... He seems surprised of the it, he clearly isn't used to it bu doesn't hate the taste... The he talks..

"Yes, he convinced us that there was a terrible disease spreading, shoewed us animals that were killed by it... But now when I think about it, it all was suspicious... That the disease appeared out of no where when half of the tribe Did not want to go on Wander's crazy treasure hunt..."

Then Yare looks confused and asks...

" What dead monster outside? I saw no such thing near your tower..."

[Yavia]

Antaka looks at each of them. Did Yare just came from the wrong direction or did the monster vanish? What bigger monster had the strengh to carry the body away?
Something on this place was terrible wrong...
 she eager to run outside and check if the dead body was still there. To check on herself if she dreamed the encounter or be hexed like Wander must have been.
"Should we go outside and check it?" She asks no one in particular but her look comes to a rest on Toad. "Should we took Yare with us? It can't hurt he gets some space between him and Wander and some fresh air."

[Czarine]

Laluna listens to Yare's description of Wander in silence. Wander didn't give the impression of a crazy leader, even if he did have some signs of staying at the tower for too long alone.

Laluna looks puzzled when Yare speaks of no monster outside.

"But... surely you saw the great beast we killed? It looked a bit like a boar..." she asked, confused.

She looked at Antaka and Toad too. A carcass that large can't go unseen.

"It won't hurt to check. I will stay and watch over Wander." she nodded to Antaka.

[Berit]

Toad nods and lifts Yare up, accidentally too high at first so Yare's feet hang above the ground, Then he lowers him to the ground level...

"Take good care of mister Wander, my magnificent Blue Jay..."

Wander says and bows a little to Laluna... Antaka and Toad drag Yare outside and as they arrive to the field where they fought the beast, only a carcass of a big boar is found laying there!... Toad jumps from the surprise...

"A-a boar!? But... But how??.."

[Jeb]

Moondrop feels foolish for letting her fear get the better of her before. She wanted to run away, and all that's here is a simple hunter making noise.

She looks around to see what Marut is doing and sends to him "What now? We won't get any answers if he sees us and runs."

She prepares to follow him as carefully as she can in hopes she won't be seen.

[Berit]

Marut's sending is surprisingly muddled like he has hard time sending!...

"We... surprise attack... try to... get him down.... not... hurt him... just stop him... I lay in wait.... if he escapes.... you...."

He cannot send that well! it might have something to do with him being weirdly five fingered... the Fox hunter blows into his whistle again and looks around him... then he spots a little white fox, the fox hunter slowly bulls out his small bow...

[Jeb]

Moondrop nods to Marut in agreement with his plan. While the fox hunter is focused on aiming, Moondrop jumps at him.

Dice roll = 5

[Czarine]

(Go Moondrop!!! )

Laluna goes to sit beside Wander. She's still feeling weak from the healing, but it's passing already.

She looks at his face in silence, thinking about the whole situation. Could Wander really have caused so much grief to Yare? She finds it hard to imagine.

Laluna decides to check if there's any milk left in the bowl. She wants to try if she could feed some of it to Wander, by dipping a piece of cloth into the milk that he could suck on if he cannot drink it. It just might be difficult when he's still unconscious.

(Laluna's roll: 5)

[Berit]

Moondrop succeeds in completely surprising him, the hunter gets so scared he drops his bow and Moondrop shoves him face first in the snow! the fox runs away immediately when the ruckus starts, Marut also gets ion top of the fox hunter and the for hunter guards his face! he thinks a bit animal is attacking him! then slowly he sees they are elves! he seems to notice Moondrop is from the tower... finally he suddenly laughs...

"alright, Alright! you caught me!... hahaha! I thought you could not do it!..."

He looks at them with his dark eyes but smiles...

"well, now that we met, have you seen my brother? red haired, mostly nude, obnoxious... stupid beard..."

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Laluna sits beside Wander, he looks even paler than normally now that he has lost blood, his face is still beautiful but illness has left it's marks... Laluna dips the cloth and tries to get wander to drink, his swallowing reflex seems to be working luckily so Laluna gets some milk down... Wolfsbane lays down nest to Laluna and puts her head on Laluna's lap...

[Czarine]

(Ahaha, I misread the description to be "...red-haired, mostly rude, ..." and I thought "Yup yup! Sounds like Mehadrin!" )

Laluna is relieved when she finds that Wander swallows some milk from the cloth. She decides to give him as much milk as there's left on the bowl.

Laluna smiles when Wolfsbane joins Laluna in the task.

"Looks like you might be vital at getting Wander's strength back." she says to her and scratches her behind the ear.

[Berit]

(Well he is nude AND rude! so both would have been accurate!)

Wolfsbane keeps her hear in Laluna's lap and clearly has a goatly smile when she receives ear scratches... she baas and wags her little tail, she has no idea what she is saying but wants to be part of the conversation... Wander suddenly lets out a moan... then he slightly opens his eyes and looks around, he looks at Laluna... and weakly touches her leg to really understand that she is there... he asks...

"Y-Yare?..."

[Jeb]

Moondrop shakes her head that she hasn't seen his brother.

She points to the ball of fur he wears. "That's Stormsong's fur. Were you the one out in the terrible blizzard? What were you doing? Did you see us there? Why did you run away?"

[Berit]

The fox hunter smiles a bit mischievously...

"Yeah! that was me! and of course I ran away! lots of weird elves came after me like they had piss in their veins! Hahaha! You would've ran as well!... I'm just... not so fond of big groups... I feel nervous in them..."

His dark eyes look at Moondrop and he suddenly smiles, jokingly with a flirty expression...

"Well, you going to get off me or confess your love to me?..."

the hunter shakes his eyebrows...