Jarrith goes over the letter in his head a few times, listening to the discussion the others are making. His brow furrows and he points a finger at the scroll.
"Let's not get carried away here, and start finding bogeymen behind every corner. All we have is this one man's note saying that the love of his life has been cursed by some supposed witches. For all we know, these 'witches' are nothing more than the girl's family, and there's a lover's dispute involved. That would certainly explain why nothing's been done in Barovia about them... because to everyone else, there ARE NO witches."
He looks over to his Lumin Brother and shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know what the Claw would hope to gain by trying to use this letter to set up an ambush. If they were in the area, they could pounce on us here if they really cared... it's not like we have an army around the corner to rush in to help defend us. Granted, if there's several villages up here in the mountains, they could use this note to hopefully get us to go to a wrong one... but as none of us know where the tome might be in the first place, that seems unlikely."
Jarrith wraps his speech up by looking at all of the group. "I don't think this note changes our plans one bit... with the exception that we now have an 'in' with the town. If nothing else, we now have a desperate man probably willing to attend on us when we arrive, and we don't have to waste time trying to 'make nice' with the locals first. And getting that foot in the door will be the first step on finding the tome."
