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<blockquote data-quote="Once a Fool" data-source="post: 2661016" data-attributes="member: 35783"><p><strong>Chapter Ten</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white">Evangeline had saved the ones she could. Most were poisoned. Now free of the Spider Plane, as Crone called it, they would recuperate. Crone had healed more than a few, herself, calling on the Spirits of the Wood for such grace.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><em>Crone's blind gaze pierced Evangeline. Held her. </em></span><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"It is time for you to be a beacon, child. Do not wander astray, yourself. The path you have chosen is also the path that has chosen you. It is a difficult one to follow. When hope is lost, you must be hope. When all is lost, you must be something to cling to."</em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white">Enok was here now, too, but the first child he had left scarred with terrible burns ensured that the Fire God would be healing no more from the Lost Haven.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Some of the folk did not survive. The rest had to learn that they no longer had any home to return to.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><em>Was it right not to say how it happened, if nobody asked?</em></span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">The time came for Evangeline to do the most difficult thing she had ever had to do.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Sylvan's only family, his aunt, Gilded Sunlight, could not bear Evangeline's company once she heard his fate. Neither would comfort each other.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><em>Move on. There is work to do.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Evangeline moved on.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">In the following weeks, two populations started to come to terms with their situation.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Rumor spoke of civil war in the Human Cities and of refugees pressing in from the East.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Rumor spoke of the walking dead in the South and of dwarves and orcs pressing Northward.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Rumor spoke of many ills, but an elf did not have to look so far away to find trouble.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">When tension seemed at its height, Crone summoned the four of them, Lo Chi, Ororck, Merv, and Evangeline. Celest was also present, looking uncharacteristically uncomfortable.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Crone spoke:</span></p><p></p><p>"They can stay. If the four of you retrieve for me the Eye of Illusions from the House of Phantoms, west of here, in the Heart of the Forest."</p><p></p><p><span style="color: white">The Heart of the Forest? Whatever that was, it would have to be past the river.</span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Thus, Evangeline found herself saying goodbye to her parents yet again. She had seldom felt as lonely.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Once a Fool, post: 2661016, member: 35783"] [b]Chapter Ten[/b] [color=white]Evangeline had saved the ones she could. Most were poisoned. Now free of the Spider Plane, as Crone called it, they would recuperate. Crone had healed more than a few, herself, calling on the Spirits of the Wood for such grace. [i]Crone's blind gaze pierced Evangeline. Held her. [/i][/color][i] "It is time for you to be a beacon, child. Do not wander astray, yourself. The path you have chosen is also the path that has chosen you. It is a difficult one to follow. When hope is lost, you must be hope. When all is lost, you must be something to cling to."[/i] [color=white]Enok was here now, too, but the first child he had left scarred with terrible burns ensured that the Fire God would be healing no more from the Lost Haven. Some of the folk did not survive. The rest had to learn that they no longer had any home to return to. [i]Was it right not to say how it happened, if nobody asked?[/i] The time came for Evangeline to do the most difficult thing she had ever had to do. Sylvan's only family, his aunt, Gilded Sunlight, could not bear Evangeline's company once she heard his fate. Neither would comfort each other. [i]Move on. There is work to do.[/i] Evangeline moved on. In the following weeks, two populations started to come to terms with their situation. Rumor spoke of civil war in the Human Cities and of refugees pressing in from the East. Rumor spoke of the walking dead in the South and of dwarves and orcs pressing Northward. Rumor spoke of many ills, but an elf did not have to look so far away to find trouble. When tension seemed at its height, Crone summoned the four of them, Lo Chi, Ororck, Merv, and Evangeline. Celest was also present, looking uncharacteristically uncomfortable. Crone spoke:[/color] "They can stay. If the four of you retrieve for me the Eye of Illusions from the House of Phantoms, west of here, in the Heart of the Forest." [color=white]The Heart of the Forest? Whatever that was, it would have to be past the river. Thus, Evangeline found herself saying goodbye to her parents yet again. She had seldom felt as lonely.[/color] [/QUOTE]
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