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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sandain" data-source="post: 1784709" data-attributes="member: 19306">To Marshall EngleseaFrom Sergeant Akaroa3rd ranger Unit, Eversink Customs and Border ServiceDear Sir,Our unit tracked the bandits who Waylayed the Redridge merchant caravan.  We slew them to a man and have set about finding any survivors.  We tracked one we assume is a merchant who died of his wounds.  He was delirious but said a girl – Estrella – also survived and headed into the swamp.We tracked her for a week and found the unfortunate girl near Fly-rock, the stone shaped a bit like a fly near the territory of the dragon Sirius the Black.  She was riddled with maggots and leeches and was scarcely recognizable.  The insect life in this part of the swamp is supernaturally voracious it seems.We did find this fragment of a journal, and turn it over for council evidence.Your humble servant,Sergeant Bill AkaroaDaddy said I should write down our trip to Eversink so I wouldn’t forget our great adventure!  We are leaving our city (my brother Ben says it’s a village but what does he know) because Daddy says no one wants chairs and tables there.  Daddy is a carpenter and makes nice things for people.Since Mommy died I know Daddy has been sad and maybe moving to Eversink will make him happy.  I really miss my Mommy, but she is sleeping in a better place now.  I trust Daddy but when me and Ben found her in the woods it didn’t look like she was happy.  She smelt like a dead sheep we found last summer and had icky flies and white worms crawling all over her.  I ran away.  A bit later Daddy put her in the ground because that’s how she goes to a better place.  I don’t understand it.Moving to Eversink is a great adventure, I have my own stallion to ride.  Its not a mule like Ben says, he is a mighty battle horse!  We are travelling with a caravan with lots of iron bars and metal things.  I don’t think they have any iron in Eversink.  Maybe they got rid of it all because it was so heavy and that’s why its sinking?Today we came a cross a crossroad with a wicker cage.  Inside was a dead man.  I cried because it reminded me of Mommy – especially all the flies and white worms.  One of the iron merchants told me not to be scared of the worms – he calls them maggots.  And they are taking the mans soul to a nice place.  He says the flies and maggots are our friends.Travelling is not so much fun anymore. It has been raining and my bottom is sore.  Daddy gave me this empty book to practice my letters.  He says Mommy would want me to learn to read and write like she did.  I cant write much in the rain though.I am so scared.  As we were riding hissing came out of nowhere and people started falling off wagons and horses.  People and horses started screaming my horse Excelsior fell over and was bleeding from an arrow! I ran away into the trees and ran and ran and ran.I woke up mostly buried in mud and muck, I screamed because bugs were all over me.  A man came out of the trees, he was walking funny and he looked white.  I ran away but fell over and cut my arm and he caught me.  He was the a merchant from our caravan and he said he had to sleep soon.  He said not to scream because the bugs and flies are my friends and gave me a shell ring.  He told me to not go back to the caravan because bad men were there.I am lost now and very hungry.  My arm hurts a lot.I found some berries but they made me sick.  My arm smells funny.I have slimy black things on my legs, I try and pull them but they wont come off.  I can use the shell ring and cut them off.  I wonder where that nice man is now.  They taste horrible but didn’t make me sick.I cant move my arm, flies keep landing on it.  I am too tired to keep shooing them away.  They are my friends and sometimes talk to me.The flies gave me their babies.  I am their mommy too now.  I am going to sleep for a bit.</blockquote>

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