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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crystorix" data-source="post: 1356349" data-attributes="member: 14011">After asking the others to keep an ear out for anybody with the last name of Zaynard, Rolf leads Valdir and Gadreman into the wild.  He's pleasantly surprised to find that Gadreman is eager to learn the ways of the woodsman.  He also listens patiently to Valdir and Gadreman's pointless debate about archery versus melee, since he uses both equally.  Valdir and Gadreman may be surprised that Rolf leaves Westwind without saddle or bridle, and never mounts him, just having the horse follow along and forage at its leisure.  He leads them away from settlements, as the idea is to hide the giant.  Those few times he needs some supplements to his supplies, he or Valdir take pelts and meat to some outlying settlements to trade.  Only one or the other goes, leaving Gadreman out of sight, so nobody has any recollection of a man, elf and giant, but merely of a man or of an elf.After four months, however, Gadreman gets restless in just the company of the two rangers and departs, while Valdir goes off with the Rangers.  Rolf goes south to find Nerina.  Rolf had not been looking forward to this reunion, for he had no idea how Nerina would react to news of the death of her daughter.  To his surprise, she was very calm about it, and was suprised he had taken so long to visit her about it.  She had been told by other sources already.  They had a pleasant conversation, but there was a distance between them that hadn't been there before.  Their relationship had been between a child and a faerie, then briefly betwen a teen and a woman, and he was no longer that child or even that teen.  Rolf knew that if he ever talked to her again, it would be as a druid, not a close friend.Rolf then went to his childhood community, where Rolf asked if anybody knew where the rest of his family had moved to.  The Zaynards had been hunters and rangers that had lived on the outskirts of the community, never really being part of it, but even so, Rolf was surprised to find that almost nobody knew what had become of his clan.  They hadn't even known they were leaving until they found the empty house.  The community's folk, in turn, were surprised Rolf didn't know, since he was the only one who remained, even if his dwelling in the area was sporadic.[[Of course, maybe I did learn something that would give me a lead to investigate.]]Rolf thanked those who helped keep squatters from his old family home, spent a little time repairing it to wintering conditions, but of course, couldn't winter there this year because he had to meet up with the others in the capital.[[Anybody remember that 1st edition rule that no more than 3 rangers could travel together?  Boy we're getting close.]]</blockquote>

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