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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 6387182" data-attributes="member: 4441">Ullara, female human druid"It did indeed.  I do confess, I came here seeking an answer about rats and coming away with a pair of apprentices was not what I expected to happen this morning...  But fate moves in very strange ways, and I don't think I can ignore her call.  No one can, not for long."  Ullara takes a deep breath herself and runs her hand through her hair.  Of all the things... but it will be for the best, I think.  "Frau Wollinger, I learned at my mother's side, reading from the book that had been handed down in my family of all things that grew in the woods.  I studied the books to learn what to look for, but then my mother showed me survival as well as knowledge.  The Witchwood can be... a difficult place, but I grew up happy with her."  Ullara knows her Book of Halx is back at the house, as she certainly hadn't stopped to grab it during the chaos this morning.  She only hopes rats haven't made off with it in the interim.  "There is a complication, though.  I am doing a favor for the Baron, investigating the roads Between and some trouble therein, and that is part of what brought me seeking answers about rats, in a roundabout way.  There is danger in what I'm doing, and I would not want to bring the children into this unaware.  But until this danger is over, I can teach them here.  I have the book I was taught from, the one passed down in my family, and it's quite the weighty tome by now.  But!" she raised a finger, knowing that weighty tomes and young children are not always the best of friends.  Certainly the book had seemed intimidating to her as a child.  "It's also full of pictures and stories of how the plants are best used, and what nature creatures you might see.  I thought of it as a book of tales, albeit one where I could learn to be the heroine of the story someday.  I want to bring the book here so the children can read it, and so that I can try to resolve this danger as well and soon as I'm able."But for now, let us tell the children the news?" Ullara says, her smile a little tremulous.</blockquote>

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