Rhaka says, "I am very sorry for ..." and then realizes she is speaking in the common tongue. Dissappointed, she stands back up to a normal position and addresses her companions.
"It would appear that there is a mouse in the hole named ... you know, that was rude of me! I never asked the poor thing its name! Anyway, she is expecting. But there was another mouse in the hole named snow who had been recently killed. Poor thing. I didn't ask, but I assume it was her mate. The mouse tried to fight a thing or person called Shadow. Shadow took the hedge mage. I don't know if the mouse was using shadow as a name or description so I asked if the mouse could have bitten it. The mouse said, 'Big cloak. Thick. Hard to bite.' Apparently the dead mouse died at the hands of Shadow, and the hedge mage is gone. If that is true, then I have work to do here before we leave if you all think you can help. If the people around here are accustomed to the services of a beneficial mage, they'll need some time to learn to provide for themselves until the hedge mage returns - if that is even possible. They'll also need some help while they learn."
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