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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 1965436" data-attributes="member: 18280">They missed Rogger's last cat-call -- whatever it had been.  That was probably a good thing.  Riding past farmhousese, they reached the areas orcs had sacked last autumn.  Many were burned out shells, some still stood.  Some would one day be rebuilt, or at least re-occupied.  What he had took for Selby-by-the-Water, Glom realized, was not even the largest part of a smaller human settlement.  Surely these people were greater builders than he had thought.  He felt surprisingly relaxed on the horse, a huge animal by his standards.  Fellan was an excellent rider.Beyond the last of the farms, two great trees leaned together, as if to create an arch into the greater Weirwood.  It felt rather like passing from one world into another, and Horsom could well believe stories about travellers who had accidently crossed into Faerieland in such places.   Still, there were signs that humans had been here.  Even this far into the Weirwood, there were a few trees marked with the arrowhead of Baron Archer; these tall, straight trees were reserved for the Baron's shipwrights.  Many would become masts at some future date.  Others might be forgotten, but to cut them was poaching of the highest order, and carried dire penalties."Now the real fun may begin," said Fellan, "if we are not careful, or if we are unlucky.  It is spring.  Many creatures that have slept, or have gone far in the winter, are sniffing about, looking for a quick meal to replace fat lost over the winter.  Keep your eyes open!"Although moving quickly, they could easily see signs of new life.  Green shoots poked up from amid the carpet of leaves, and moss greened stones thrust up from the earth.  Squirrels and chipmunks rooted through the undergrowth, looking for nuts and bulbs that had not yet sprouted, or were easily dug up.  Once, Fellan stopped to examine some torn bark, which he said was done by a bear sharpening its claws.  The group could see the earliest flowers of the year, and buds on some of the trees.  Within two weeks, the whole world would be green again.They reached the bridge over the Alder Stream by nightfall without mishap.</blockquote>

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