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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 6332273" data-attributes="member: 40413">Samad’s test proves his theory and he is then able to skip across the stepping stones, easily avoiding the illusionary ones.  As he leaps across the last he glances down and sees under the water an androgynous blue-green face surrounded by a cloud of kelp-like hair.  The fey creature, for that is what he is sure that it is, frowns at having its trick discovered and releases a stream of bubbles that sounds remarkably like someone blowing a raspberry.  With Samad across the river, the rest of the group is able to follow his lead and make it safely to the other side.There are no other indications of Polina’s passage near where Mazi found the strands of red thread but off the trail the underbrush is dense and it would show if someone had pushed their way through.  While traveling down the trail time seems to change, to stretch and make the morning seem interminable.  Finally, Mazi returns from her scouting down the trail and alights on a branch near Pirvinia.  The little bird twitters in excitement: she clearly has news.  ”Wood-women!  In a camp down the trail not far along.”  She hops along the branch and seems eager to fly back down the trail to these wood women.</blockquote>