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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7190757" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE HIDDEN: BEYOND NEW WATER01 WORK COMMUTESEGMENT 105“PASSAGE  INTO ELDEEN”7/18/17THERENDOR 12, 1000 PASSAGE, AUNDAIRThree large carriages with mage bred large horses line up at the Orien road station.   Knowing it is first come, first serve, a small crowd is waiting at daybreak.Tyson passes the time doing what he always does.   He suspects not all of these people are young adventurous types.  One has the eyes of a cold-blooded killer.  He has been separated from Dru (Druugos) while boarding.  The evil eyed passenger sits with him.  Oh joy.Then two others step up into the car.  A loud and obnoxious  changeling and an armored man wearing military armor from Karrnath.   No…. change that.  A skeleton.   Hurrrmmmmm.It will take over 45 days to reach the work station.  More than once Tyson wonders about this decision.  At heart, he is a city boy….. just smarter.   Sleeping in a tent will be new to him.  Food cooked over a fire will possibly bring back some childhood memories.  As much as possible he reviews his notes given to him by his patron complete with notes from his information gathering on them.  He also bought a book about survival in Eldeen.   Even chipmunks can be dangerous there.   Huuurrrm.Some of his people he is looking for have questionable ties to the Emerald Claw.  Gussa included.  He wonders briefly if dear dad knows his darling daughter is possibly a part of this terrorist cult group?  “What cha’ reading?” asks the changeling readjusting his head piece once more.  He leans far too close to the inquisitive.“Notes that do not concern you., Shape Changer.”Ziggy sits back a bit miffed by the racial term used.  “I can change but I don’t.”  He looks out and watches Galifar Lake in the distance.Intrigued, “Oh, and why is that?”  Tyson asks while closing up the files and stuffing them back into his hip bag.“Stereo typing I guess.   I am more than just a Shape Changer.  I am a Chef first and foremost.”“Hah!” spits out the fourth passenger with them.  Hue Tacksonmon obviously thinks little of the “cook”.Tyson sees where this is going and like Feldrix, he sits back to observe.Druugos ignores the two young men and the woman whom take turns trying bolster their might with stories of the war when they were but children.  Druugos found the war to be a dark and dangerous thing.   Perhaps that was part of why the bottle was his hiding place for those years.Looking out the frosted windows, he sees signs of war, old and new.   Burnt out stone buildings, craters in the growing fields and areas of cemeteries marked with stones, sticks and wooden boards.  So many died here.  There is also newer sites from the events of last year.  Armies from Thrane and Aundair had a conflict near here with dragons on each side. (Storm Dragon trilogy)   Followed by a savage storm that people are still trying to recover from.  Especially the area of Varna which was nearly wiped off the surface of the map.   Most recently, fiends leading savage barbarians through the thick forests reached sections of eastern Eldeen.  999 was a very hard year on the forest nation.Travel is slow and boring.  Winter is trying desperately to remain.  By day, the snow melts creating soft permafrost mud that is greasy and ruddy filled on the dirt roads.  At night, it snows again.  The new snow replenishes what was lost the day before.Food was questionable.  Then, someone heard Ziggy was a cook, dared him to improve the rations given to them by House Orien.   From that forward he prepares at least one meal a day.  Even Hue doesn’t give him much grief after the meals begin.  It is good to be the cook.On Thrender 28th, 1000….. there is a brief scare at night.  The smell of gently cooking from meat draws in a pack of wolves.  Feldrix scares them away easily enough.On Eyre 4, 1000 the magebred horse drawn carriages reach the southern parts of the Eldeen Reaches where an existing road lies.  It will lead them to Greenheart eventually.  The worst of the fiendish combat took place near here as the barbarians and fiends attacked various shrines and places of worship important to the druids.  Tyson recalls reading about it in the Sharn Inquisitive.  Some felt there was a method to the madness but no one is sure.   Either way, huge trees, centuries old, are seen torn down with arcane might and clawed huge paws of creatures not natural.   Brutal battles that followed the barbarians effective use of fires to push away animals and treants.  (again, Storm Dragon novel series-  a good read)Eyre 5, 1000    The Orien carriages travel through a marshy area.  Terrible fires have gutted much of the area but with the druid’s help, new trees and brush have been planted.  While going through the marsh just before stopping to set up a secure campsite, the Master Inquisitive thought he had seen something watching them from the woods.  (He did)  He misses his small apartment in Sharn now with its cozy fireplace.</blockquote>

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