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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 373333" data-attributes="member: 114">Gathering together in the woods, and keeping an eye out for potential pursuers, the company are not surprised when there is a rustling of new leaves and a couple of figures step into view. They are as tall as men, lithe and graceful. Both carry bows, but arrows are not nocked. The female, with long reddish hair speaks.“Men, you have done us a service beyond measure. Our Lady wishes to thank you herself”.Then a golden aura is visible between the trees, and a woman clothed in white and glowing with unearthly beauty and presence gracefully steps into view. As she surveys them they see tears on her cheeks, and such is the personal magnetism radiating from her that each of them feels a similar pang in their own heart.“Elves” gasps K’tan. “Nobody has seen Elves in hundreds of years!”“It is true” says the Lady, with gentle regret in her voice. “We have not walked amongst men since the fall of Radeem. Our paths have taken us to different routes, different roots… We still seek the way home, even after these many long years. Do you know the way home?”Trajan glances across at K’tan, slightly puzzled. “No, my Lady” he replies.She continues, in a dreamy voice “If you should find the way home, be sure to come and find us. We have a deep, deep longing inside us…” her voice fades away, then returns strongly.“Our gratitude is yours for removing this evil from the land, and laying the ghost of Caleddin, my Love to rest - if any deserved peace, he did. Please take my people and show them where you buried his body. I will look to your fallen comrade, the child who lies burned and scarred amongst you. Go now, and return in the morning.”Somewhat hesitant, Trajan, Arilyn and K’tan back away from the Elven lady, and set off with the two “normal” elves (if any elves could be considered “normal”!). They lead them to the red horse hill, and show them the site where they had buried the ghostly horseman’s body. Surprisingly the low mound of earth is now covered in brilliant flowers amongst verdant grass. One in particular catches Trajan’s eye - a flower with seven sparkling petals. He motions to one of the Elves and asks “what is this flower? I don’t recognise it”.“Ah,” replies the Elf. “That is the ‘Star of Remembrance’. A flower from our home, many, many years ago. It is said that they bloom whenever an Elf Lord falls, and Caleddin our Lord was great amongst us.”“May I take one, as a remembrance?” asks Trajan. “Certainly” replies the Elf, so Trajan carefully plucks one of the flowers and stores it away.The next morning they are led back to a clearing near the village. The Lady has departed, but sitting around a fire with three other beautiful elves is Anne-Marie. The burns from the fireball are mostly gone, although her hair is considerably shorter now, and will take many weeks to grow back to its old length. She seems in good spirits, although her memory of the last few days are very hazy and patchy.The company rejoice that she is alive again, and thank the elves. A bargain is struck - the company will repopulate the village with the people whom they rescued from the fiends tower, and the elves will protect them from woodland dangers for the next year and secretly help them to become established.Dala and Lysander meet them at the edge of the village. The force cage which had been holding them dissolved during the night and they had been cautiously examining the carnage around the village. The good news is that there has been no sign of Dyson or Tully since the fight. The bad news is that shortly after imprisoning them, Dyson had boasted that he was already sending out pairs of villagers to start infiltrating human settlements in neighbouring kingdoms, and his plans would still succeed…Trajan and the others travel back down to the edge of the woods and meet Sean the Borderlander and the villagers which he has been keeping an eye on. The villagers are informed of the situation and travel up to Ossington. Everyone helps in the clear-up job. Trajan finds a stonemason amongst the villagers, and takes him round to the standing stones. Pointing at the evil runes which had contributed to Dyson’s plans, he takes out the “Star of Remembrance”.“I want you to obliterate the runes, and carve an image of this flower on each of the stones. Can you do that?”The burly mason nods, and starts to work straightaway at his task.Sean is keen to start tracking down escaped fiendish villagers, but before he goes Trajan and Anne-Marie ask him to help them with a local task. They’ve got to clear out that wizards tower first.</blockquote>

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