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Well, that was interesting.
Higgs! Wilt stopped in his tracks in the middle of the village street. Where have you been?
Here. I think. It was the strangest thing. I was asleep, yet more than that. Unable to wake, but there was no panic or danger in it. There was something almost … reassuring about it.
And the others?
We’re here, Wilt. Delco and Rawick as well. There was no danger. It was Nurtle’s doing. I think she wanted time for you to regain some of your humanity. We’d spent too long in the forest, too long in your other form.
Biore. I haven’t been able to hear any of you since we ran into that … thing in the forest.
It was a spirit of some kind. Deeply linked to the trees themselves. There have always been rumours of a Guardian haunting the Tangle. I never really believed the
