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CRIADS AND FOREST DWELLERS
They waited by the lake for midday to come around, with Lyanis entertaining them by pointing out all the animals that went there to drink.
There were foxes with tails of feathers, something that resembled a large tree trunk that slithered on the ground, two headed snakes, and a creature Thordric thought was a giant insect, but turned out to be a small mole-like animal with a disguise of various twigs and leaves on its back. They drank one after another, waiting patiently for the other to finish as though there were some unspoken law that only one species may go at a time.
As the morning passed and, by Hamlet’s mechanical watch (enhanced by Thordric some years ago so that it only needed to be wound every six months), it neared midday, they heard a loud rustl
