From the Adventure Journal of Heartscry

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The Iceclaw Moot

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Outsideworld goes on foreverandeverandever! Somany smells, colors, stars! Is muchmany beautifuls for sing about. RAIN is fall from sky, make happy Rir'Sha happy T'skrang! Rain is pretty but wetwings is not happyful. Heartscry is try sing for happyrain, but not understand. Must for talk to Rir'Sha, other T'skrang, understand happywet betterful, then can sing good rainsong.

Heartscry and Varis and Moore and Rir'Sha is go for find old Iceclawmoot where trolls is not and make safe for trolls to be. Rir'Sha is know the way even when no stars for day. How do? Is mysterygood!

Moore is let Heartscry ride on shoulder. Moore and Varis and Rir'Sha climb up and down and up and down and upanddown andupanddown mountains because no wings. Wings is a great goodness.

We is meet bigbig beautiful brindled bear who is not want visitorfriends. He knocks Moore down, Rir'Sha is goodcalm and not shoot arrowful so Heartscry can make littlewhile friends. Bearfur is thick and rough and smells of bear. Heartscry know what smellsofbear smells like now!

We is find Bloodbee Valley, where is notright bloodbees. They is same big for Heartscry, and is sting and bloodsuck. Rir'Sha say is not like salt and throw salt at first who stingsuck him, but then they is mad for Rir'Sha and stingstingstingsuck until Rir'Sha has not enough blood for stay awake. Heartscry is make Moore monsterfierce, but bloodbees is not want to stingsuck Moore, only Rir'Sha and Heartscry and littlebit Varis. Is many. Heartscry is not count. Moore is say, turn back! Moore is keepsafe protector, not like for friends be hurtbad. Bloodshare for take hurts, all for Moore. Is goodgood friend.

Varis is treat wounds, feed magic goodfood, weave shelterhuts for sleep in, make all betterful. Varis and Heartscry iswillbe best friends soonnow and Varis will teach Heartscry Elementalist hotfood spell and air armor spell for helping!
Bloodbees is watch while we is sleeping. Not attack, just watch, spy, see, tell Beequeen. Notgood. Toosmart from horrortaint. We is find Iceclaw but is ruins. Not safe for live in, but trolls iswill rebuild. Muchmany bodies for termites and wolves, all deadness and more termites in cave. Bloodbees too. We is say, not safe for trolls while horrortaintbugs is here, make deadful! Bloodbees and termites is say, Rir'Sha is tasty, eat Rir'Sha all up. Termites like T'skrang taste bestness?

Termites is spit orangegoo for burnburnpain, cannot think for pain. Notgood. More and more, something is birthgive. Have to find maggotqueen, not can fight way to her.

We is run away for thinkplan and heal. Bugs is followfollowfollow, HOURS follow! We kill bloodbee spy so queen is not know sleepplace, Moore is bloodshare hurts and Varis is healhelp. Goodgood friends. Heartscry is not can helping, but sings for happythoughts.

We is think, maggotqueen is make more termites, not more bloodbees. Termites is not can reach flying. Heartscry can fly over, find maggotqueen! Roll in salt for bloodbees not attack, Moore and Varis and Rir'Sha is monsters at cavemouth when termites attack, Heartscry is flyscout cave. No maggotqueen, no maggotqueen, maggotqueen!

Maggotqueen is protected, termitebabies is spray paingoo on Heartscry. Hurtshurtsbad. Is hard for not scream. Is hard for think happythoughts. Muchmany pain. Maggotqueen is spray stickyweb, Heartscry cannot fly, cannot move. If friends is not come, Heartscry die here for hunger before wriggle free of stickyweb. Littlebit scared, but know friends will come.

Heartscry is send pain for maggotqueen. Is much pain for send, termitebabies give, orangegoo and eatflesh, but is hard for clearthink. Sometimes push painthought for othertrue, sometimes painthought only for Heartscry, trap inside Heartscry like Heartscry is trap in stickyweb.

Moore and Varis and Rir'Sha is come! Rir'Sha is cut Heartscry free for web, manythanks, Moore and Varis is kill termitebabies. Heartscry is send pain for maggotqueen, maggotqueen is say, 'is Heartscry hurtpain, not maggotqueen hurtpain!', so Heartscry make for be maggotqueen hurtpain and maggotqueen is die, termitebabies is die. Safenow. Trolls can come for Iceclaw home.

Heartscry is not sorry for kill maggotqueen and horrortaintbugs. Is very happyful we is not hurt bear. Is worryful for Bloodbeequeen make more bloodbees, spy on trolls, bloodsuck. Must for goback, makesafe. Rest first.

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Secure the Serpent Road

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Heartscry and Varis and new friends August and Silverthunder and Alari is go for Serpentroad where scary teeththing is eat roadstone. August is Dwarf cavalryman and Silverthunder is ponyfriend and Alari is prettiest T'skrang Swordmaster with prettyful hat. Best hat! Alari is not want for carry Heartscry in case Heartscry is knock off hat, but Heartscry is ride Silverthunder with August. Silverthunder is more softfuzz than bearfur. Smell is different. Beautifullest eyes!

We is find stoneblock in road, all clawmark. Gnasherhorror jumps over stoneblock, ballshape made from all spine, teeth, hunger. Little bit legs, too. Try for eat Varis, but Varis is bendtwistjump out of way! Alari is say, 'my grandmother has scarier bite!' Gnasher is bite Alari muchmany hard. More hard than grandmother. More scary.

August and Silverthunder is charge, drive lance through Gnashermouth and out otherside. It is not fall down so we is not know is dead right away! Is some laughing. We is stickroll Gnasher off road and burn. Varis is helpheal Alari. Heartscry is notice biteything try for eat T'skrang again. Think T'skrang is best taste for Name-givers.

We is findfollow dragmarks for othergnasher, past ruined caravan into hills. Orkguards is say, 'Ho there! We is protect Serpentroad, kill othergnasher. Must be to pay us forty silver for kingtax.' Heartscry is not know why we is gived bounty for kill gnasher and orkguards is collect silvertax. Ask, 'How you is know when person is already pay?' They say, 'Sometimes must pay again.' Heartscry is not think is fair.

Orks is not kingguards, is lie for make us pay silvertax, but they is kill gnasherhorror. They is protect Serpentroad, even though they is hungrypoor. Not even has goodneat armorforms for show workforking lie! Heartscry thinks hungrypoor orks should workforking, get bounty for gnasherkill, pay for roadprotect, but is for Throalking to pay. Not fair for make travelers pay.

Archertroll is boss of lying orkguards, say, 'Enough!', is arrowtobow. Varis is quick, quicker, quickest, earthdarts! Is much fighting. August and Silverthunder not can charge, path is too bendysteep. August is get Silverthunder up trail for attack Archertroll, but Silverthunder is panic, August falls. Orkguards bashhit August and Silverthunder with flails.

Alari is make flirt with one orkguard, other orkguards is cross, attack Alari most. Heartscry is show orkguards Alari's monster and Alari is like fighting dancer, muchmany graceful. Some orks is run away, but one hits Alari on mouth with flail, breakjaw, bloodspray on rocks, Alari liestill on ground. Alari's flirtfriend stay for make sure Alari not dead - Alari not dead! Is hurtbad, but alive! Is happyful! Otherork is try for steal Alari beltpouch and run away. Heartscry is say, 'No robbing!' and painchase until he is drop it. Heartscry is not see what is happen uptrail with August and Silverthunder, but orkguards and archertroll is runaway too.

Varis is set Alari's brokenjaw, and we is make Alari drink boosterpotions, eat goodfood. Is hard for Alari to drink, eat, talk. Prettyclothes is bloody, torn. Hat is bloody, smooshed. Alari is has badbad day, still muchmany brave and heartful. Heartscry is happyglad Alari is alive!

Nighttime, Heartscry and August is see glow on mountain, like campfire. Morningtime, we go for see whatis glow. Heartscry thinks will be banditcamp, wefriends will stop orkguards and archertroll from silvertax robbing travelers. But is not! In cave is bigbig horrorman, metalbones and nomouth and fire inside, goodsmell like roastmeat. Goodsmell is not so goodful when is come from horror.

Horrorman mindspeak, say, 'Manythanks for bring such lovely fire'. Touch Alari, make Alari goodsmell like roastmeat. Is fire on Alari's back, under armor. Varis is gived August and Alari fireblades, but horrorman likes fire. Varis say, 'Come to Varis, will protect!' and magicwraps us safe from fireburns. Heartscry is show horrorman Alari and August monsters, but horrorman is not even seem to understand they is try to hurt him until Alari hits hardhardhard and then only littlehurt. Is same for Heartscry - send pain againagain to horrorman, horrorman is notcare until Heartscry gives muchmany hurtpain and then only littlehurt.

Varis is thinkingthinking, look at forge, anvil, sword, tools. Say to Heartscry, 'Look for astral?' and Heartscry is see threads for all tools. Horrorman is thickdense pattern, much power.

Horrorman is too hard for hurt, gives much hurtburnpain even through Varis wrapspell. We is say, 'Run now. Tell Throalpeople horror is near.' We is all hurtbad. August is stillsleep, but notdead. Varis is steal sword Horrorman is made, Alari is drag August to Silverthunder outside, Heartscry is say, 'Sorryful for bother you, horrorman, we go now. No more fight, you win!' Horrorman make Heartscry promise we will come back othertime.

Horrorman say he is want for make friends, but Heartscry is not want for be friends with horrorman. In cave there is dead orkguard with legbones gone. Heartscry is not think horrorman is nice to his friends. Is sad for horrorman to be lonely, but trees is not can be friends with fire.

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Rescue the Baurschwine Farmsteaders

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Heartscry and Varis and Alari and August and Silverhammer is go for helping Baurschwine dwarffamers because Murkabaurschine is say, 'Help, verminpests is killed Poppy dead!'.

We is go southroad, no banditguards like Serpentroad but tree is fallen, block path. Murka is say, 'Wagons not can do treeroad,' so we is move treefall, but treefall is full of termites! Near to road is bigbig termitekaer, like Throal for termites. We is not want for angrymake - too many for fighting! Heartscry is trustspell, say, 'Hello treefall termites, we is littlewhile friends!', Varis is give rope to Alari for tie on tree, August is mightydwarf and pull offroad. Termites is not happyful, more come outfromin, say, 'friends is not make friends move house!'. Heartscry is distractsing and we is hurryful past.

Murkabaurschwine is show us to Baurschwinefarm, where is farmhouse with q'wirls ontop and Baurschwinedwarves trap inside. Heartscry is say, 'Hello hello, Baurschwinedwarves!' and Baurschwinedwarves is say, 'Muchmany thirsty, please give water!' We is try for send waterskin down chimney for drinking, but is stuck. Not can reach with August pokeyspear. Q'wirls is not like Heartscry be so close for house, Heartscry is fly away.

Plantcrops is inside stonewalls for keep q'wirl out, but otherthing is get in! Bigbig thing with shaggyfur and boneplates and longclaws, muchmany beautifuls, August is say name Gost. Gost is not kill Poppy, but is eat Poppy bones, omnom. Not want for fighting - August say, 'Go away Gost' and it is climb wall for goaway. Heartscry is want for make friends with Gost, but now is time for help Baurschwinedwarves, not for make Gostfriend.

There is muchmany talk for how we is fight q'wirls. Q'wirls is groundswim, come up for drillbite, dive down for safe. Hard for see whereis! Where is best for nofly people? Much talk. Many talk. Talk long time.

Heartscry is go away from nofly people, jump on ground, make dwarfsounds for q'wirl to find. Nofly people is stand on stone where q'wirl is not can groundswim. August and Silverhammer is come out for attacking when q'wirls is come up, q'wirls is eat Heartscry armor and August armor and little bit August. Alari is stay on stone, pound earth for q'wirl to hearfeel, come eat, Alari is goodgoodsmart, only two q'wirls can reach for tasty T'skrang sametime.

Heartscry is asked Alari why T'skrang is best taste Name-giver, Alari say, 'Is only best taste for evilbad thing. T'skrang do for lure evilbad.' T'skrang is bravesmart!

Q'wirls is stop coming, we is think we maybe beated them with earthdarts and sworddance and mightydwarf and painsend. August and Silverhammer is test, ride around farmhouse. Farfar side, is more q'wirl! Anklebite Silverhammer! We is all go together, kill q'wirl when they is try for eat tasty T'skrangflesh. Is safe now? Is safe.

Baurshwinedwarves is muchmany thirst but not sickhurt. Pigs and goats is hungry, chickens is some dead. Heartscry is glad we is not wait more days for come helping!

Baurschwinedwarves is say, 'Manythanks! Has earthcoin for helping! Stay, feast! Mourn for Poppy.' Varis is make goodfood, we is eat with Baurschwinedwarves. They is build woodpyre for burn Poppy, Heartscry is sing sadness for grandfather-gone - and Poppy is GET UP from fire! Is not alive. Easy for tell, head is loose and can see insideparts. Silverhammer is muchmany scared, not want for go near! Alari is closest, has hands full for feastfood but mightystab Deadpoppything with tailblade. Inside is white worm where spine should be, Varis say is relan. Not horror, just worm what like for live in deadthing. August is push Poppyrelan back into fire for burning.

Heartscry is sad Baurschwinedwarves is not get for burn Poppy peacely. Last time they is see honored grandfather is look like hungrydead horrorthing attack? Not best memory. Heartscry is feel we could maybe doed more.

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Troajin Hunt

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Heartscry and August and Silverhammer and Rir'Sha and newfriend obsidiman Ibon is go for find troajin because August is want troajinfriend for ride. Silverhammer is feared for be near fighting, troajinfriend will like fighting.

This is first time Heartscry is goed out without Varis. Is strange for not have Varis. No shelterhuts! No goodfood! No rumbly Varisvoice! Heartscry is miss Varis manymuchful.

Rir'Sha is Scout, August need Rir'Sha for find troajin. Ibon is Warrior, August need Ibon for fight fiercething in mountains maybe. Now all is overful, Heartscry is know August is not need Heartscry. Heartscry is think hard, but truefulness is story tell same way if Heartscry is there notthere.

But Heartscry is learn manything! Is glad for goed!

Firstday we is not find troajin, we is find bigbig spider! But we is not know is spider, because spider is in burrow. Heartscry is make Ibon be otherwhere so Ibon can looksee safe, but spider is groundsense footsteps, jump out for hole, bite Ibon hard in leg for poison! Ibon is cut spider in half with trollaxe, spider is hide in burrow for Obsidiman to go away. August is think maybe spider has tunnel, other outplace. Jumpsurprise us again? Rir'Sha is light torch for burn webs in hole, Heartscry is check for make sure hole in is only out. Is. Spider is not like fire, not want fight, please to be go away? We is go away.

Ibon is muchmany sick for poison, not can move good for littlewhile. Rir'Sha is know how for use Heartscry physician kit, help make Ibon better. Is goodgood Rir'Sha is can helping, but Heartscry is still miss Varis.

Nextday we is see wolves! They is go otherway, we is not get closeful. Someday Heartscry is know how wolffur is to bearfur. Goatfur is muchlike ponyfur!

We is walk many days. August is know where troajin is be seed, Rir'Sha is know how for find valley. Rir'Sha is looklooklook for Traojin trackprint, find oldmoon sign. Heartscry is not can see trackprint even when Rir'Sha is pointshow. Rir'Sha is has bestest eyes! All days we is walk, track, hunt some. Rir'Sha is find waterpool when we is drink all brung water, we is drink and drink and Heartscry is take bath. Is manymany day to next bathclean. We is runned out for water and Rir'Sha is find pitcherplant for drinking, but not can wash in. Heartscry is sticky.

August has wagon with cage, cagegoats! Heartscry is like cagegoats. Cagegoats is name Eggtime and Runnel. Runnel is has trollhorns! Goats has beautifullest eyes and dancerhooves and wispybeard and is eat grass like Silverhammer (Heartscry not can eat grass) and stew with pigmeat and shoe from Heartscry. Goats can be to eat ALL things, but teeth is not look special. Heartscry is check in astral for suring.

We is walk, track one week when Rir'Sha is teach Heartscry what is good for Name-giver food and what is good for goatfood. Then Heartscry is help Rir'Sha hunting! Helping is a great goodness! Mostly, Heartscry is just sing for happymake.

Will not tell all days for walking. Some days is rain, we has to make shelter (Heartscry is not make good shelterknots. Shoeknots is wrong kind for shelter?), make troajintracks hard for Rir'Sha to see. Some days is not rain, we has to find water. All days we look for food. August is cranky, say, 'Eat rations, find traojin fasterful!' Rir'Sha is say, 'We is foodhunt sametime for track. Is not fasterful for eat rations, only tastyless.'

FINALLY Rir'Sha is find fresh tracks! Heartscry can for see trackprints! Is rain all day, waterpools in pawshapes. August is want for take halfgoat for gift troajin, but goats is friends now! Has names! Troajin is hunted ownfood, though - is dead trollhorse, dead troajin, some hurted troajin. They is eat trollhorse, not need goatfood yet.

August is go close for make friends Cavalryman way. We is not to be close - watch from ridge. August is sit near bush, all calmful, troajin is watchwary but not pounce. Heartscry is worryish, keep reweave thread for rescuehelp. One troajin is pounce, knock August down, try for open August insides to outside! Heartscry is ready, rush in for make August and Heartscry be otherplace, but August is Cavalryfriend pouncer. Not need helping!

August say is have to make longtime friend for troajin before is safe for take home. Rir'Sha and Ibon and Heartscry is play games and sing and find food and water and make treehouse! August is get sick from sleep in rain, wound is infected. Rir'Sha is use rest of Heartscry physician kit for help August feel bettering, and August is make longtime friends for troajin and tell troajin, 'Not to be eat foodmeat what is tied up for pulling wagon! Get in cagething, eat goatmeat!'

Eggtime and Runnel is fearscream and painscream. Then they is not scream anymore. Heartscry is not have songs for fill quiet.

August is happyful for newfriend troajin. Heartscry is happyful for newfriend Ibon, and littlebit want for cuddle soft troajinkit, but they is has sharpsharp claws and Heartscry is not want riptear wings. Is seed what goatsize troajin is do for Eggtime and Runnel. Not want for see what windlingsize troajin is do for Heartscry.

Heartscry is not spell Trust for littlewhile friend. Is not feel rightful for cuddle killer of namefriends.

Is glad for goed. Is. But not was helpful, and now is dirty, heartsick. Heartscry is miss Varis and Alari. Varis would sit with Heartscry until silence is not full for echoscreams. Alari would make Heartscry laugh.

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Secure the Alidar Valley Road

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Heartscry and August and Silverhammer and troajinfriend Shadow and Ibon and newfriend Ceadda is go for Alidarvalleyroad where dwarves laying roadstone is beed attacked. We is all sharpeye spell, see mat woven for grass, reed, mud. Is trap! August is ride Shadow, jump over, but trap is block path. Ibon and Ceadda and Silverhammer is not for jumping. Ceadda is lift mat with spear for look under, but matmove is pull bigbig rock for roll on us! August and Shadow is jump out of path, but rock is bash Ceadda and Silverhammer.

We is know trap mean trapsetter, be careful. Trapsetter is naked troll, all muddy. Not look happyful. Heartscry is think should reweave for make littlewhile friend. Maybe can talk, ask why trapset! But mudtroll is see us, throw rocks for Heartscry and Ibon, hit Ibon! Heartscry is say, 'That is not friending!', August and Shadow and Ibon and Ceadda is all rush up path for fighting. Heartscry is cross for mudtroll hurt friends twotime now.

Heartscry is sadsorry and guiltsorry is choose badfeel. Silverhammer is deadness because Heartscry is choose badfeel, not friending.

This is story where Silverhammer dies. We is hurry up path for where warriors can be for fight back. Mudtroll is hit Ceadda muchmany hard with cavespike, knock down, almost headsplit! Mudtroll is hard for fighters to be hitting, and Heartscry is not can show monsters because mudtroll is hit so hard! Must keep friends otherwhere, so mudtroll is kill friend-thought, not kill friend. When Mudtroll is try for hit Ibon but only hit Ibon-thought, is muchmany angryful. August is told Silverhammer, 'follow', now Silverhammer is nearest for angry trollsmash. Mudtroll is crush Silverhammer head, make dead.

Ibon is keep mudtroll sameplace and focus on Ibon and Heartscry is keep Ibon otherwhere. August and Shadow is keep moving, not always hit mudtroll but not stay where mudtroll can hit back. Ibon is hurtbad, say, 'Must retreat! Not can stay fighting!' but August is charge, spear mudtroll dead!

Mudtroll is lived in cavelair, smell muchmany badness. We is not want for sleep in cave, find betterplace under stars. Stars is beautiful. Heartscry is not has words for starbeauty.

Heartscry and Ceadda is already sleeped, now watchguard when ghouls attacks. They is looksmell dead, wrongwrongwrong. Heartscry is shout for August and Shadow and Ibon to wake up, show monster in Ceadda for ghouls. Ceadda monster is bigbig crab, hardshell with sharpstrong pincerclaw! Ceadda is block path, otherghoul is have for climb cliff to be reaching us. August and Ibon is wake up, get weapons. Heartscry is show monster inside - Ibon is cavetroll! - but Shadow is not want for fight ghouls, try for run away. August is say, 'Not to run! Pounce!' Ceadda is stab ghoul, Shadow is pounce to deadness. Ibon is trollsmash otherghoul. Ghouls is dead, but Ceadda is hurtbad! Clawhurt is deep, but blood is black, crust and ooze. Is poison? Ceadda is know Warrior healing secret for burn out poison!

August is go back for more sleep, was not done, but brush Shadow teeth first so is not has ghoulbits and ghoulsmell. Ceadda and Heartscry is find pear tree, we has juicypear breakfast!

Dream of road is pass big cave, some footprints outside. We is think cave is where ghouls come from, look inside. Is smellbad, but much beauty! Greenglow crystals is grow like cavebush, and someone is write on walls but we is not know words for writing. Is fire with Name-giver roast over - maybe human, maybe ork? Is cook blackburn, not can tell. Not know name.

We is tiptoe, look for otherghouls. Is ledge, too high for see good, so Heartscry is fly up for looking. Should not be fly so close! Big ghoul - trollsize ghoul, all spiky with boneneedles - is hided behind rock, jump out for attack Heartscry! Not move fastful, bigghoul is scratch Heartscry on neck. Is not deephurt, but is poison. Heartscry is can see black under skin, over shoulder, under armor. August and Shadow is leap up on ledge for fight bigghoul, but Heartscry is not seed more.

Friends is tell Heartscry Ibon is save Heartscry life - make Heartscry drink potion for help fight poison while August is fight bigghoul and Ceadda is fight otherghoul. Heartscry is wake up when August is bloodshare, take hurt from Heartscry. Is still hurtbad, but veins is not feel like icehot needles!

Lastghoul is still fight Ibon and Ceadda, very fierce. Is bend, twist, leap, only littlebit hurt for each hit. Jump on Ceadda shield for claw him over top, but August is charge and knock down with spear, fall ontop. Ibon is crush head!
Heartscry is look for astral, find bonecharm in bigghoul, potion and bandage for treat poison. Astral is corrupt, muchmany wrongness. Otherside of cave is open to Alidar River Valley, where is manymany ghouls work in sunlight, build zigzag pyramid. Moremany. Many like anthill with ants. Is badbadbad, we is hurry back for tell Throal. Must for talk to Nethermancer.

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Secure Booten Canyon

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Heartscry and Varis and Alari and Ibon is go for Bootencanyon where is stories for big apes hunt miners. Is goodgood for visit Serpentroaders again! Many hugs and stories and applesmoke venison for share. Heartscry is happy for see friends. Nextday we is find first redape near cave. Is deadness, bloatswell, burst open. Is thing eat redape - yellow worm, batwings, stingtail, pits where eyes is not. Varis is say 'krillworm'.

Ibon is go for look in cave, but krillworm is not like for closeness. Krillworm is call krillfriends, bring muchmany out from cave, trees. Heartscry is not can make krillworms see us otherwhere - krillworms is not has eyes! Is not know how they is see, not can dreamweave for. Ibon is kill krillworm easyful, cut in half, but whole swarm is chittershriek. Varis is keepsafe us with shieldspell, armorspell, Heartscry is show monsters, but is so many krillworms! One, two, three, four is not can hurt, but five is land on back of neck or crawl through legs, and is fives enough for Ibon and Alari and Varis all! Alari is badhurt, big bite from tastyneck. We is make some deadness, others is say, 'No more fighting!', fly away.

Cave is shallow, only good for krillworms. Varis is give Alari goodfood, help treat neckbite. Heartscry is to be learn good-notgood eating from Rir'Sha, look for food, find meat-tree! Is smokymeat grow right on tree, like fruit! Heartscry is much excite. Is think maybe nut-tree? Nuts is has meat.

Very tasty.

Nextday we is see othercave, rockpile for block cavemouth. Heartscry is go look, is see rockgaps is has meat between! But is not rockpile, is CAVE BURROWER! Rockpile unfolds, is like nightmare obsidiman, notgood notgood. Grab for Heartscry! Heartscry is slip away, but is feel like something is broken inside. Heartscry is make littlewhile friend for give us time, but people is say, 'Cave burrower is like for eat obsidimen. Is not safe for Ibon to be fighting. Gogogo for Bootencanyon.' Not feel goodful about leave there.

We is find Name-giver group, hunter-trappers! Is two orks, Hedder and Ratbonegrinder; two dwarfs, Querro and Kotch; three humans, Vella, Martine and Tobin. Tobin is angryful, shout at friends. Group is run from apes - bigbig grey ape with one yellow eye, boss for redapes. (Varis is know: is baggi, horror from Bloodwood with no bones inside.) Dresk is fall down, Cadala is stop for help. Baggi is not kill Cadala, is TAKE Cadala. Laugh! Laughing is a great goodness, but is not nice laugh. Tobin loves Cadala, is want group for go help her. Group is say no, not, too much danger. Heartscry is say, 'We is Adepts! Come for helping! We is go find Cadala, bring safehome to Tobin!'

Bootencanyon is-willbe muchmany prettyful without bloatswell redape bodies. Is four redapes still alive. Hungry, hungry, eat until is split open from inside. Otherside canyon is baggi on canyon wall! Holds Cadala by ankles, make her scream, fearful for fall, fearful for be apefood. Heartscry is think, 'Maybe baggi is not let us get close for fighting. Redapes is deadful, baggi is-will take Cadala, runaway.' Heartscry is think, 'Maybe baggi is choose for fighting us, help redapes. Drop Cadala, Cadala is fallfallfall, splat.' Heartscry is think, 'Most important is for Cadala to be livesafe.'
Heartscry is show monsters in Ibon and Alari and Varis to redapes, then fly fastfastfast for Cadala. Is not want for get so close for baggi to care, but if Heartscry can be for make littlewhile friends for baggi, baggi is not hurt Heartscry or friends. Make baggi know Cadala is friend - we is here for help Cadala! - baggi will not hurt Cadala. Is plan. Must work. Must work!

Heartscry is stay far, weave for littlewhile friend is harder but can do. But Heartscry is not can do. Cadala is scream, so scared, and Heartscry is lose thread. Is not enough fasting. Friends is kill redapes all so fast, baggi is drop Cadala, same way Heartscry is dream, but Heartscry is not choose this dream, nonono! Baggi is climb wall like snail, jellygoo, gone. Heartscry is fearful Cadala is gone, too.

Cadala has broken arm, bad bump for head, but ALIVE! Varis is physician Cadala, she is tell us truestory. When they is run from apes, Querro is trip Dresk. Cadala sees. We is take Cadala back for Tobin, she tells. Hedder is see, too. Querro is say, 'Yes, did. Was slowest. Apes is to be eat slowest. Trip Dresk so Dresk is slowest. Querro is do bad thing, but want for live. Would do again.' Heartscry is want for helping, but Alari is muchmany angryful. Is call Querro, 'Coward', put sword to throat. Querro is shoot Alari with crossbow, Ibon is hit Querro on head with mace. All is bad, fighting, not listen to Heartscry! Is more have for die? How is more die better?

Heartscry is make Alari go walk for calmness. Talk. Dresk is die so Querro is live: Querro must carry weight for life Dresk is not live. Cadala is not want for see Querro ever, so Heartscry is say, 'Querro is come for Throal with us. We is make sure Querro is get safe. Make life worthful in Throal. Try for make goodness enough for Querro and Dresk both.' Kotch is family for Querro, is come too.

Alari is not happyful, but is say to Heartscry, 'Is sorryful for outburst.' Heartscry is say, 'None is perfect. Sometimes we is outburst. Sometimes we is coward. Alive, we is try for bettering, always.' Querro is choose life. Heartscry is hope Querro is has good life in Throal. Much worth, much goodness, much helping.

[Shaalwyd]

Wolf-Father's Library

Spoiler:

Heartscry and Varis and Moore and Rir'Sha is go back to Iceclaw Moot for see how they is do. Trolls there is say, 'Bloodbees is problem everyday. Some is has poison, muchmany badness. We is send to Throal for help. You is come for help?' Is not happyful we is not sent for help with bloodbees, but we is search for lost library.

Is hard for Varis and Moore and Rir'Sha get from Iceclaw Moot down to river. They is not can fly, is wallsteep. Whole day walk for find path down, nextday find place for cross river. We is move slow, but Rir'Sha is teach Heartscry more goodfood, not-goodfood. Is happyful for travel with Moore again.

In nighttime Heartscry is hear bearfight. Nextday we is find bears - angrybears! Bloodbees is hurt. Moore is say, 'Heartscry, make friends!' but bears is too close, Heartscry is not have time for dreamweave friending. Rir'Sha is climb tree, shoot bears; Heartscry is show monster in Varis and Moore to bears, they is make deadful. Moore is metalman, arms and legs made for many blades but body is shield. We is has bearmeat for eating, and Rir'Sha is track bears back for home, find cubs all deadful. Is much sadness. Heartscry is sing for bears.

Nextday we is find many wolves fight many bloodbees - one is poisonbee! Poisonbee is big like Varis, no bloodbag. We is helping wolves, all bloodbees deadful, only one wolf deadful. Then wolves is BOW to us, and Heartscry is dream they speak! Wolves say, 'Follow,' so we follow. Follow wolves to cave and in, magic is everywhere. Cave is deep, many fingers. Wolves is lead twistypath to bigbig door, size for Throaldoor! Is writing on door but not can read, and guardwolves by door is so big, is make obsidiman look windlingish!

Door opens, and we is go in, but all firethings is stay outside. No torch, no lantern, no flint-and-steel. Inside is... books forever. Library is bigger to Throal library! Muchmany beauty, and astral is safe here. Heartscry is never seed safe not-Throal place before. Is man wait for us, same voice we is dreamhear. Man is Wolf-Father! Varis is only one not dreamhear voice, but Wolf-Father is touch Varis, make backfire burn, heal. No more firemark from Horrorsmith! Heartscry is say, 'You is Passion?' but Wolf-Father is say, 'Not. Is Librarian.'

Wolf-Father is say library is more old to Throal. Heartscry is can feel magic, taste magic. Wolves is stand when come in, turn to Name-givers all furry still! Wolf-dwarf, wolf-windling, wolf-human, wolf-t'skrang, wolf-obsidiman! Wolf-Father is say they is his children. Heartscry is think Wolf-Father is Passion, even if say not.

Heartscry is ask, 'We is play with books, yesplease?' Wolf-Father is say, 'Buglady Horror is make three queens. Termitequeen is deadful. Bloodbeequeen is not, and bloodbees is kill Wolf-Father's children. Antqueen is deeper in mountains. Please to be rest here. Is beautiful rooms for sleep in. Then go destroy scoutparty for Bloodbeequeen. You do, then can play for books.' We is say, 'Yesyes! We do!' Moore is disbelieve, think too good for true.

Nextday we is follow wolves for find beescouts. They is hide, not attack? Not know why. See scout sometimes, fly high up. Rir'Sha is shoot with crossbow, make poisonbee angry for attack us. Heartscry is make Moore and Varis otherwhere so poisonbee is not can sting, but is other poisonbee Heartscry is not see! Beesting is big like dagger for Heartscry, stab in back. Pain is make Heartscry lose otherwhere dream. Heartscry is not can move, not can speak, not can even blink. Not see fight.

Know Varis is come get poultice for Heartscry, but still is not can move. Moore is come for pick up Heartscry, say we is need for retreat. Moore is protector. Not can carry Heartscry and axe, so is drop axe. Moore is love that axe. Make with own hands. Would leave behind for make Heartscry safe. Heartscry is still not can see, but Moore is fall, drop Heartscry, not get up. Beestung? All are not can move but Varis, Varis is fire earthdarts at poisonbee, make deadful!
Is so close for alldead. Poisonbee is sting onetime, not can move. When we is get back for Throal, Heartscry is buy antidote potions. Can drink before, poison is not work. Must have for all friends when we is try for fight Bloodbeequeen.

We is go back for library and Wolf-Father is let us play with books. Is say Heartscry and Varis can be for copy spells from grimoires! Is thanks for helping, give gifts. Garlen stone and horn needle for Moore and Rir'Sha, necklace with wolf for Heartscry and Varis. Necklace is thread item! Heartscry necklace is has spell matrix! Muchmany generous. Much excite. Heartscry is want for live with Wolf-Father in library, but Wolf-Father is say not. But can visit again!

[Shaalwyd]

The Obsidimen Birthing-Cave

Spoiler:

Heartscry is learn muchmany obsidimen truth. This is obsidimen story.

Living rock is dream new obsidiman, bring dream to real in birthcaves. Birthcaves is near for obsidiman liferock, can walk, but deep where sun is nevertouch. When living rock is dream new obsidiman, liferock Elders is know, go for birthcave, carry dream home for liferock. Is not obsidiman yet - only rockdream! Obsidimen is share dreams in liferock many years, weave pattern for new brother. Not just rockdream now, has Name. Heartscry is heartful. All obsidimen is liferock dreams!

Cave burrower is obsidiman nightmare. Lurk birthcave, wait for brothers come get rockdream. Eat brothers. Eat rockdream.

When we is nearto Bootencanyon we is see cave burrower, not wake nightmare. Come home for Throal, tell obsidimen. They is say, "Not goodful! Here is truth for cave burrower!" Heartscry is sorryful we is not wake cave burrower. Obsidimen is say, "New brother is come soon. Adepts come with elders for get rockdream, yesplease." Is goodgood. Heartscry and Ibon and Alari and August and Shadow is go!

Kodaro is elder, know way for birthcave. Is easy morningwalk. Outside birthcave is pigbears! Is like pigs but bristle, brown, tusks. Is whole family, mommydaddybabies. Pigbears is not happy for us be nearful, charge Ibon. August and Heartscry is not want for hurt pigbears - August is make daddy runaway, Heartscry is make littlewhile friends for mommy so August is has time for tell her too. Ibon is not understand, hurt mommy bad. August is say, "Run!" to mommy, but mommy is not want for run, not be friends nomore. Alari is stab her sleepstill. August is check mommy, not nurseful. Babies is can live without, but August is bandage wounds so maybe she is heal.

We is go in bigbig cave, down, down, down. Cave is full for bats, Heartscry is dream all is there-not-there, we is sneak quiet like Shadow. Shhhh, bats. Sleepy bats. Dream sweet, sleepy bats. Not to be scared.

We is deep in rock now, much windytwist. Kodaro is not know where in cave rockdream is-willbe. We must search, lanternlight on rockwall. Then there is stonework! Masonry! Heartscry is look for true where stonework is not - is bigbig hole behind! Heartscry is find STAIRS go down! Is manymuch excite, forget for be sneakquiet. Bigbig shriekbat is hear, attack! Alari is airsail like has wings, grab at bat, but bat is SCREAM. Batsong is higher for crystal, not can hear othersong. Only bat, all is bat. No up, no down, only batsong, and we is all falldown. Ibon is obsidiman in birthcave, living rock allaround. Ibon is not need know updown, feet is remember when is only rockdream. Ibon and August and Shadow is make bat stillquiet.

Downstairs is tiny room, one side crystal. All runed, like kaerdoor. Lance is break through crystal from otherside, crackstuck. Lance and crystal is both have patterns! On floor is bones for horrorconstruct, has two legs, four arms, tusks go all the way down for ground and bounce! We is muchmany curious. Is kaerdoor? Alari is think kaerpeople is seal door tootight, try to break from inside with lance. Heartscry is try for runetrace, talk for kaerpeople, but is all broken. Runes is not glow. But Ibon is push hard for make lance go back, leave hole big enough for Heartscry to be crawl through!

Heartscry is learn from bigghoul. Must be carefuller when go to looksee. Is to be make Heartscry otherwhere, then look. But Alari is stop Heartscry, say, "Alari is know brave, but if Heartscry is go, is to be all alone. Friends is not can helping. See, crystaldoor is healing, hole starts for close. Heartscry will be stuck otherside! Please to not be leave Alari." Heartscry is promise will stay with friends, but is look through hole before is all closed. Eyes is not can see, but heart is see badwrong pattern, all dark, tangles. It knows how for see with heart, too. Sees Heartscry.

Alari is always brave, but is wiseful too. Is goodgood friend. Much love for Alari.

Runes is glow when crystal is heal crack. Hole is allgone but for keyhole. We is not has key, and Kodaro is say, "Birthtime is near. Must find brother," so we is go. More looking, more looking... there!

Alari is flip, spin, leap to cave burrower! Is otherwhere all by his ownself, cave burrower is not can touch! Alari is pry plating off burrower like shell off egg, show meat under. Ibon is trollsmash, and then August is charge! Magic in charge is not only heartsee, is glowshine on spear, hand as Shadow spring at burrower, drive into softspot Alari is maked. Cave burrower is lift, smash into rockwall, bluegrey insides gush out along spear. Ibon is hit until nightmare is all gone.

Rockdream is almost ready. Obsidimen is help rockdream find otherness from living rock. Heartscry is sing birthsong! Is not knowed yet that rockdream is not new obsidiman brother. Kodaro is tell. Obsidimen must dream with in liferock muchmany years for weave rockdream true pattern. Then is awakening, with singing and drumming. We is take rockdream back for liferock, elders is bring inside for brotherdream.

Heartscry is so heartful for obsidimen. Not knowed they is understand dreaming like Heartscry! Kodaro is give us drink from liferock waterpool. Obsidimen is share beer, wine, rainwater anytime, but earthwater is only for obsidimen and brothers. Heartscry is brother now.

What is word for opposite to lonely? Heartscry is opposite-to-lonely. Kodaro is say newbrother is awaken twenty years. Heartscry is will be here twenty years for sing with brothers for awakening.

[Shaalwyd]

Settling Borgan's Rest

Spoiler:

Heartscry and Ceadda and new friends Gronk and Krel Tor is help humings go for newtown place, Borgan's Rest. Is not called Borgan's Rest yet, Name is come for end of story. Gronk is smartquiet ork Archer, Krel Tor is wisewatch troll Nethermancer. Heartscry is muchmany excited for new friends!

Humings for live Borgan's Rest is many, bossman is Lareth, wife is Anfalen. Blacksmith, tailor. Is good people but scared for new town, worry all humings is not be friendful. Vah and Zote is brothers for run generalstore, humings is not trustlike. Van and Zote is wordfight, fistfight, and Ceadda is make not fistfight no more but Heartscry is not can get to talk for why angrycross.

Is nighttime! Heartscry is watch, see person go out to wagon, not come back. Whois? Morningtime, is yell from wagon. Heartscry is think, 'Will be deadbody! Peeperson is not peeperson, is killperson!' but is not so badness. Must be for keep happythought, Heartscry is not want for make nightmares.

Rosario is wagonlady, angryful for fathersword gone. Not-peeperson not-killperson is thiefperson, steal in night. Heartscry is think, 'If Rir'Sha is here, Rir'Sha is track, see where thiefperson is goed'. Dream Rir'Sha dream, footprints is go for Zote's tent. Inside is Rosario's fathersword! People is think Zote is thiefperson, but Heartscry is say, 'Thief is smart. Take sword, hide in own tent is stupid. Someone is want for Zote be blameful, but Zote is not do!' But Lareth and Rosario and Ceadda is not believe Heartscry and Lareth is say to Zote, 'Is banished! Go back for Throal.'

Heartscry is think, 'Who is angryful for Zote, want Zote goned? Vah.' So Heartscry is go talk for Vah, make littlewhile friend for truth. Vah is not friending, say, 'Go away bug, not want for talk to you.' Heartscry is know littlewhile friend is only meanwords if hates Heartscry. Why Vah is hate Heartscry? Vah is know Heartscry is know Zote not thiefperson is why! Heartscry is ask, 'You is know who take sword?' Vah is say, 'Will not answer.' Heartscry is say, 'Vah taked sword.' Vah is say, 'Not! Did not take!' So Heartscry is know Vah did not take sword, but know who thiefperson is. Must be for plan with thiefperson, or how could know? Iswas in tent all night since sword was taked!

Lareth is not want for listen Heartscry, so Heartscry is fly for Zote. Say, 'Zote, Heartscry is know you is not do it. Lareth will know soon. Follow humings, Heartscry and friends will make right, Lareth will say, 'Zote, come back!'' Zote is do. Krel Tor is follow, watch. Krel Tor is think much, say little. Muchmany wiseness.

Allday Heartscry is talk for humings, ask what is see, know. All is say truth to Heartscry, but not Kirtar. Kirtar is fisherman, say he is not know who took sword but is know. Krel Tor is follow Heartscry, listen for people talk when Heartscry is gone. Vah and Zote is brothers, father iswas merchant. Humings is say father iswas thief, but they is not mean Thief-thief, they is mean merchant-thief. Vah and Zote has muchmany riches from father, argue for who is get. Now Zote is banished, Vah is get all. Vah and Kirtar is goodfriends. We is think we know what is happen. Vah and Kirtar is plan together, Kirtar is steal sword and put for Zote's tent, Zote is blameful, Vah is get all fatherrich, share with friend Kirtar. But how we is show Lareth? Gronk is find way! Nighttime, Heartscry and Gronk is watchful. Gronk is hearsee Vah pay Kirtar for helping, shoots arrow for Vah's foot, make Vah not can move! Vah is loudscream, all is wake. Not time for Kirtar be run, hide. All is see Vah, Kirtar, moneybag. Gronk is tell what they is say, and Lareth is believe now! Banish Vah and Kirtar, say Zote iscan be not banished. Zote comes back, Lareth is say, 'Lareth iswas wrong. Is sorryful. Home is with us now.'

Nextday Lareth is say, 'Scoutmarks is stop, but scouts is not here. Please to be find scouts?' Heartscry is dream for Rir'Sha again, follow to big bear call Brithan! Ceadda is say Brithan is roar for challenge him, but Heartscry is dream best for Ceadda. Show Ceadda's monster, dream Ceadda is otherwhere when Brithan is hurt Ceadda bad. Is not wrong to dream for Ceadda, yesno?

Ceadda is win challengefight! Heartscry is think not safe for leave bigbear so close to new huming town, but Ceadda is say Brithan is know this is Ceadda's territory now, will not be to hurt Ceadda's people. Ceadda is huming. Should be goodful.

Heartscry is hear painsounds, fly for find hurted scout! None is know how for physician, but Heartscry is feed potion for help heal and scout is say he is run from monster with spear near river. Is leave behind otherscout, please to go help! Ceadda is a tree, and we is go for helping. River is longlong way!

Otherscout is deadful when we is find. Is name Borgan. Bloodraven is eat him! Spearmonster is still there, Ceadda is say is Bog Gob. Bog Gob eat Namegivers is nightmare, but Heartscry is not can see badness in astral. We is not seed snakes! Snake is bite Krel Tor, Gronk. Poison is badbadbad. Always bad. Heartscry is make Krel Tor and Ceadda otherwhere, but bloodraven is chase Heartscry, claw for eyes. Krel Tor is shoot raven with astral spear, manythanks! Is otherraven! Heartscry is not can see what is happen for all fighting, ismust flyaway raven. Know Gronk is stillquiet, but is not look hurtbad. Poison? Heartscry is feed Gronk potion for helping and Ceadda is stab hungryraven to deadness and Heartscry is not sorry because Heartscry is not want for be ravenfood! Bog Gob is muchmany fearful for Krel Tor, try for runaway, but Bog Gob is nightmare so we is chase and make wakeful.

Humings is name newtown Borgan's Rest for deadscout Borgan, and Zote is sell us good things for helping and Anfalen is make Heartscry a most beautiful scarf for give Alari, looks like sunset! Alari is overjoy, and Heartscry is heartful. Is good gift for good friend.

Heartscry is muchmany happyful for Borgan's Rest humings and longtime friends (Ceadda is longtime friend now, is goodness) and newfriends Gronk and Krel Tor! Is littlebit sad for not can help Zote and Vah be brotherlove. Heartscry is maybe look for Vah and Kirtar, makesure is safe for Throal. Soonday more people is want for make town, need fisherman, yesno? Maybe Vah and Kirtar iscan go with, new try.