A small clearing approximately 5 miles from town

[Gurok]

Gurok walks untill she collapses, and sobbs quietly into the mossy earth, untill sleep takes her. When she wakes, she eats one of the apples in her pockets. She paces, mumbling fervently to herself, slowly raising her voice to a shout untill her voice breaks, the falls to her knees, and starts sobbing once again. This goes on for a few days.

[Volkihere Malacalo]

At one point she hears rage filled screams and then a tree falling.

[Gurok]

Gurok chuckles through her drying tears, and mutters "Same though.", before falling back to sleep.

[Gurok]

Gurok wakes up on the damp mossy forest floor. She sits up, brushing off the pine needles stuck to her clothes and skin. Her tusks ache. She closes her bleary eyes and kneels silently, face turned up to the sky. After a few minutes, she smiles sadly, bows her head and rises again to her feet. She knows what she must do. She goes from bush to bush, tree to tree, in a meandering path that eventually, after many hours, leads her back to Holdfast. Anyone watching would notice that she seems to be gathering something in her skirt.

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