Forests, Ogres, and Bad Choices

by Lorekeeper Eleonora Jorgensen

Entry 210721

Aldis and Gunnar caught up with me after they spoke with Cassandra and Michael. The child had been marking out his 'club house' with the symbol. Aldis had taught him a new symbol for him to use, so hopefully we won't have an further problems on that front.

We went back to the main island to pick up supplies and meet up with Brenna at Gattarhlid.

We spent some time circumnavigating the entrance of the park to avoid the rangers. Since most of the any housing developments would be closer to the south side of the forest, we decided to start there and make our way north. Hopefully we might be able to find Michaels 'hideout' and deal with the markings before trying to deal with whatever creatures they had attracted.

I think something might be following us.

[The next few pages are water stained, the ink slightly burry] It started raining, because of course it did.

Aldis and Brenna seemed upset with something. Granted, we are in a monster infested forest during a rainstorm but I think it's deeper than that.

Aldis lead us down some deer trails to a cave with an old door on it. She said that it reminded her of home... I feel a little bad that I haven't had enough time to work with her on research, but honestly, where does one begin? I feel like I could find more information on time travel in the Science Fiction section of the public library.

I got a better idea of what was following us. It's big. At least 15 feet tall. That could be a problem.

We talked inside the cave. The creature knows we are in here, but is probably too big to get us in here. It's a waiting game at the moment.

Brenna said the creature was a Ku'kwes. A massive ogrelike being with claws and a bear head. It eats people but will eat other animals as well. She got the impression that there were two- a mated pair. The last thing this island needs is baby man eating monsters running about the forest. Luckily they are particularly stupid, so hopefully we can have at least one advantage.

Gunnar told the others about his shadow, which frankly, I'm glad I'm not having to keep that particular secret close to the chest. We hatched a plan to have his shadow take one of the two way radios so we make noise into it and lure them away. We knew Gunnar wouldn't be able to keep it up forever, and the creature might pick up on the ruse if we weren't quick enough, so we made our way out of the cave.

They found us. Had to fight and run. Everyone got hurt. Ran out of options. I didn't have much choice. I hate how happy it made me. The spell was lovely. It worked It hurt my friends. I shouldn't feel happy. The creatures are dead. They're safe from the monsters. Are they safe from me? Brenna told me to kill the second one. She said she could bear the pain. I shouldn't have given her the option. I hurt them. I can't take that back. I can't fix this. I should never be that happy. It only brings bad things. I deserve what I have and no more. I can't do that again. I shouldn't do that again. No more. Will they forgive me? I wouldn't begrudge them if they didn't. Maybe some people just shouldn't be around other people.

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