Chapter 13

We disperse the Order of the Cleansing Wave and then depart from Lone Mountain Keep in various directions - Tira and Knotrael toward the Valley, the rest of us toward the Grove. We pass through Ipth and find it under the control of Memory, an elvish spymaster who is masquerading as a vehemently anti-elvish human. We continue onwards through several interesting ancient landmarks including Ghost Hollow Hill, and then a troll-made Vanishing Swamp that somehow imprisons my seemingly-elvish-now-ancient-fae teacher of blood magic. While I do not release Magdalena, I promise to visit and free her when it would not jeopardize my work with the trolls. She leaves both me and Camellia with a strong sense of elves and fae being family - a premonition.