[Leshariel]

I've been so busy lately! From a wedding proposal to vampire attacks and a lead to a lost bard book found!

Where to start? Well, I headed home one night and Verideth told me to look for something inside of one of the chests in the house. I looked there and I found a yellow gold ring! He made it for me and then he asked "Will you marry me?". Of course, after I hugged him and cried over his shoulder, I said yes. *smiles*

I didn't think I would fall in love again. My loss took me to very deep places that I would never want to see again. I've become stronger and more skillful and I owe that to losing my beloved Stone. My determination to become stronger to help those who need in battle has lead me to learn new techniques and tactics.

After Stone's death, I've come to learn that he would have loved me to be happy and to be with someone that guards my back when in battle or out there alone in the woods. Verideth does that, he watches for me and always helps me. *smiles warmly*

Shortly after that, we headed out to help Tod find a city he needed to head out. Apparently, he needed to find someone to learn to hide on the shadows just like Alatriel does. I went eager to help with my song, just in case he ran into any difficulties. Verideth came along too.

When we reached high on the mountains, we found this misterious man who kept disappearing. Apparently, he had lost his shadow. He was... a bit incoherent. Perhaps he has been talking to his shadow too much and he's become a bit irrational? Not sure about that, but I know that we got surrounded by shadows that attacked us for no reason. It made me wonder if shadows could ever be helpful. I have seen Alatriel call some shadows that actually do help in battle, so not all of them must be evil.

After trying to guess some riddles that this man told us to answer, he finally agreed to teach Tod of the skills needed to dance with the shadows. I have seen him after that and he indeed can hide very well. I'm glad he's become a very skillful fighter and also very helpful in battle. I feel proud of his achievements, not sure why. I guess his sense of humor and how he's overcome his past gives me hope that not everyone who is a thief has to be a thief for life.

Then, to the vampire attack. Some time, during the last few months, I met with Lyle, the bard who I met at Hedessa's party. He told me about some instruments and horns he crafts. I was in the middle of talking to him about buying some items from him, near the crafting hall in Port Hempstead, when we heard a scream. We rushed out to see what happened and we found... a dead boy.

Others came around to see what was happening, and we found out that the boy had some kind of wound, lots of blood, all over his neck. Apparently, a bite of a human or about that size. Aerimor came by and searched the premises but found nobody. I would assume that if it was a vampire, like Daniella suggested after that, he/she would hide very well in the night. After all, the vampire did this attack with us being around, so there was no intention on concealing it.

The captain came over and they wrote a report of Daniella's lead and they took the body. Poor boy... an orphan with nobody to miss him. The attacker definitely knew to select a weak prey that couldn't defend himself. I do hope these attacks don't spread even more. A vampire in town will definitely put all the town in alert.

This last week, we headed to our latest adventure, with much success. Verideth has been trying to find out about this bard treasure, a book with notes that a bard took while going out to the mountains and watching the goblins there.

Interesting enough, we gathered a small group. There was Aerimor, his twin brother, Caerwyn, who's abilities in battle have grown so much since the time we met, and Tod, who when it comes to fighting and pie, I admire as well! *chuckles*

We found ourselves heading out to the mountains. We got attacked by some goblins, some riding spiders, others with flags with a pentagram on them. Tod got a hold of one of the flags to make sure that we had one for our research.

We moved on and followed the road and we found ourselves at a village, by the mountains. There was a human couple there, who told us they didn't know much about this bard who took notes, but they did hear about someone been buried in town after been killed by the goblins. Interesting enough, this couple would react almost scared when we mentioned the mayour of town.

We went to talk to the guards, who seemed very relaxed about the mayor not been in town, but then the goblin threat was around. So... made me wonder if the mayor went by himself.

Shortly afer that, we found a ranger who agreed on leading us to where the bard that Verideth was looking for had fallen. After abandoning us, we found ourselves in the middle of the woods. We scouted the area, and Caerwyn almost dies from a snake attack. The snake was next to a dead body, and we thought it would be someone on Storold's group that went there before to scout the area. We don't believe it was.

We found soem wolves. Caerwyn talked to them in animal language and he was told that the goblins were gone and died from the spores of the mushroom men. Hm... interesting. We scouted the area and found them finally. They tried to stunt us but we succeeded on defeating them.

We found some bodies and it was our lucky day to find the notes that Verideth so much looked for to restore the woods. We found the notes on some bones that were very similar to others we found before... looked like goblin bones. They must have taken the notes from that bard guy and keep them. I'm glad we could recover them. We were lucky to head out unharmed, no goblins, no fighting on our way back.

I look forward to see how these investigations will help Verideth restore the woods. He has this passion to fix this and make the land better outside Fort Wayfare.

Meanwhile, I'll continue crafting and waiting to see how all these events develop... vampires, goblins, forrests, and all.

And I look back and wonder at one more thing before I finish my notes for today. Looking back at the human couple in town... they were nervous... many of the explorers thought that the Shaman they talked about was the mayor of the city. At some point, Verideth asked this ranger guy about the mayor and he responded talking about the goblin shaman. Makes me wonder... coud a goblin assume the shape of a human? Perhaps the shape of an elf?