[LordCove]

So... the tale is... Vampire's are abound.

Oh.. I believed it. I'd heard what happened to Abi and Bear, and I think it was Kry's wife who apparently got kidnapped by one... poor lass. All this I heard from Storold and Sala's conversation.
But usually.. I hear these rumour's... and see nothing about them for myself.

Well.. until I went out venturing across Dregar. Poor kid came running right up to us.... terrified... and not one of them... Ark, Jaelle, Gravas, Argail, Brian, not one of them knew what to do with a terrified child.
Well... I put on my "daddy" head and calmed the lad down, and found out what happened. Ticked me off big time.
Whole family killed by Vamps... or... possibly all.

And it would have been all. We tracked them to the woods near the Back-bone mountains... and thanks to Brians scouting and Ark's " Baiting" Techniques... which I gotta say... when I saw him dart past me with a dozen vampires chasing him... are sadly lacking. But still... he did it long enough for me and Brian to grab that lass from the back of the wagon and drag her to safety.

And Trouble! This ticked me too! Tegs says he wants to go and spend a week in Folians woods....
...alone!

Is he bloody kidding me... a close to twelve year old kid... spending a week in the woods alone? And he asked Tegs to ask me?!
Not a bloody chance!
One night.. thats what he can have. And unbeknownst to him... I'll keep hidden to the shadows and watch every move he makes the entire night.
Yes... I know Folians Grove is sacred and safe... but it dont mean Im stupid enough to let him roam around it for a week alone.
He could fall down a cliff, into a river... hell.. there "is" a balance... and Im sure children are part of the bloody food chain there too!