Noctisardor Bypass the longships

"oh yes, the night is a good time for little snakes." he led druid just inside the edge of the watercolor wood, and showed here a tree standing aside by itself.
a sapling, and coiled around its base was an immense yellow slug with dark markings, nearly druid's own length.
"she is the königinmutter of slugs," mahler whispered to the child.
he would linger there as long as the wished, before indicating the thick and silvery trails leading deeper into a stack of mossy stones, a shaft of moonlight shining down upon them.