Whitebark Stream e[m]barazada

They were getting close to the trees. Ashlar recognized the area, and he began to look about more intently the nearer they got.

I will. He answered, pausing in the search to look at her for a moment. He wanted her to know he did not mind. It’s… the plant, it should be safe. For you. But it might still… I don’t know. I’ll stay, just in case. For that and for her.

Hopefully it would only be a few days. Avicus was nearing her time as well, though he imagined he had a bit of leeway still. He did not want to miss that for the sake of a stranger, but she was alone and Avicus was not. Prophet would do what he couldn’t if this turned out to be the case.

She would understand this. He was Haelend because he could not allow others to come to harm, not even strangers on the path he had chosen.