Chapter 8: Helemoira

It took quite a bit of convincing to get Pelleas to leave me in Adhmad Dé alone after our time together, but I persuaded him that I still had my duties to attend to and no one could see him leaving the wood, especially with me.

Once he was gone, I collected my things and resumed my investigation. To my horror, there were more corpses of creatures to be found. Five to be exact. I buried them all the same way that I had with the Mammoth Gibbon; using my magic to swallow them back into the soil of Adhmad Dé.

What dead plants I came across, I was able to rectify with my magic easily enough. Though, I could tell that it would not hold for long.

By the time I had come across the sixth creature, I was in a state of near panic. I crumbled to the ground and scooped the Silver-Scaled Hummingbird into my hands and wept over its tiny body.

"Geien, where are you?" I asked of the little creature.