Session 105: 23rd August 2022 - Boars
Xan enters the balcony where the beloved Miss Issy sits on her chair, enjoying the sunset.
Xan sheepishly approaches her and asks her about the murders, and if she knows any more about what happened.
How did Steros die?
He went out to get night air and look at the crops, he was found in the morning with his throat cut and dumped in a ditch, not even hidden.
Who else died?
One or two women a month, similar to Stavros
The women were not hidden - they were killed the same way as Stavros
Her own mother was not a part of this series of killings.
When was the last murder?
His was the last, around 10 days
Pandora was taken to the shore as she died and was put nearer the ocean, in an attempt to try and help her heal. Xan says she appreciated this, as she can feel her mother with her when she goes into the sea.
Gold thought highly of Xan, even though he did not say it to her face, Ismene promises she was high valued, and calls her Yellow Bird.
Xan leaves her, promising she will come back to speak with her, after she has captured the poison from the boars horns.
The windmill
They approach a yard with a windmill centred in the middle of crop fields. Xan remembers it from her childhgood, stealing bread from the shelves within as her festive gifts. Running away giggling with her prize under her arm.
But now a different flutter in her belly. The party split and set up in different directions on the windmills circumference. Xan settles on a high ramp leading up around the building. She settles down and stares off into the distance, expecting a figure to appear from far away.
But it appears close, and before she can work out what has happened a boar appears by her side. She jumps, over the beast and lands behind it, shooting an arrow into it’s rear. It turns and swipes at her with it’s horns, but misses. She scrapes pebbles from the side of the windmill under its feet and it seems to distract it. A few more swipes into its body and it disappears as quickly as it appeared.
She looks down and sees Helikaon on the ground, beaten by the bigger of the beasts.
As she rounds the windmill she reaches another boar, seemingly coming from nowhere again. She throws pebbles at it but all it does it seem to annoy it. She stabs it in it’s back with her dorata. Again and again. Until it is gone. She stares into the space for a second then moves to the end of the ramp to try and help her companions. She is hit with a thick cloud, and falls unconscious.
Wispy blackness and horrible grunting. She is being chased thorough the fields hunted down by a demon. She is clutching Pan dog in her hands as she falters and trips into the vines tangles around her feet.
She wakes up, seeing Braz and Helikaon on the ground. They need to get out of here. She skids down the side of the windmill, landing by Helikaon and covering him in dust. She reaches through his pockets and locates a small vial of healing, and looks back to Braz. He’s healed before, she pours it in his mouth and he flutters back to signs of life.
They flee.