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* "Day 5. Fresh fissure above the old wall-line. Cut stone inside: steps. Someone built down there." | * "Day 5. Fresh fissure above the old wall-line. Cut stone inside: steps. Someone built down there." | ||
* "Day 6. Singing at night from the crack. One voice, then many. Sounds like a roll call." | * "Day 6. Singing at night from the crack. One voice, then many. Sounds like a roll call." | ||
* "Day 7. Stopped by the Hollis Ranch today to warn them, strange things are afoot." | |||
* The last entry is shaky: "Green eyes in the trees. They walked past me. Didn't look twice." | * The last entry is shaky: "Green eyes in the trees. They walked past me. Didn't look twice." | ||
An rough-but-usable map shows the location of Gredding, the Hollis Ranch, and the "old wall-line" and the "fissure". | |||
The party buries the deceased, Elena collects herbs and speaks with the trees, and camps for the night, getting a fresh start early towards the Hollis Ranch. | |||
Alas, the ranch has been attacked, the family dead in front of their house, throats crushed. A nearby elm tree volunteers to Elena, "'The cold ones, they took the girl.'" | |||