The Roots (Pt. 2b)

The Roots (Pt. 2b)
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The Roots (Pt. 2b) is the 38th chapter of Volume 10.

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Rags sits at The Wandering Inn waiting for a signal.
The next day there is no sign of Mrsha and no efforts to find her make due in their attempts.
Two days later and still no trace of Mrsha can be found, in a desperate push Lyonette and her group goes to confront those who seek the wand.
Rags and whatever leftover help she finds dig in the [Garden of Sanctuary] all the way to the bottom and comes up empty handed.
Rags pauses as she hears a so distant yet so all-consuming slam.

Rags sits within The Wandering Inn waiting for a signal and contemplates on who she can call on for help. While wallowing in indecision, Rags manages to get herself drunk enough to blackout. The next day she is awoken up by banging on the door and requests a status report through the speaking stones, with an affirmation that everything is clear so far. Rags opens the door to see Ishkr and Ser Dalimont going through every room in order to find the whereabouts of Mrsha. They discuss if a hostile perpetrator did anything but Lyonette says she didn't feel any hostile intentions within the inn, a conclusion Rags comes to is that Mrsha is hiding somewhere in the [Garden of Sanctuary] but alas that's already been checked.

As the day goes on and no further luck in finding Mrsha, Lyonette gets more and more agitated to the point were she calls for war against what she thinks is the only probable culprit left, the beings that are calling for the wand with the Dryad seed. Rags asks Calescent for information on who these beings are and receives "Spooky woods people" as an answer. With the feeling of needing to help, Rags goes scouting around the greater area on wyverns and using detect skills yet no luck finding Mrsha. What they did find was a giant sock puppet that instantly paralyzed them once being seen and brought the goblins to the inn. After being reprimanded Rhisveri does attempt to help find Mrsha to no avail.

Two days have passed and Mrsha has still not been found. While Lyonette hounds at Ushar to give a more clear reading of what her skill tells about Mrsha's wellbeing, Rags takes a more in-depth investigation in the [Garden of Sanctuary] recounting the events of Mrsha's day. As she looks over the garden she sees the patch of marigolds and upturned dirt and remembers Valeterisa casting a spell upon Mrsha which allowed her to dig. With an inkling suspicion Rags then ask Peggy to dig as far down as she can next to the flowers to see if that suspicion laid any truth. Moments later a distressed Ushar informs Rags that Lyonette and the group she mustered are missing. After a second search party is formed they find out that Lyonette and her group have travelled to the people who were searching for the wand.

Rags now has any goblins available digging in the garden near where there were signs of Mrsha digging. When they reached the bottom all they were faced with was nothing, no hole nor clue of where Mrsha can be. Bewildered, Rags is then informed that another group is going to travel to where Lyonette's group went. As Rags blankly assess all that has happened, she hears a so distant yet so all-consuming slam.