Gorad's Son

[AssassinMan98]

Luca hears a thud in the distance . He looks around, startled. His mind starts racing, He begins to think,"Have they found me?" He clambers up a tree and waits silently, his father's bow at the ready. After a half hour of hearing nothing, the young elf jumps down and begins to scout the area. He sees a cottage in the distance, and cautiously approaches. Then, he sees the culprit; a man, fallen face down in the leaves, most likely dead from an ailment of some sort. Luca walks towards the body and shakes his head in empathy,"What a shame, a life gone." He begins an elven ritual of burial, silently blessing the body with good wishes of a happy life with the Divines. He picks up the body, and jumps startled, seeing a baby, with no protection from the cold of the fall, a next to it, a note. Luca gently puts down the body and looks through his pack. He finds a warm, ratty blanket and enshrouds the child, leaving him there, seeing as it was probably left there with a purpose, and slips the note in as well. He picks up the dead man's body and takes it the edge of the forest, and begins to chant in the elven language. The words float around the body with a light green tint. Suddenly, the body morphs into a fresh sapling, protected by the wards of nature. Luca hears the sound of a heavy man approaching, and scampers away silently.

((You're welcome guthrie))

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