Gate of Memoirs/Voice of the Forest

Glaes acquires a new party member, whether he wanted it to happen or not.
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Music: "Dragon's Roar"	Music: "Dragon's Roar"
 	
*The bear retreats in a huff at Glaes's ungentle rebukes, deep growls emanating from its chest.
*The remaining hunters throw their weapons down in fright and take off after their fleeing companions.
*Grizzled Hunter: 'E's come... Old Zero, and 'e's angry with us!
 	
*Glaes: ...Old?
Music: "Cordelica" 	Music: "Cordelica"
 	
*Glaes: Sigh...
*Glaes: Times have really changed, haven't they.
*Glaes: No respect for the ancients... *grumble*
 	
*Maeri: Ahaha...
 	
*Maeri: At least no one got too hurt...
 	
*Maeri spies something sticking out of the scratched up ground at the corner of her eye.
*Another continuation of the tale—this one more intact than the rest.
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*Narrator: "Driven by desperation, hunters roused the slumbering bears in their search for food, and---"
*Maeri: (This part is scratched out...)
*Maeri: (Huh? The next section is written in a different ink.)
*Narrator: "---were saved from a grisly death by the Stag."
*Narrator: "Yet all was bleak. And the Stag knew not what to do."
*Narrator: "Suddenly, a voice rang out across the wood."
*Narrator: "Seek the Heart of Spring that rests within a cradle of stone."
*Maeri fishes out the scraps of paper she had collected thus far.
*True enough, paragraphs here and there mysteriously displayed their new amendments in shining blue ink.
*As if the tale itself was being rewritten...
 	
*Glaes: I don't think I've asked...but what ARE these strange papers?
 	
*Maeri: Ahh!
 	
*Maeri: Hey! No sneaking up on me!
 	
*Glaes: I am sorry.
 	
*Maeri: Well... Umm, I think these are important.
*Maeri: They seem to tell us where to go, see?
*Maeri: It says here, the "Heart of Spring"—
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*Maeri: (Huh? What was that?)
 	
*Glaes inclines his head in a thoughtful hum as Maeri pats her face a few times.
 	
*Glaes: The "Heart of Spring"...
*Glaes: Come to think of it, there was a rumor about an exceptionally warm cave up in the mountains.
*Glaes: Though I've never elected to go near it. It's nowhere near the forest.
 	
*Maeri: Umm... Well, if it helps, I think I just saw a place like that...
 	
*Glaes: ..."Saw", you say?
*Glaes: Hmm. I won't press you, child, but it seems to me that you can...sense things.
 	
*Indeed, Maeri's aura was most peculiar to him—certainly not of someone of this land, or even this world.
 	
*But the girl seemed solid enough. Not a ghost, then. 
*And not a spirit Glaes knew, certainly.
 	
*Maeri: Umm... Mister Glaes? Is there something on my face?
 	
*Glaes: Oh. No, it's nothing...
*Glaes: Can you tell me more about the Heart?
 	
*Maeri: Let's see...
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*Narrator: "So the Stag went with the girl, into the heart of the mountain..."
*Narrator: "...In search of Spring's blazing heart."
*Narrator: "What will they find there, swaddled in ancient caverns?"
*?: More importantly... How is she able to change our world so?