All's Well That Ends Well

* Alec stands in front of Mr. Sommerland. He’s in a testy mood but Alec remains calm in the face of his rant.
* Signe though is a little more blunt, saying they’ve had to tiptoe around in their investigation to preserve the reputation of the Refugium.
** But now that time is of the essence we can throw caution to the wind.
* Alec quotes Emerson to Sommerland and it flusters him.
* Martha and Wila are dressed for a ladies day of spelunking.
* William wants coffee
* Cyrus is muttering to himself, telling the spirits around him that if they’re going to be around they have to be helpful. 
* It’s coming up to peak time for low tide so we make our way to the Lone Grave.
** Our intention is to repel down the cliff face with our rope.
** There are no trees to secure our rope so Wila stays behind to help us.
* We all make our way down the cliff, William twists an ankle. 
* Cyrus warns us we have about 1-2 hours before the returning tide becomes a problem
** The longer we take the harder it will be to get out.
* We head into the cave
* We see a crevasse at the back, we can get through but it’s a tight squeeze.
** Martha sends Eddie through to look for clues
** We follow to save time and torch light
** Signe and Martha’s dresses get torn a bit, only Martha is concerned about it.
** We see a series of tube-like holes in the walls. They’re too small to get into but Eddie returns out of one with a piece of vegetation in his beak.
** It’s a stem and new leaf of a plant. We determine there must be fresh water further inland.
** These tunnels head back in the direction of the Refugium
* We decide to head back as we can’t go any further
* Alec has the idea to check the well at the Refugium or other nearby freshwater sources.
** We go back.
* Signe helps Alec repel into the well
** Our logic for this is that Cyrus sensed something beneath the island.
** They don’t find anything.
* Cyrus asks Mr. Jones the groundskeeper about the well, he says it was only built a few years ago, around the time the Refugium was.
* He starts checking around the well for footprints, and starts moving further and further away from the group. . .
** He starts smelling flowers and feels a pull away from the Refugium
** He hears a voice, “This way my sweet/love, we can be together forever, come with me.”
** He feels an arm slip around his waist, like he’s leading a lady to a dance.
* Wila notices Cyrus wandering away oddly. She calls out to him, waving, snapping him out of his trance.
** He didn’t notice he was wandering off.
** He immediately consults his crystal ball, gets nothing, and grows angry
*** Useless ghosts!
* Martha says she’ll be right back. . . what we don’t see is that she goes back to her room to see if she can get any clues to Cyrus’s behaviour from her automatic writing ability.
** She gets several lines of bad poetry
** Her hand writing style changes.
** Then one line sticks out above the others: “The child is yours. . .” in a looped feminine hand
** SHEEESH
** She doesn’t recognize the handwriting.
** She explains this away by saying she “found” a note planted in her room under the bed.
* Signe, Alec, and Cyrus talk:
** This is not normal for him.
*** We agree he is under the influence of the Vaesen we’re tracking.
* We show the leaf to Mr. Jones, he confirms it’s a weed that grows all over the island.
** He isn’t aware of any fresh water caves on the island, or if any wells are making people ill.
* We decide to carry on, and take the carriage to the south villages.