Episode 110 - Lighthearted

## Synopsis

The episode starts with SWIM leaving Seltie's hut, exiting into the technicolor snow falling on bare trees. While consulting Ferimel's detail map, the students discussed what to do. Mira Marchand was reluctant to fulfill Seltie's request, but Winsler Wallaby reminded her that he had signed a contract wth Seltie. Serinepth Sinderman theorized that Ferdinand might be nicer than Seltie, but said that she still would not have wanted to get involved with the "weird and dodgy" Seltie, if not for her owning part of Winsler's soul.

While the students were discussing what to do, a tree bent lurched violently forward, depositing its leaves on the ground and a branch on Serinepth's head, causing the roots of the hairs on the top of her head to turn green like the tree's bark. Using their arcanometer, Winsler discovered intense nature magic on the top of Serinepth's head, "like a cherry." The leaves on the ground, meanwhile were rotting quickly.

SWIM made their way towards the Moles, up a steep hill, arriving at a clearing where most of the trees had been cut down and yellow sand cobered the ground. Rushing past a series of 8 foot diameter holes in the ground, the students were accosted by two moles who chased them underground "like Moo Moo Meadows". The moles promised that should SWIM not pay the mole toll, they would be hunted down by the mole king. Mira promised to pay the mole toll on the way back, upon which the moles promised to beat the toll out of the students if they didn't do so.

Descending a slope towards a hockey stick shaped valley, the students came upon the Moistest Marsh. A dark green stream ran through the moist landscape, which was crossable by a shoddy looking boardwalk. Unlike the rest of the Plain of Isathil, the colours of the marsh were relatively muted. The marsh itself seemed uninhabited, save for some debris and lifeless huts. Yellow and blue pulsing balls of light floated around the marsh, mesmerizing Integrity Idleberry, who slipped under the railing with a squelch before hoofing it towards a small corner. All the lights then flocked around Integrity, shepherding her. Seeing this, Serinepth yelled out for her cousin, who ignored her, shouting "Beautiful lights, let me follow you~ Your beauty is so captivating!" Serinepth tried to Levitate Integrity who resisted, wading further and further away from her friends. Winsler tried to throw use Produce Flame to attack the lights, but missed due to the boardwalk railing blocking his view. Just as Integrity was about to leave her friends' effective range, Mira was able to free her from the lights' influence using Counterspell. SWIM continued along the boardwalk, approaching a dark path towards a beaver dam like hut. Winsler reflected on how he would have been able to discern whether this was a woods witch's hut, had he not thrown the book about said creatures out a window at Wildcliff. Greeted by the smell of pies, the students spotted a sign proclaiming the structure to be "Lodge of the L (appended)ost" with part of the sign being an addendum to the previous sign. Just before the students entered they heard a loud sound similar to meat being cleft, and looking up they saw Shin Pem leaving the Plane of Isathil, taking with him much of the light and colour suffusing the realm.