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.