Another time stamp

*I saw a crocus this morning. It was a lovely shade of purple, peaking it's little nose out of the remnants of snow. I think that winter is finally about to end. It's about time, to be honest, the last snowstorm took so much out of us... and I'm pretty sure that, at this point, we'd be reaching summer weather, if we were still at the school.*

*Today we reached another small town. Not much to say about it except that most people there don't seem to know how to read. They were prepping the fields for the summer's harvest. Something I would normally deem too early, considering how cold the nights still are, but I guess they only have a limited amount of time to see their crops grow.*

*Before entering the village, we split into teams so people wouldn't know that we're all together. Last town over, I heard a rumour about some people looking for a group of five teenagers, so I think someone is on our trail. Is it because of Andy? Because of Lance? Hard to tell, if I'm being honest. Eventually, albeit all that planning, I realized that we had gathered together to eat lunch. At the local inn... Not our brightest hour. Nope...*

*Gosh, I'm so tired..*

*So, before gathering for lunch like idiots, we actually had goals to fulfill. Elijah and Mirri found some work and helped in the fields. They tried to get some information about the war from the locals, but aside from someone mentioning that their offspring was off to fight, they couldn't gather much. Their work in the fields done, they found some makeup and accessories to help Andy disguise himself as a human.*

*Oh, important note, Andy has now used his last disguise self charge from the stone we found a while back.*

*While the boys were in the fields, Lance went to buy spices and got... well spices, but also a very weird orange liquid. I'm not quite sure as to what happened, but I think that he went to the local alchemist? I don't think that we'll leave him alone with that kind of mission, next time.*

*On our end, Andy and I headed to the inn. We tried to get a hold on a newspapers. I mean, what a better way to learn about the world? But quickly this lead to a wild chase after a gremlin nicknamed Jack the Burrower. Who escaped, unfortunately. I... am not quite sure of how we got there? One second we were talking to the innkeeper, the next we were dashing through a door and down an alley.*

*Admitting our failure, Andy and I headed back to the inn, where we cleaned the dishes to pay for our meal. Seeing our disconcerted expressions, the innkeeper told us to take a chance with the local hermit who lives up the road. He was bound to know something.*

*After a real meal during which Andy tried to tell the others about Jack, to no avail, we headed up to the hermit's house. We had a* lovely *chat with the man (clearly a conspiracy theorist). And I ended up toying with him, pushing more conspiracies in his mind. What was the point to try to rationally discuss anyway?* *He got very nervous and he expelled us from his house. I took that occasion to steal his not-really-accurate-but-still-better-than-nothing map of the North.*

*Next stop, the next town! Not the town before or the one thereafter.. just the next town! That one should have a postal office.*

*Why am I even making these entries anymore?*

*Note to self: Keep an eye on Andy, he seems angrier than ever. Any little thing sets him off. Was I wrong to pick him?*

*Second note to self: Elijah momentarily parted ways from the group. What did he do?*

## What Sol didn't see

At the end of the episode, Mirri pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. He took a moment to read it, looked at Sol and went "I knew it!" before placing the paper back in his pocket.

A couple minutes later, Elijah headed off to the woods to look at something the animal he conjured had found. It turned out to be a token of Palor. Elijah looked at it for a moment, then told Palor that he wouldn't champion for someone who allowed things as horrible as the war to happen. He then threw away the trinket.

## New characters

This episode introduced the Hermit of Conspiracies and Jack the Burrower.