had an idea for this first

[iconoclassist]

[So, camp's been made, displacer beast has been discovered to not be a delicacy any-goddamn-where, and grievously injured or not, certain elves don't sleep much, so they've chased other people off watches and are, currently, flopped in the cart and reading.

...Look. No one said she was a good patient, and she heals remarkably quickly, anyway.]

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[fieldarcanum]

[He seems to have no objections to her staying so close.]

It is impressive how quickly nature has returned to these areas...

[iconoclassist]

It's a tenacious and fiercely expansionist thing, nature. You wouldn't believe how many of these settlements we've had to move because of the danger they'd be in...It's one thing to explain that dryads are incredibly and violently territorial but it's another thing to try and keep an entire town from having their children stolen.

[...Given what he now knows about how elvish works and what it implies about elven culture, a lot of so-called 'elven raids' may make a whole lot more sense now.]