[h3]The Hunter's Dream[/h3]
While Ophelia ran as Farren had directed to discover what had happened to the doll, Gerlinde paused, momentarily looking at her hands with a confused expression, clenching and unclenching her fists experimentally. Before she could come to any useful conclusions, however, she immediately disregarded Farren's instructions and allowed herself to be distracted by the smoldering corpses of what had once been Messengers.
Torquil was rather torn between following Ophelia and staying with Farren as they split up once again. On one hand both seemed quite distressed... and indeed, Torquil himself felt rather uncomfortable after seeing Victor, though he was not sure he completely understood what it meant. Ultimately he decided to stay outside with Farren, lingering awkwardly near him in the hope that he might provide some vague kind of comfort to the man.

Up in the workshop the Shopkeeper did not seem to react to Ophelia's arrival at all, nor did the doll. With the Guidance Rune restored, however, she did hear the whispers once more: “[I]A presence... the influence of a Great One... destabilizes the Dream. Interrupts the connection to Flora. It is unsure if it can be 'fixed'... but removing the influence... may prevent further changes.[/I]”