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I guess my comfort zone is "eccentric side character."

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"Cross one sometime, then try to tell me people can't become trees." Cliver said as he followed Emmerling into the guild hall, figuring that this would be the only available place to find the materials the man needed. He struck by the interior of the place. It was the kind of building you hear about in stories, the forgotten manor home in the middle of the woods whose only inhabitants were the cackling witch, the grinning ghoul, or any number of haunts and monsters that would do little to deter young men looking to prove their bravery by spending a bone chilling night within. He spent a few nights in buildings that looked just like, if not worse than, this and it brought on a wave of nostalgia. Most of the time the rumors of hauntings were bunk, but sometimes you got lucky.

He strolled into Lilith's room and saw her struggling with the bed. "Here, let me help. Take one side." He said, grabbing it.
Cliver drops the last few feet to the bottom and walks over to the log laying in a pile of broken branches and pine needles. "Hey Emmerling, think this is enough for your sled?" He calls.
Cliver nodded at type and headed, set his pack on the ground, ruffled through it to find a harness and rope, and headed off to look over the treeline. There wasn't a lot of variety, but Emmerling had said that pine was fine, so he focused on trying to find a strong, young one. Finding one that looked good put the harness on, through the rope around it, adjusted his sling to be comfortable, and started his accent.

He placed one boot in front of the other, sliding the rope up the shaft as he went. He supposed he could just chop it down at the base, but he knew there were nymphs about. No reason to piss any of them off if he had the time to be careful. Up and up he went until he started to reach the branches, then he unhooked from the rope and grabbed hold of them to pull himself higher. Once he got a fair ways up he rest of a sturdy branch and unsheathed his ax, holding it just under the head. He looked up, took note of where the majority of the weight was on the tree top, felt the breeze, then tapped the trunk at an angle.

"TIMBER!" He shouted, as the entire head of the tree fell off and crashed into the ground far below. Satisfied, he rehooked himself to the tree and started making his was back down.
"What type and how much? I'll go cut what I can right now." Cliver said urgently, whipping out his ax. Magic. 450 years and being held up by magic. He wanted to find whoever thought "eh, good enough" about that whole situation and deck them.
Cliver was struck dumb by the sheer extent of the damage. He hadn't expected a palace, and was by no account a very picky man about where he laid his head, but this was beyond the pale. She'd been living here? By herself? In the middle of the wood!?

"How long has it been like this?" He asked.
Certainly can't complain. Kind of sleepy, but that's to be expected.
"Yeah, lead the way Lilith. I want to see this guild of yours."
"Speak of the devil." Cliver says as he comes up. "Nothing wrong with a long walk after breakfast, it's healthy."
"Hold on." Cliver said, stopping by the gate house for a few minutes and having a talk with the guard. He emerged with a pack filled with personal belonging he'd left there before going on the hunt, with instruction that it was to be sent as mail to St.Paul's Camp in the event that he didn't return.

"I haven't seen Elras. Maybe he decided to hang around? He wouldn't want for a job with that power of his."
"You absolute maniac..." he replies with wonder to Drek, trying to decide whether the man was pulling his leg or not, before Lilithe distracts him with a question.

"I meant what I said back there Lilith." He answered. "If you guy hadn't show up when you did I'd be dead. Besides which..." He scratches the back of his head, trying to find the right way to put this. Besides which, her story was ugly. He didn't have the details, but by and large he didn't need them. Once he'd found an ugly story it wasn't something he could just let go because, more often than not, there was a monster waiting at the end and monsters had to be fought. "I just want to help. I like you guys."

He looks over at Sarrai'a as she comes up, looking grimly at that man on her shoulder. Speaking of ugly stories...

"I think the best we can do is care for him and hope he wakes up."
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