The forest hollow lies silver beneath the moon. Ancient roots twist through the earth, and a ruined shrine glimmers beyond a wide patch of open ground.
Lucien Draken reaches the hollow as torchlight flickers between the distant trunks. The hunters are close, their shadows sliding over the trees.
Raven braces herself against the ancient tree, one hand pressed to her blood-darkened robes. She raises her other arm toward the shrine.
Raven
There. Selûne's sanctuary. We must cross before the darkness finds us.
A horn call rolls through the forest. Several torches flare at once, hemming the hollow in from behind.
Raven
I can still walk, but not quickly. If you go alone, you may reach the shrine. If you stay, they reach us first.
At the far edge of the clearing, pale moonlight ignites the shrine's broken stones. Something within answers with a faint, star-shaped radiance.
The nearest torchbearers break through the trees, and Raven pushes away from the trunk, waiting for Lucien's choice.
✓ Quest Accepted
Bring Raven to Selûne's sanctuary
✓ Quest Accepted
Escape the hunters
“I pick her up and run towards the sanctuary”
SUCCESS (Good Strength, rolled +2)
Lucien Draken lifts Raven from the roots and carries her across the exposed clearing, his stride powerful despite the hunters closing behind.
Raven
The stones are answering you. Do not stop.
Therefore, the star-shaped radiance swells as Lucien Draken bears her over the sanctuary's broken threshold.
Raven
Set me beneath the moonstone. Quickly.
Lucien Draken carries Raven to the moonstone at the sanctuary's heart and lowers her safely against its ancient base.
Behind them, hunters spill into the clearing, but a curtain of silver fire rises between the sanctuary and the darkened trees.
Raven
You kept faith with me. Now tell me, will that ward hold them?
Quest Complete
Bring Raven to Selûne's sanctuary