The Forgotten Ways
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 8373
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"I honestly don't know," Lady Andrea Croix said as the other three
regarded her, "there's a lot that I'm unsure of. Fritha, my nursemaid only
taught me little charms. Folk magic. Much of what I've done recently I
didn't even know I knew how to do." "Please, Andrea. Just try," Astra, princess of Aquilaria pleaded, handing a stout, "Y" shaped piece of rowanwood to the young noblewoman. Andrea took the stick in her hands and her interest seemed to drift. Murky memories not even her own floated in the back of her mind. She pushed herself, trying to focus on one of them. She caught a fleeting image she thought was relegated only to her dreams, of a woman clad in a white robe, carving with a knife on a piece of wood exactly like the one she held. "I...I need a knife," Andrea said through her confusion. Quickly, Simon the Anchorite pressed a small hunting knife in the palm of her hand. Her hands moved in a flurry, carving the wood in quick, precise motions, producing symbols that seemed to come from a hazy, dreamlike memory. Her hands knew what they were doing, even if she herself didn't, as strange mystic runes began to form a mosaic pattern upon the smooth surface of the wood. Shavings flew, accumulating in a pile at her feet. She carved what, somehow, seemed to be the last cut, and handed the knife back to the hermit. In her hands was a finely crafted dowsing rod, intricately carved. She felt the power within it pulsing with warmth and vibration, like a faint heartbeat. Andrea felt a vague tugging towards the forest coming from the rod. It's finished...I think I know where we have to go," she said. One by one, the others simply nodded, not speaking, and followed as she walked forward, following the pull of the magic. They traveled most of the day before even seeing water, but as the sun began to set over the forest, they found their prize. The lake lay before her, ringed by willow trees and, in the shadows, what seemed to be innately glowing moss. It was the Azure Lake, at the heart of the Faerie Rath...
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