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Elbio Hare and Alts

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Registered: 2019-06-22

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Walk With Me Friend-GUOSIM LOG

Vilfred was in a good mood, this morning was a fairly good morning as he checked the log boats and smiled “Yes...just need the one fixed and we are all set”

Berwin sighs “Of course...can't it wait till breakfast least?”

Xander was sitting by the river quietly, sort of staring at the river in thought.

Vilfred nods “Yes...food does a beast good…”He looks to Xander and nods to the Berwin “I..may be late so eta without me”

Berwin throws his paws into the air and just stormed off muttering to himself.

Xander half paid attention to the shrews this morning as he looked at the water and wipes some tears away.

Mavis wanders over and then steps back, she then speaks”I didn't do it...I just got hee.”

Velfred walks over to Xander and studies him, he answer Mavis “This I am knowing…”He goes to where he can face the badger “Xander?”

Xander looks at the Log-A-Log  and frowns “I’m..sorry..I..I was just ...had a bad dream and then got to thinking why and then how it seemed so real , but part of it was real..my daughter did..did die and I was..holding her..I failed her..” He gets a memory back and it’s one right before hs fight of all things with the slaver group.

Mavis frowns but decides not to ask as she looks at Log-A-Log unsure what to do.”

Vilfred frowns, he is not good at comforting crying beasts, now Allea..she was...He frowns, oh she was great at that comfort stuff...but he may know, in a way, what he is going through”Xander….a favor?”

Xander lets some tears fall “Wot...I don't want to do anything today..I just fail somehow and the one time you needed help...Keldorn saved you...Keldorn..why cause I can't swim, wot kind of leader am I...what ..kind”

Mavis speaks “Well few badgers like...swim right?”

Vilfred sighs, “You only..fail if don’t...try if give up….”He goes to pull on the badger’s cloak “Walk with me...I show you something...Mavis can come as well.”

Xander sighs as he stands “Alright”He goes to quietly follow the shrews, in fact it's likely a quiet walk on his part.

Mavis just follows her leader.

The walk is about  a little under half a day, they are close to the St. Nihms church….an old campsite with weeds, a tall sort of lookout hill of dirt and a burnt hollowed log, bits of cloth and...graves.

Vilfred walks up to one tracing the name…”Hey...Allea….”He looks at the others and turns to Xander” I..felt like..I failed when this happen..I was to be Log-A-Log..sort of like a co leader in way when..when “He frowns “When Allea was alive...I felt so unsure of this area...thought I seemed something and we should look into it...no I worry she said and  she was Log-A-Log..not I…”

Mavis frowns, she remembers that night, a noise...seeing a rat and hearing the famous LogaLog call and seeing the rat run off, she followed to then see Log-A-Log at the time..with an arrow buried in their chest, barely alive.

Xander looks around and frowns”But….you likely had little or no..warning”

Vilfred feels tears now and looks at the badger”I was the first one out….seen the arrow hit and caught her when she fell from the lookout mound...she died within moments and I remember laying her down and the rest sort of bad blur”He sighs “Badgers are not only beast whom can go into the bloodwrath….”

Xander frowns, he doesn't remember the fight with the Blackrose slavers, he does remember Northstar….tripping after a dagger was in her arm, how the dibbun yanked it out and clinged onto him, how everything seemed ok..then...her dying in his arms. The rest he only knows from what Vojin and Ferro had said..how he handed his daughter off to Ferro, sliced off a vermin head..killed 10 others and how the rest ran in total panic, yeah Vojin killed a couple  and the rest go away, he had decided to not hunt them down, sides he had no clue a direction and he had his wife to comfort and to  gain forgiveness from, he had gained it but he still felt...so very lost and..”But I ..failed...I could of gotten to her faster or  told..told Vokin to freaking shoot the cat…”

Mavis sits on a log and folds her arms in her lap.

Vilfred wipes away his own tears and walks over to Xander “ You did not fail...I did not fail, but seems first words from a leaders mouth ...yes? But then ask this...would faster of helped? Did you know that would happen? Can you be one place 24/7….a leader is not 100 perfect and a winner all de time, things happen..bad things, good things, in between things and we remember and...learn from them and yes it is..sad”He sighs “I may not know of how lost of child feels...but I do know how lost of  older sister feels..both...are family and lost of family is more painful at times than lost of friends, which lost as well….we did not know ambush would happen...you did not know..could not know of vermin ambushing you and daughter...our look at shrew was shot with an arrow as well...4 vermin slipped into one of two large tents we had...killed 10 before we knew what was happening...somehow Log-a-Log Allea woke up and ran to lookout mound and sounded alarm..she woke others and me before she...before she was slain...I know how feels lose someone close as she took last breath while I held her.”

Xander frowns he looks at the ground, tears fall, he nods in understanding.”It’s important to move on….I still have a lot of my last 4-5 seasons all ...blurry I guess, some slightly clearer things are right before the fight with the slavers…”

Mavis is quiet and nods to Log-A-Log “Your a good leader Log-A-LOg and we are glad to have you and I am sure the badger….ummm Xander was it...is good leader for his group, whatever that is..its the the long patrol is it?”

Xander chuckles “No...Thats Lord Ciocan..8.5 foot tall badger...I am leader of the Mossflower Defenders, it's a small group...couple allys in it also, one is a Long Patrol hare..another is a head warrior at an abbey called Willlowbark”

Vilfred listens as he looks around, a few quiet moments but he does find something in the dirt he thought lost, his family crest locket as a smile forms and he tucks it into a pocket “Let us head back to camp before sun sets….is good walk to camp from here”

Mavis stands and stretches “Walking is good, can't go everywhere in the rivers and streams after all….wonder how interesting the sea is”

Xander sighs, but a small smile he can remember the good and not the bad, he can...move on as he walks along” The sea is not that great...I mean it's ok, but not in a strom”

Vilfred nods “Storms are not always good ...weather meaning real storm or sometimes life troubles is called...storm.”He smiles at a thought “Once had said to me a storm in life may seem ...coming at worst times...but it washes away the bad and leaves the good...yes sometimes it may do a little damage but  can repair easily or go better path if one that seemed easy...was not so easy after all”

Mavis stays with the group of course till they get to camp, on the way to camp she listens quietly to them talking

Xander tilts his head as he listens, he also stays alert for any dangers, troubles along the way back..so far...none.”So ...ok that sounds deep but can meditate on it” A small smile, he is feeling a little better

Vilfred smiles , there will be no trouble  on the way back...the only trouble, and it's not much of one, they have on the way back is getting stuck in some downpour of rain, but it passed rather quickly and they got the rest of the way to camp slightly after dinner time.

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