>>6339470You begin to fall into a deep sleep. For a time, there is no sensation. No aromas. Nothing to see. Slowly, like light creeping through a thick mist, you hear a voice calling your name. The sound starts as a dull rumble, but eventually becomes loud enough to fill your ear.
"No-Egg... No-Egg!"
Your vision returns to you, and you find yourself at the bottom of a dark hole. Stone surrounds you, and you are submerged up to your waist in water. You cannot tell if you are still asleep or awake...
The voice echoes throughout the deep pit you are in. You finally find your voice and make a response. "Hello? Where am I? Who are you?"
"You may call me Sploosh. I am the spirit of the sacred well hidden in the forest. I have heard the fervent cries of your children." The water around you sloshes a bit.
You almost laugh. "They're not MY children."
"I speak to you now because my well has become tainted. My waters are no longer pure. There is a sinner who has violated my shrine and perverts my power. Please, free me from their trap so I may be purified and my power restored..."
"What must I do to release you from the hold of this foe?" Stepping back and forth in the water a little, you rub your forehead. This is starting to become more complicated than you anticipated.
"Smite them while they are still weak. Please free me, or their corruption will spread throughout the land."
You wake up with your eyes slowly creaking open to take in the breaking dawn. The fire is a pile of smoldering ashes. Thankfully, the two young ones are still sleeping, cuddled next to one another. It seems you now have an answer to the mystery of the toothed plants. But, do you really have the strength to defeat the individual that is performing blasphemies against nature? You lay down on the ground, trying to piece together your thoughts.
>Cut your losses and ditch the kids. This was never your battle to begin with.>Take the young humans home. It's far to dangerous to continue with them. You and your brother will slay the well-poisoner.>Continue on to the shrine with the young humans. This is their fight too.>Go into town and see if you can recruit any help. 