"No, no, I-- of course I-- I'm not going to let people die if I can save them."

"I do honestly appreciate it. We should start looking for Halsin and Karlach soon."

"Yeah. Let's go. --Wyll, Gale is carrying a githyanki relic. Lae'zel wants to return it to her people, Shadowheart wants it for-- reasons. Keep an eye out for them trying to kill each other or Gale."

"... this is why you were bribing people not to murder each other?"

"Astarion also tried to kill me twice. It's been an exciting two days."

????? "I think it has been for all of us."

He hates doing this. It makes him feel like a traitor. Probably because he is.

"If it comes down to it-- make sure Lae'zel gets the relic and not Shadowheart. I can't tell you why without breaking confidences."

He understands confidences and things that are important but that you can't say. "I will assume it's because she is githyanki, and ask no more." 

All right let's go head in a direction and rescue a druid!

The party gathers, and heads north west-ish towards where the goblins camp is meant to be. 

Things that can be seen on the road north west:

- gee, that's a lot of dead bodies

- a darling little tea house by a river

- the church of Tyr they saw on that first day. There seems to be... steam? rising from the creek next to it?

- an abandoned village with a windmill

- smoke rising in the distance. It looks like there's a building on fire. 

Before they get to any of those things he's going to talk to his party.

"Any of you guys have weird dreams last night?"

"With an armoured woman?" 

"...maybe I shouldn't be surprised we all had those." 

"What did she tell you guys to do?"

Lae'zel, Gale and Astarion were told to consume tadpoles to gain powers they could use against their enemies.

Wyll, like Cayden, was told to protect them.

Everyone got told they were being protected and that there was some greater battle the Dream Guardian was fighting.

She(?) did not give any name other than "the Dream Guardian."

"And no one's heard of the Dream Guardian?"

"I haven't heard of her,  certainly. There are definitely entities that can enter dreams, but multiple dreams at once with minor variations is quite unusual."

"We need a song-sorcerer. A song-sorcerer would know."

"A healer and a song-sorceror. We're getting quite the list."

"Maybe purple floppy hat guy in the Grove--oh, what's his name-- maybe Volo would know."

"Let's hope so."

He's going to stop by the dead bodies because he promised Zevlar he would keep an eye out for things that kill tieflings.

This person is human, and seems to have died from blunt force trauma.

A tadpole wriggles out of his ear, and squirms towards the party hopefully.

Aaaaa!

He kicks the tadpole away.

True soul?

The tadpole was never meant to live outside a pool or a brain. It is having a visibly bad time in the dirt.

Lae'zel flinches from the voice in her head.