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Episode 7: On the Scent

Your footsteps led you down from the fireworks and goat-protected walls of Ulbid's observatory, where he keeps an eye on the magical happenings of the Stormwrack, but also on travelings of the road (the banner of the king headed south, just as Casimir Gavendale (that worm!) heads north! That sonovabitch! You killed our friend and he was your friend! That's the worst kind of killing my friend!). Cyd made his way through the forest, but on foot versus Casimir's carriages (and through the dense forest against Casimir traveling on the King's Road). You have to wonder if Cyd (even if he makes it out of the Dahapshanee Wood) won't have a trap waiting for him on the other end of the forest (and indeed, it was that premonition within a crystal that Thimble saw).
You made your way to Hawthorn's Glade (found at the edge by Hawthorn herself and some of her glade's finest warriors). You were saved in the nick of time by Wicander Halovar's unlikely summoning of the light. And you made an impression on Hawthorn. You made more than an impression on Shuffa (a Shambling Mound, who appears to, with no central nervous system, to still be possessed of a religious conviction in your sacredness).
You saw the glade of faeries that have fled in danger (and in some cases, it seems, persecution, perhaps even at the hands of the Candescent Creed, if that grasshopper fae can be believed).
You also met Sallow (a hag who betrayed the secrecy of the glade) to tell you that yes, Cyd not only was here, but had been sent to his death at the Wraith's Tree. A terrible plan, but one that the fae had made to keep their glade safe (by feeding those mortals that had found their glade to the wraith) such that more undead would patrol the woods at night and keep people far from this place.
You made quick work of the wraith animated within the tree and even sending it back to the underworld with a Divine Smite. The tree began to summon it back before Thimble could douse it in Kattigan's oil and set it alight.
As the zombies disanimate all around you, it is to this moment that we return as fire fills the forest around you. Flickering fire as the tree goes up. It is bright as day here in the dark forest. This tree sputters, and though you do not actually believe it to be fundamentally supernatural, the oil of the dead tree pops and screams as the wood splits in the flame. The steam escapes and hisses with these loud, shrill cries. As you are surrounded by (in Tyranny's case, a kind of comforting) hellfire, looking around, seeing the most freshly dead are indeed closest to the tree, you can breathe a sigh of relief that Cyd's body is nowhere to be found.