(M-IC) Quest for the Restoration

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Klara was silent for a while. It should not be her problem, should it be? She had already gone far out of her way, with others to help for getting the way for restoration, which she benefited from too. Yet this was her problem, as monsters she might be able to deal with were keeping those who would come and take her home from this confined place from even coming. Drat it all! Could she still do anything about that?

Meanwhile, Arapegol, Iperanton, Jaydeen, and Nasa, on the three urban camels, and Galvishar on the huge wolf that Gasha had transformed to, were leaving the closed up Quadick behind going along this road that led to it, and coming to the long road which it met, that they had gone far on previously. They were all watchful for the alien strangler rotmonsters which had the threatening tentacles, but none were right there, though some had gone on in the distance, there were also a couple of them the other way, near the Primal Forest from which they and any previous ones emerged. That was the direction Arapegol knew they should go towards, which he let the others know. Whoever was causing all the rotmonsters to come, and migrate out from there, would really have to be dealt with, that it would stop.

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Gasha spoke, after they silently observed all that they could all around themselves as they went on. "Arapegol, you can throw projectiles of fire at the monsters, can't you? Why wouldn't you have yet?"

Arapegol answered her, "I had doubted that fiery projectiles would have significant effect on them. Now I am sure I have been right. I think they might be immortal. They can be hurt with continuing a harmful attack on any of them. But then they just dissappear, being possibly transported instantly to a place in another realm, likely that being where they came from. We should use the exact same strategy that we have been, whether they are immortal or not, it gets rid of them probably from all our world."

Jaydeen said, "Well be ready, we have those ones to encounter before we even get to the Primal Forest."

Iperanton said, "We will not have the advantage of a higher place to work our strategy with them this time."

Jaydeen said, "We must work the strategy from yet a further distance away from them, that they would not have a chance to come at us and attack before we effectively get rid of them."

Gasha said, "They are moving this way faster now."

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Gasha, Galvishar, and the riders then took positions in a row facing those two that drew closer, seemingly gliding along the ground. When those tentacled rotmonsters were a little nearer, Jaydeen launched a half dozen arrows into each very quickly, and Gasha summoned another moonbeam cone over that area where they had just stopped, went they moved around and found the edge where they could leave the moonbeam cone, Arapegol again used the teleportation again to move these ones back into that area where they were affected more.

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Everything they did was with more coordination this time, though now the group was on the same level with the monsters and they had to keep acting at their ways of attack to keep those rotmonsters from getting any closer. Indeed, they again managed to make the alien creatures, showing behavior indicating pain as small flames appeared in places on their bodies, vanish from there one after the other. They saw this was an effective attack they could keep using.

Arapegol said, "I think it is certain that the wizard summoning them has his hold on the other side of the Primal Forest further from the road. We should make our way around that horrible forest, to reach the other side opposite to this one along the road." Arapegol indicated with his body for the urban camel he was again mounted on to turn from the road. The others then followed Arapegol on his urban camel away from the road, Iperanton on his, Jaydeen and Nasa on the one they rode together on, and Gasha and Galvishar on foot, keeping their distance from that edge of the Primal Forest, and being watchful.

Galvishar stumbled on something along that way. To his surprise, and the surprise of the others, there was a sound, a sound of a voice uttering something.

Galvishar exclaimed, "What's this? Oh my cosmic watchers!! It is a detached head! A small head that still speaks!!"

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The others on their mounts all stopped. Each looked around for anything approaching, and then when certain there was nothing around threatening to them they went a little closer to where Galvishar had stopped, where he pointed with his finger straight down in front of him, with a look of complete horror on his face, his eyes bulging out.

Arapegol asked, "What is it you found? You said a detached head, that speaks?" He looked carefully toward where Galvishar, who seemed to be no longer capable of answering verbally, pointed. There was a very unpleasantly colored round bundle there, but it did seem to have a face showing on it. And it was a face with sort of a familiar look. Arapagol looked, until he discerned movement from the object. He told the others also still mounted on the urban camels they rode, "You all better come look at this!"

The others came nearer still riding, Iperanton, and Jaydeen and Nasa the elfin still on their urban camel together.

Iperanton came, and just said, "Wow!"

Jaydeen and Nasa the elfin rode nearer, and then each made a strange noise right then when they saw the object clearly.

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There laying on its own not attached to anything was a head, a rather small head, looking kind of deformed and more like that of something not quite human, and colored in an ugly way. And its eyes and mouth still moved! Strange sounds came from it, and then the words heard, "Why must these fairdomten ones find me here this way?!"

Nasa then jumped down from the urban camel which she had been on with Jaydeen, to approach more closely.

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This detached head, for that is what it was, jibbered in words that some of which were understood and others gave no help to understanding. But this part was heard by those there, "Some team of forlorn losers to stumble their way over me after being left like this in forsaken empty wilderness for over a dozen days!!"

It was certainly not a human head, with its colors all wrong. It was alien. But Nasa quickly recognized it as one of her own possessions, lost for some time. And this thing would help her understand the others there, as they would soon realize. Nasa was now especially pleased.

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Nasa soon had the aware detached head that was her possession again with her, tied securely to not be lost, and was back again on the urban camel with Jaydeen to ride on further with the others. With this head that would speak every now and then, she could understand any of what the others were saying, when she instructed that head to give her the translation for her to understand. She would do that when Jaydeen said something to her too when understanding him was difficult though he meant for her to understand trying to use the elvish speech she knew the best that he could manage.

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Nasa did not say much after that, but the others riding along also on the urban camels saw that she was happier, something she had shown no evidence of before. It did not even seem to matter that they were going toward where there lives could be in greater danger.

They were riding along the northern side of where the Primal Forest reached, where there was a gap where few trees grew along this way of slightly higher elevation, and the edge of the less dense forest seen further on toward the north from there, that one reaching near Quadick where these riders had just come from.

Arapegol soon said, "We are getting closer to the side on the west away from the main road we were on. We must enter the forest on that side where we might find the hold we would search for that the wizard who summons the rotmonster beings would be working from."

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Jaydeen said, "I hope this was figured out right, and it is not a wild goon's chase."

Iperanton said, "It is a wizard's prophetic dream showing there is this wizard behind the appearing of more and more strangler rotmonsters from here. It follows that the wizard behind this would work at bringing them here from some hold that wizard already had here all along. Isn't that right, Arapegol?"

Arapegol said, "That is basically it. You and I are wizards, Iperanton, but we are just starting off. We would have no ability to summon one being after another from a realm beyond us. So we are against a wizard a lot mightier than we are. We need the active help of each with us. It is a shame this was left to us out of those who had been going with me, to be helpful."

They all on these mounts saw they were nearing the other end of the Primal Forest, facing the west.