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"Oh, Sorry to disturb. I just wanted to talk about getting some more of that blackroot. I also had some questions... I've been having dreams... only, they seem much more than just dreams... TOO real."

Laren scratched the back of his neck, searching for the words to describe the way these visions feel.

Coming up empty handed, he changes the subject. "Where are you heading?"

Laren's face lights up like a child being offered a treat. "Well if I wouldn't be in the way...

Laren is excited! He practically skips as he walks.

"Yeah, I've been getting this blinding light, and then I see jumbled images... people, places... and then another blinding light... then it's gone and my head hurts. I wake, and the bed is wet... just sweat of course..."

"Oh... just shy of a month now."

"Well, when I left town, my father was in trouble with a woman named Crimson."

Laren scratches a stubbly cheek. Well, the other night I saw her in my dream reaching for me."

Laren thinks for a minute... "Hey, I also saw some rails in that dream, and then I saw them over at the cave we were in... that's funny, isn't it?"

"Well..." Laren says as Matt tries to remember Laren's wisdom score...

"Maybe the tracks were just that I was going to see them the next day... but I didn't see crimson. Maybe if I DIDN'T go into the cave with the tracks, Crimson would have found me?"

A sudden panic attack hits Laren "That would mean she's HERE!!" Laren begins to shake, looking from side to side...

Laren becomes less excited, but somewhat confused.

"No, I don't know any seers at all... What's mer...merc...mercurial, was it? Does that mean that maybe Crimson put those tracks th... wait, maybe it means that she's got a one-track-mind... or that she's on the right track! maybe she's TRACKING me!"

Laren pauses for a moment... "Well of course she's tracking me... I'd track me if my father did that to me too..." Laren stops talking as he realizes he just made a slip of the tongue that he probably shouldn't have. He glances sideways at Ashe to see if the man noticed.

Relieved that Ashe did not say anything about the slip, but sure he had heard it, Laren continues. "well, the cave was filled with Lizard men and kobolds. They were taking people prisoner. Actually we haven't finished exploring the cave, there seemed to still be a lot of it left."

Laren gasps! "You think she's IN the CAVE???" Laren's eye begins to twitch.

Laren tries to push his excitability to the side and think more clearly. Think outloud he says "Now, I saw the tracks first. Then I saw crimson, and she seemed to be reaching for me. The fact that she couldn't reach me, might me that... well, I'm out of reach. I can't think of anything to suggest that she yet knows where I am from the dream, but likewise there's nothing to suggest that she doesn't."

Laren looks at Ashe to see if he could read any expression the fellow had. "I've darked your thoughts long enough for one day, I think. What exactly are we looking for out here?"

OOC: this might be a good place to leave the thread off. I've gotten the point of what I wanted to happen across. I think the herb finding can go unspoken.

OOC: Yeah, I remember. I thought that I had said I saw them when going to the cave...?

This would happen after a good night's rest after the killing of the kobolds.

Laren knocks on Ashe's Door at about mid morning.

OOC Yes, that's right... sorry...

"W...Y... I ... I GUESS... But why to things explode like that??? How do we know one of us wont be next??? LAST thing I need right now is bits of my head all over the place!"

Laren stands there mouth closed and eyes wide. he looks one by one to everyone else.

finally, after a moment or two of silence, Laren snifs loudly, shakes his head and rubs his temples. He looks about the room for anything interesting so he doesn't have to look at anyone else. He clearly does not want the attention of the group anymore.

This would have been after the fight where the second rat this week exploded...

Laren's mouth drops and his eye's widen after the rat blows up.

"SEE?? You all see that?!? That's what happened last time!" Laren looks at Jarmok "What the hell are you doing to these things??? How do you make rats explode!?"

Laren looks at kit, "And what the hell is that buzzing?!?" Laren waits for some replies but gets none.

"You all SAW that, YES???"

Elberrin's respose is also pending a good read...