Log of Blue Wing

Contract: Return Nannade of Sturreland

Day 1: Accepted the contract today and set out. 20 Communion silver is a lot for such a simple task. Purple Paw also gave me 50 Communion copper just to deliver a letter. I won’t disappoint a colleague for that price. Set out from Myrskattnholm on my boat. Already know she’s most likely heading for the crater. Why wouldn’t she?

Day 2: Pushing my boat upstream through the river delta. Made some good distance today. If all the girl can do is travel on the roads or through the marsh, I’ll have caught up to her soon. Will let Skraar survey from above. Having an eagle as a familiar comes in handy.

Day 3: At a ferrymen’s camp met someone who saw the girl. Said she was heading dead north.

Day 4: Nothing of note, caught a big fish for supper, has to be one of my biggest so far. Smoked most of it during the night.

Day 5: Nothing of note.

Day 6: Nothing of note.

Day 7: Coming close to the end of the river delta now. Will have to abandon my boat. Will ask Spirits to conceal it for me as usual.

Day 8: Heading for the turtle eye's place of power. I just have to figure which island in the turtle's eye it currently is closest to. By the stars, I'd say the northernmost one.

Day 9: Nothing of note. Still heading for the turtle's eye. I am getting too old for this!

Day10: Was at the place of power. Spirits told me the crolachan girl was here too. I tried to contact the singers of the fuming lake, but wasn’t successful.

Day 11: This target is better at hiding her tracks than I thought, but she’s lagging. Is she taking time or perpetually lost? 20 Communion silver might have been just enough. Skraar does not see a fire every night.

Day 12: Nothing of note.

Day 13: Fishers today told me they had heard weird noises across the lakes five days ago. Asked villagers about it. They said they never heard it before and that it sounded “tormented and regretful”. Also said someone had been camping on an island there.

Day 14: I'm pretty sure the screams came from the girl. Some villagers saw her. A fisher claimed to have heard the screams from a certain island north of my position.

Day 15: Found the island in question. The girl was here. The ground had recently been stirred, there was a buried campfire and some patches of blood. On the other shore, I found logs tied together into a simple raft, had claw marks. She must have clung to it to cross the lake.

Day 16: The girl moves faster than I anticipated. She now comes into less marshy areas. That’s bad, I can’t catch up to her as easily there. She probably took ten days to make five days’ worth of distance in the marshes. Soon she’ll be at a normal pace again.

Day 17: It is almost as if I’m coming closer now. In the time it took for the messages to travel between Sturreland and Myrskettnholm, she should have made it out of the marshes without a problem, I'm still in luck no matter how I see it.

Day 18: Nothing of note. Skraar just spotted her! Far away, but he could see a medium and a spirit on their way out of the marshes. Apparently, they had just gotten up. That’s why Skraar never saw them before: she moved at night. How, I do not know, but she did! That means I can comb the area during day.

Day 19: Nothing of note.

Day 20: This morning, Skraar might have spotted her, saw how someone went into a ditch below bushes and didn’t come out. That must be her sleeping spot for the day. Will set up traps before engaging her. Hopefully, the letter from Purple Paw will make her compliant.