A message continues to be spread at Fox Ridge

As it is Eirox's duty and responsibility to care of the lands and all that dwell on it he starts gathering animals to relocate them. In doing so he notices Mylanis and Leo with animals following them. "Leo, Mylanis, what are you doing here? He looks between them and the animals following. "Are you relocating these animals as well as me?"

"Nature's blessings brother Eirox. I thought you are in Cormanthor Forest. It is good to see another druid helping us in this dark time, the animals are in dang ..." His words get interrupted as he starts to groan in pain. Iwean's arrow can be seen planted in Leo's shoulder. Leo loses balance and falls on his knees.

Eirox gasped at the sight of the arrow in Leo's shoulder. He looked over to see Iwean with his bow still drawn. Eirox yells ahead to Mylanis "Mylanis wait its Leo come quick" with doing so Eirox slams his foot into the ground to call the earth spirit Sior as well as call on the earth spirit to shift into his earth elemental form and charged toward Iwean with anger in his eyes.

Leo looks at Mylanis and raises as healing magic begins to take effect. He breaks the arrow with his hands on half, and pulls each part out from his shoulder, then drops it on ground and turns towards Iwean, growling quality as his lips treble. He is being hold back by Mylanis' words now, but one of the animals that Leo guided out of the land jumps in between Leo and Iwean, growling at Iwean obviously disagreeing with him trying to harm its protector, or try to force the animal to stay here. Leo calls the animal back to continue with the group, not just because poor animal will probably have no chance against the hostile archer who wishes to kill forest walkers, but also because of what Mylanis said, but if Iwean attacks again, the animal will attack him back for him trying to kill its protectors. "Just like zhentarim, he tries to kill people who do not share same views as him, or enforce them upon others by force, blood and death."

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You are the one that's trying to make changes here. The forest is growing and getting better. The natural environment they are living in is what they need. But the animals are only second to the forest but needed by the forest and its dwellers. Just because you trained an animal to defend you doesn't mean it agrees with you. After all it knows where the easy food source. I hope you will soon see how your hatered is biasing your thoughts. You keep bringing up political agendas that have no bearing on nature. Nature cares little who rules the lands of people. I will abide by the combined circles decision not a lone member bent on genocide with no interest in nature. The fact you don't see any my work in this forest attributes to how little I'm affecting nature. Where you and your war with the Talonites and the Zhentarium have endangered the area far more than I have. *Thinks about Roan as he is about to find out if his life ends today. Hopes Roan will be able to eat after these fools ruin the land.*

"Changes happens yes. With threat knocking on the door we are not going to just sit and do nothing. Natural environment is what they are going to have, I can hardly call anything here natural with gnolls working with fiends and capturing tree spirits for sacrifices, and zhentarim marching their undead minions and infernal pact mages, this is hardly place for animals to live, this has nothing to do with politics, I could care less if it is zhentarim or gnoll or anyone who brings death upon this land, when it is in danger we will try to save its life from anyone, undead and fiends are simply enemy to nature and we are trying to save what we can. We are going to offer them what they lack here. Animals that agree can come and those that don't can stay, but I will not tolerate your blood thirst, you are from now no longer welcomed to grove for your wishes to deny animals opportunity to meet safer lands to live in peace and wish to force them to stay here by attacking us who help them. Your work is now well seen, this is how you effect it, by doing the same things zhentarim do, attack nature walkers who aid nature, it is you who chose a side now, and by attacking us you ally with them, Blackhound, and despite of all that we did not harm you, that is how much neutral we are, that is how we avoid direct confilcts in this war, no matter how many times banties try to enforce me to serve them or how many times defenders call me coward for not going against zhentarim despite of what they have done. So spare me the lecture about politics that you yourself did not learn." Leo controls his anger and while there is still hostility in his voice, he becomes calmed and continues his work one more time in peace.

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Not so far away from the group Maya, that usually wears almost nothing, is fighting a gnoll group with her friend white chicken Elda. Few of them, as always, chase her through the wood if they see her running through the Fox Ridge, but when she sees people nearby she does not want to risk their lives by bringing the gnolls to their location, and instead faces them in battle with marital combat that looks on something like muay thai undisciplined version of martial art, without weapons. As a gnoll scout attempts to stab her with short sword, she dodges and kicks the sword out of its hands with her own work of fists. The sword falls stabbed in the ground as she continues to punch the gnoll in face, dealing sonic, magical and electrical damage with her natural attacks. When the first gnoll falls, two more charge at Maya, each one from both sides. Maya jumps and hits gnoll in front of her with her knee in face, and then she grips the gnoll for its ears while she is still in air to pull herself up and sits on the gnoll's right shoulder. When she sits her long attractive legs catch the gnoll that was behind her for neck, and then she spins with her entire body in one side, holding both gnolls for head parts, making all three of them fall down in grass, raising dust above, but the gnolls end up with broken necks. Maya raises her head from the grass, her face is covered her long hair and she blows it with her breath away to have clear sight. She sees another gnoll charging at her, but this one was bigger with axe! She rolls in one side to avoid the axe and kicks the gnoll in stomach from laying position. Trained Chicken Elda helps Maya by pecking the gnoll in a foot and then running away, and while the gnoll was distracted by the chicken, Maya stumbles the gnoll on the ground and then she jumps in air and collapses from above on gnoll's neck with her elbow. When all the gnolls were finally dead, Maya picks up her battle friend chicken and walks towards Mylanis, Eirox, Leo and Iwean, cowered in dust which is rarely seen on Maya, ruined hair and with white feathers in her hair from the chicken, all result from the combat. "We are sorry we late, please forgive me, I would come sooner, but well ... you know ... it's all Victor's fault."

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