Luckily for everyone involved, she has struck on the most willing victim in all of Riftwatch.
Wysteria had not been present at the rift that had struck the woman with the shard prior to its closure. She'd been delayed, her let horse having thrown a shoe, and only arrives to join the assembly only after a majority of the shenanigans have shenaniganed and camp has been pitched. They will have to leave this place in the morning—ride back to the rendezvous points where they're to meet the griffon riders who had been dispatched to scout the region for other rifts and suspicious characters—, but for now:
Sat on a log across the paltry campfire in the watery daylight, Wysteria stirs the contents of the pot between them with a long metal spoon. The soup has needed considerable thinning to deal with the two extra mouths they've acquired—so much so that even Wysteria, with her less than able culinary skills, can be trusted to monitor its progress. It's hard to burn what is largely water.
"Well, not here specifically. But it demands you stay in close contact with other anchor bearers, otherwise the shard will begin to assault the body in which it's buried. I've never heard of anyone dying from it, but that is the theory. And certainly I myself have been slightly inconvenienced by some pain after a few weeks from the Gallows. Happily, we will return there shortly enough so I doubt you're likely to to feel any of the ill effects any time soon."
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Wysteria had not been present at the rift that had struck the woman with the shard prior to its closure. She'd been delayed, her let horse having thrown a shoe, and only arrives to join the assembly only after a majority of the shenanigans have shenaniganed and camp has been pitched. They will have to leave this place in the morning—ride back to the rendezvous points where they're to meet the griffon riders who had been dispatched to scout the region for other rifts and suspicious characters—, but for now:
Sat on a log across the paltry campfire in the watery daylight, Wysteria stirs the contents of the pot between them with a long metal spoon. The soup has needed considerable thinning to deal with the two extra mouths they've acquired—so much so that even Wysteria, with her less than able culinary skills, can be trusted to monitor its progress. It's hard to burn what is largely water.
"Well, not here specifically. But it demands you stay in close contact with other anchor bearers, otherwise the shard will begin to assault the body in which it's buried. I've never heard of anyone dying from it, but that is the theory. And certainly I myself have been slightly inconvenienced by some pain after a few weeks from the Gallows. Happily, we will return there shortly enough so I doubt you're likely to to feel any of the ill effects any time soon."