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Unexpected letter



Sunlight goes through the woods of Trollshaws.It's pretty warm for this time of year.Silence. Some people will tell that it looks creepy. The bear is walking slowly sniffing around. And few meters behind him,Tuwa, oldie weared in white. In one moment he stops near bush to pick up some wildberries who just growed few days ago. Then, a croaking. Deep croacking up them. Bear stops too and looks up the sky. That was a big raven with long peck.It looked creepy for Tuwa.It was not a Poe,his black raven friend.That was a unfamiliar one. Tuwa arrows his eyes and follows a raven who flies down near him on the branch of one wood,after few circles flied around. Then Tuwa spots a letter tied on raven's left leg. Tuwa was amazed by that. Who would writte him when he is in the middle of the forest,where animals and trolls rules. Tuwa tries to recognize a raven but without success. He just takes a letter and opens it quickly. It was written in common languague on old paper tiered up in the corner. Handwritte is pretty bad and the hand of writter probably shakes a lot when he/she wrote it. Beast master reads it quickly and then he just drops letter on the ground and he looks like he saw a ghoust.Raven flies away. After few steps walked around Tuwa picks it up again. Letter said:

''Son, time is going so quickly. But i knew that moment will come once.Please leave everything you do and come to me.I have need to tell you something important. For a years i didn't go out from this place. Find me in cave between a two hills,where grass and ice are touching and where two black goats are fighting. Look at the east,under the big rock. There is path. Please be quick.''

The letter was unsigned but Tuwa knows who wrote it. It is his grandfather,the great sage, his teacher. Tuwa kneels before his bear who looks at him confused. Tuwa was short:''Iru we must leave a woods.'' After a minute-two Tuwa takes his staff and goes,walking a faster then usual. Iru follows him.Walking,Tuwa heads to the south and after few days he left a Trollshaws and steps into the lands of Eregion.Old man with letter in one and staff in another hand and bear,friends and companions. Like a two lost warriors.None is around. Just them.