#dreaming

And the caps storm past, four looking for a fifth, viscous, and hungry and angry and... desperate.

Time to listen and get more details - a sibling to the female. Can Zara see them yet?

Nightmares they be, but she can tell that last... they are missing one they care for. She knows the feeling. The only female cap must be the sister, of course. They are like mongol warriors mixed with a biker gang.

...Three feathers and a rock. She follows the corby at a safe distance.

And the corbies move up and down... searching, cursing.

And Zara sees it, thin, a tightrope of a side trod

three feathers embedded to show it

She picks up a rock and lobs it at the thin trod.

It bounces...

but earl looks baffled, "what are you doing?" He doesn't see the trod?

"Don't you see it?"

"No.." He admits..then quiets as one Redcap tilts his head

"I heard something.." The cap says and looks around "Brun? That you?"

"No you idiot, it's a troll.."

That last voice from down the trod.. Dangling helplessly is a redcap.. but no one sees him

It must be related to chicanery magics, for sluagh senses are keen against such when other eyes fail

"He is in bad shape..." She frowns, and kens for what might be hiding the dangling cap.

Yes, an illusion like a wall... a cruel spell cast by the chasm which, when the cap finally falls.. he will feed it. The wind there is part of this beast

She probes at the spell... perhaps she can alter it?

Yes. .yehs she might be able to counterspell or nickname it faulty

In this case, the counter seems wise.... clever fingers pull at the glamour, working to unknit their weave...

And Pop

"Damn it sis, I'm FUCKING HERE!" A wind

and the others turn.. "Who's the sluagh?"

And zara realizes the glamour she popped has sprinkled her like glitter..

she's visible

"Oh, hell."

Earl appears near her "You're welcome. We found your brother"

The female cap stops in confusion, but says "Brun? You okay?"

"Does it look like I'm okay? I'm about to slip here..this 'trod' is too thin. You'd have to be a tight rope walker. And flying won't work"

"Earl, canst thou hold him? Hop him?"

"I think he has to stay in contact with the trod or he's whisked away.. even for a second"

She wrinkles her nose.

The female cap snarls and grabs the side trod and looks ready to go across

Brun says "Sis you're too fat for this! You'll drop us both!"

A snarl "You're my brother.."

"Aye, and we'll figure this out."

"Any of you able to elder form?"

Head shakes

"Feh."

Earl says "Ok....an idea. A chain? One of us on the solid trod, then the rest are also protected sort of?"

"So you can set us up and rob us blind?" One the caps says distrustful

Zara rolls her eyes. "He's a troll."

"And I found your Brun-boy."

"She's not wrong.." The girl says "I'm Brunna..yeah yeah... I know. You look scrawny.. you want to be at the far end of the grab?"

"I've not the strength to pull him... but I can weave you with good fortune."

"Hit me up" Brunna says

"Bruna, you sure about this?" Brun says "I don't want you dying trying to get me"

'SHADDUP" She yells at her brother then looks to Zara

She shrugs. "I have a brother, too." The sluagh approaches the redcap, and reaches out to touch the woman's forehead, hands and feet - murmuring a word of blessing with each.