#rivervale_lodge

has renamed the channel from "rivervale" to "rivervale_lodge"

set the channel topic: Rivervale Lodge and surrounding woods

"I'm not HIGH," Siv says "Sides, I don't get high on drugs, I get high on flying ships like the Dreaming intended, and it would work. I'm sure of it..if I could just close in fast before it could breathe... "

And yes, Stormwake looks at Brekke as if to say 'are you getting all this?'

"Before what could breathe?" Brekke asks loudly enough for them to hear her as she approaches the voices.

Siv nearly jumps out of her skin "how... mom? You're outside? Of course you are. Mother, we have a guest escorted by Squire Colton what brings important news."

Brekke nods to Colton, then addresses the new arrival. "I am Brekke, Chieftain of Rivervale Lodge. Be welcome here. I see you have met my daughter, Siv."

The figure is a strawberry blonde Clurichaun woman. She looks tired and sweaty, but unharmed, which is more than can be said for Colton and Siv. Colton's glass arm has flecks of blood upon it, and the shoulder above that arm a bandanged wound. Siv is bandaged as well, about her thigh, and a scratch expands out from that thigh down her left leg, a shallow cut to be sure. The clurichaun bows, "And glad I am that we did. SOme of the trods are damaged by the passing of the threat that i came to tell you of. Were it not for Squire Colton and your daughter I'd have taken much longer to find this place as the directions I had are temproarily complicated. It's an honor to meet you, Chieftain. I bring you terrible tidings."

"I am Seana. And I bear news of the Giantbane's returning"

Brekke sees the wounds, and Siv might recognize the brief note of alarm, but all she says is, "Is it worth the glamour to heal you, daughter? It sounds as if you are planning a suicide mission." Eyebrow.

"Suicide is a path of desperate escape, mother, this would be a tactical sacrifice and a step towards greater victory" Her daughter's jaw gets a stubborn tilt, even as, damn it, a slight purple blush colors her cheeks, "As I was trying to explain to our visitor."

"Last resort, only," she says firmly. Then she looks to Seana. "Tell me more as I heal them."

"Of course, Chieftain. Do you know the name Skallstryke ?" She says "For it is he who has ripped from the Deep Dreaming like a hurricane through woodland."

Brekke was about to begin a bunk, but the name stops her. She turns and stares at the clurichaun as she processes the memories.

Even if Brekke did not know the name, she would translate it... The Breaker of Skulls would be a close Norweigan twist... but the name means much more than that. There are mentions in the books Frank has kept. The Lodge Destroyer, the Titan's End. And... her own memories stir...

"mom?" Siv says

Brekke's eyes have glazed as the memory, long forgotten (or denied), comes back with the clarity of the present. She takes a step back, her hand reaching for something to steady against, a tree or fence post. Siv would see that her mother has visibly paled.

Seana says with understatement that would do a troll proud "I see that you do. I am sorry, Chieftain. Tis said he is almost a cultural memory for many trolls "

Siv moves to her mother's side, allowing something besides a tree to lean against.

"First time I heard the name," Colton admits, "I got a shiver up my spine."

Her jaw clenched, she swallows tightly, and looks down at Siv, her brow furrowed. Finally she nods. "I remember." Rough voice. "How long do we have?" she asks the clurichaun.

"That is the good news, if one can be said... a Mountain I told cast omens...good fate reader that one, and he believes that that dragon will claim one of the great hold in Three New Moons. You see, the creature is one of the DEEP Dreaming... coming to this world. It must..transition... though it will be no weaker for that. The Mountain believes this delay is a gift from the Dreaming, perhaps Dana herself...but which great lodge shall fall I do not know." She says it as if it is a given, "But at least you can prepare for egress if need be."

Brekke thinks a long moment, then nods grimly. "We can...prepare." She looks back toward the Lodge, to see if Frank is approaching. He was to meet her at the footbridge. "Which Mountain have you spoken to, Seana?"

As if summoned by her thoughts, Frank appears, walking toward them.

Brekke's expression should sound all the alarms for Frank.

"I have not.." Seana explains.

He moves faster, eyes scanning the area for danger. Reaching them he takes Brekke's hand and gathers Siv closer. "What is it?"

"PRepare for EGRESS?" SIv looks offended, "Wer'e not running"

"Tell him, Seana," she says, her voice carefully controlled. "He is our Mountain, Frank. Tell him." She squeezes his hand briefly, but then pulls away to work quietly on healing Siv and Colton as Seana speaks.

Seana tellls Frank "Skallstryke is awake and hungry... the lodge buster travels to the autumn world. Everytime he does that, a lodge falls"

Brekke gets a hand-squeeze before she goes, and Siv still has his arm around her. He turns his attention to Seana.

Frank knows the legends. Better than any here. He studies, he reads, and he too has had his lives.

As Seana explains, Frank smells burning wood, hears echoes of screams, and feels a sharp pain in his left arm, an echo of a dismemberment he must have gone through in a past life ,,, "And we know not which great lodge it comes for," Seana says "But the Dreaming has had trods up ended, whole regions destroyed or altered. In three new moons, it will be ready, attuned, to break out"

Frank looks over at Brekke. "I can get Olgar, or takes Seana to him. Are we going to the Farmhold?"

"We're not running" Siv says even as her leg heals thanks to her mom.

"We have until Samhain to devise a strategy. Three new moons." She glances over at the boathouse, towards the longship within...then back to Frank. "We must tell Mountain Emmit, yes. The other matter...." She shakes her head. Apparently whatever the other matter is does not seem all that important by comparison.

"Samhain....." He frowns, communicating silently with Brekke.

Siv frowns

Colton says "Thank you for the healing, Chieftain."

"Uhm we actually met hte DeBukes first" Colton adds

Siv nods "They know. I met with the Mountain.. he asked if I had met Seana yet"

Brekke nods distractedly to Colton regarding the healing, then gives Seana a confused look. "You said you did not speak to a Mountain....?"

"I thought you meant your husband, Lady. Forgive an Irish lasses confusion but the titles are one for each lodge aye?"

Siv adds "Mountain Emmit is kind of busy with another project asides"

A puff of grim amusement. "So the Farmhold knows." He glances at Brekke "When I was at the Lodge I did call them to say we were coming, but I can call them back. What would you like to do?"

"Jessica needs to know. Three lodges, Frank."

"Tell me where it is and I will deliver the message," Seana says "It is the task I have taken upon myself"

"There are more than three Lodges in Concordia, Brekke. Mist's Edge, for one. Renaissance isn't a Lodge." Frank points out. "Don't think I'm not going to call her but....."