While the party slept, Saull had a dream:

Dreaming in first person, you see a halfling woman, with long blonde hair braided into a crown. She has a staff in her hand, a short sword at her hip, and she is sad.. "I'm sorry, my dearest friend. I'm sorry to leave you here. But you will be saving the younglings, keeping them safe.... I will try to come back to you, to find another way."

Looking around, you see you're in a cave. It's roughly square, but naturally formed, one exit. There are notches carved in the three walls you see from where you stand. You look at the halfling more closely, and you see there is a book tied at her waist, with a stoppered vial embossed on the cover.

You settle back in the straw and blankets and your feet, and the dream ends.

When morning comes, Eira and Alrick stay back to sell the 4 extra spiders. The 4 remaining adventurers go back out of the caverns the way they come in - at the slippery spot in the cave, Sir Frog and Fer make it to the top of the slope, but Trank and Saul slip down. Sir Frog uses his tongue power to pull Saul to the top, but Trank is left behind to battle the 2 swarms of rats that attack him. After taking some minor damage, the rats are killed and Trank makes it up the slope. The group gets 5 rat parts from the battle, to be divided up later.

At the river crossing on the way back to town, the team once again sets up a rope to help pull themselves across, with Sir Frog wading across first to bring the rope across.

Back in town, they take the 5 spiders to Indy Falisiryn, Fungryl Druid. She explains that she will take a few hours to prepare the two packages that will need to be taken to two different sacred sites on opposite sides of the village. The perimeter will be secure from large beasts and magical incursion for one week once both fires are lit. Individual fires will only last 3 hours, however, so light the second in time.

While they wait for the fire packages to be ready, the group runs a few errands:

• They visit the mayor who lets them know that as a reward they have been given a free session in the kitchen at Barb's Bounty Broaches and Books.
• They go to The Wanderer's Hideaway, the only tavern where Trank is still allowed to visit, and have some lunch. While there they take a short rest.
• They visit the carpenter Halfwin, a Dragonborn, where Fer pays for a bridge to be built over the southern plover river on the way to the Plover Caves entrance. The bridge will take 5 days to build. While there, Fer also buys 2 2x4 planks of wood, 10 feet long, which he is now hauling around.

After this break, the group picks up the two small package from Indy and goes north to the first of the two sacred sites:

• First site - a sacred tree north of Elmore
• Second site - a circle of standing stones south of Elmore
• It takes approximately 2 hours to walk between the two sites, all being well

On their way to the sacred tree north of Elmore, they have to cross a stream. Fer puts down the planks and the team successfully crosses the stream. As well, they run into a bear on a failed survival check. Sir Frog spends 1 hope and successfully lands the final blow.

On reaching the tree, the group decided to divide up the food options, and hold for the next session to continue on.

Food divided up:

• Mike - Rat - Salty secretion of unusual texture
• Phillip - Rat - and eye that smells really good and sweet
• Adam - Rat - translucent marrow that tastes sweet
• Adam - Rat - tongue emitting a sour gas
• Phillip - A tender tongue that tastes salty
• Adam - Bear foot with a pungent smell
• Mike - Tender savoury bear flesh