15: A Midwinter Dream

It is unclear whether the events that would have been described in this chapter actually happened, or whether they were some sort of weirdroot-fuelled group hallucination that took place several days after the events were witnessed, that is to say a couple of months before the time the events were depicting but witnessed several days before the drugs that fuelled the hallucination were ingested. It is very confusing.

After giving it some thought, I have concluded that this could have been a holy vision sent by Shallya or a dark vision sent by more nefarious powers in order to trick me. Note that at this time I was infected with Ratte Fever and the Dark God of disease could have been playing on my mind. In any case, I felt distant and isolated. I am reminded of my dooming, that keeping secrets is not safe for me, but I know better than to put on paper that which may be interpreted as a message from the Dark Gods.

I plan to research the matter in more depth if I ever have access to the requisite books, but it was certainly a strange occurrence and if it were shared by my fellow travellers, which I suspect it was, we never spoke of it again.