Dearest friends, and anyone else who happens to be reading this,
It strikes me with an uncomfortable feeling that I am incapable of being able to describe at this current point in time due to certain circumstances to be contacting you all this way. I have some…family matters…that need attending to, despite advice from my brothers to leave well enough alone. Hopefully I survive and am able to bring whatever news I find to you all in person, but for now, I must say goodbye to Elmerton. For how long, I do not know, but I will try with everything I have left at the end of this journey to make it back to the only place I have left to really call home. I will miss each and every one of you. Yes, ALL of you, no exceptions, but there are answers I need to find, and looking for them while residing in Elmerton will only put all of you in harm’s way.
Anyway, on to more pressing issues that may be of some concern to all of you. I recently spent some time this past summer taking a trip to the Nightmare Wood, or, at least what is left of it. It is the place Lex, myself, and the rest of our family called home for several years before we moved on to other things. While looking for information about this particular family issue I am dealing with, I came across the old village that once stood there. The paths were overgrown, and I saw smoke billowing from the treetops, so I made haste to see what was going on.
What once was the village that stood down the trail from my childhood home was now a scene of desolation and ruin. All but one building had been totally burnt and destroyed. As I walked further into the clearing, I noticed a pit piled high with burnt, skeletal remains, I assume the families of the villagers I once encountered as a child.
On the porch of the single, unscathed building was a figure sitting on a rocking chair. I am not quite sure who or what he or she may have been, for they were horribly burnt and disfigured. This person warned me that I should take my leave, as a plague had swept through the place. With some further questioning, I was told that the village was destroyed in retribution for crimes the people committed while whoever this was was away, a lightning storm caused a fire that rampaged through the town and killed everyone else.
I am not exactly sure if this information is pertinent to anything else anyone has heard, but I figured I may as well share it while I am still able to.
Sorry for taking so long to reach out to you all, apparently someone thought it would be a fun idea to teach his construct to develop a taste for parchment, and this is the third time I have had to pen this.
Best of luck and all that other emotional silliness,
-Sevn
