Ashram Drowsong

Ashram smiled, he was satisfied indeed, he watched Sivamets Group approaching, he nearly ran out of time, but managed to do it, quickly he moved with the shadows again, he knew how to do it, The Tree was indeed special, people had died on this tree, even, if someone else used the tree, now the tree was tainted with Evil, tool or not, Ashram did what he wanted to do. Maybe they would see the place he cut open the Tree to extract its Tree gum, an entire bottle, he took his time to take some of the tainted trees Seeds, to put them into the bottle as well, wonderful, healthy and strong seeds indeed, filled with the trees essence "before" any cleansing would be done, and some of the trees Roots, he made sure to cut some of the strong roots, then he had no time anymore. It was done, now they can do as they want, clean the place from evil and, if there are someone behind this, kill or catch him or her or well, it, a part of the curse and its power is given to its seeds, Ashram knew exactly of the benefits to examine these tainted Seeds and the tree gum and the Roots. His silver eyes watched them in the distant from the shadows of the village buildings, he heared Siva speaking to Kailisto via the Linkpearl, he made sure the voices in the pearl are just a whisper, yes, Kailisto, he remembered what she told him, he smirked and decided to stay for a bit, maybe there was more to gather in this village before sivamets group would cleanse all the evil and tainted objects. Slowly he turned then, he got all he could from the Tree, now he was thinking, a Tainted tree, death poeople, unholy indeed, but he did not hear at all that the priest of the villages church did try anything to help, after all, every village has a church with a priest who tries to protect his herd, for now that would be the place Ashram would go to, and do some searching, maybe the holy place holds some unholy things indeed. He smiled lightly as he saw a young woman, trying to pickpocket people entering the Inn. He offered her some coin, and talked to her, surely the group of adventurers would draw attention, the villagers for sure would come to see what they do, the girl agreed to go too and observe what sivamets group is doing, the girl would do as he told her, to be his ears and eyes for now, he gave her one of his own Linkpearls, special made for situations like this, useful indeed, with the promise of coin he left the girl, to investigate the church and the priests quarters there, he knew he could trust the girl, he saw it in her eyes, she gave her word and would do as he told her.

He was not using the road like they did, they fear the darkness in the woods, for him, there was no reason to fear it, instead he became one with the darkness, moving with with the shadows, quick and light steps, in his mind Ashrams Goal was to get to this Tree first, before they do, they can do theyre investigations, they can help the people and lift this curse or whatever is behind this mystery, the people can praise them as heros afterwards, Ashram did not care for that anyways. Something was wrong with this place, this tree, Magic or some kind of curse, and even if people do this, they use some kind of mysterious powers, and none the less, people died on that tree, the tree was filled with some kind of energie, that was for sure by now, Ashrams mission was not to put an end to this, that was the job of Sivamet and theyre group of want to be heros, he knew he would get to that tree first, and he smirked lightly then, they would never know he was there. . .

"Interresting indeed" Was the only thing a dark figure in a corner of the Inn was thinking, he was no man of big groups trampling around, yet he knew Sivamet, this was not the time to have a talk and share some time with her anyways, she didnt realize that he was here by now, he would not wait around, this situation made him, none the less, curious. And after all, he was not someone trusting in Skills of people he never met before, and Sivamet should have a shadow watching over her. Was it Curiousity about this Adventure or something else that made him act, he wasnt sure for now, but the only thing that the others in the Inn may have heared now or seen, was the door closing with an shadow gone