[God Quest] silence will not cover me

Only now that the staff had been created, now that the Wicker Woman sap was safely encased behind wood and magic, flowing like lifeblood through the weapon, did Ludo appear in earnest. Its masked face bobbed and danced before Melita, admiring its own work, before shaking back and forth at the suggestion of something more. "You gave an offering, you asked, I provided," it said, as though the girl needed to be taught the way of things. "Be wary of offering more - some of those who answer prayers are not so kind. I am not so kind, in other moods." Tittering to itself, Ludo reached out a scrap of rags to pat Melita upon the head, before it whisked off again into the darkness of the trees and was gone. LUDO Braved the forests, braved the stone Braved the icy winds and fire Braved and beat them on my own