The Hollow Forest was never not creepy, and though Tal would never admit it out loud he was kind of glad Alys had agreed to come with him. Though he'd passed through it before and even hunted in it with Sah on a different quest, he'd never really stopped to examine the Blood Birches that grew there.
If Frey hadn't given him this task, he still wouldn't have. If a tree wasn't being used for lumber he usually didn't pay much attention to them, and finding out that these particular trees could bleed did nothing to excite his arboreal curiosity.
Still, it was a Blood Birch he was on the lookout for as he and Alys and Boreal entered the steel-forged forest and Tal kept his knife at the ready in case something less friendly was waiting among the clashing branches. His companion paced ahead of them and a ways off to the side, her pale coloring blending eerily into the snow that lingered even in Longheat in Halo as she hunted rabbits.
"How's your trainin' goin'?" he asked curiously as they walked. Magic or physical, he figured she could take her pick and answer with either or both.
Blood Birch (common) - Found within the Hollow Forest and mutated by magic, these trees have white trunks striped with silver, and white, semi-translucent leaves that are replaced each Flowerbirth. The sap within the trees is warm, bright crimson and tastes faintly metallic, almost like blood.
If Frey hadn't given him this task, he still wouldn't have. If a tree wasn't being used for lumber he usually didn't pay much attention to them, and finding out that these particular trees could bleed did nothing to excite his arboreal curiosity.
Still, it was a Blood Birch he was on the lookout for as he and Alys and Boreal entered the steel-forged forest and Tal kept his knife at the ready in case something less friendly was waiting among the clashing branches. His companion paced ahead of them and a ways off to the side, her pale coloring blending eerily into the snow that lingered even in Longheat in Halo as she hunted rabbits.
"How's your trainin' goin'?" he asked curiously as they walked. Magic or physical, he figured she could take her pick and answer with either or both.
Blood Birch (common) - Found within the Hollow Forest and mutated by magic, these trees have white trunks striped with silver, and white, semi-translucent leaves that are replaced each Flowerbirth. The sap within the trees is warm, bright crimson and tastes faintly metallic, almost like blood.
