Slippery Shadows

ludo Braved the forests, braved the stone Braved the icy winds and fire Braved and beat them on my own "Do not thank me yet," Ludo advises with a brief wiggle of a rag, as if to say that the most difficult tasks are yet to come. Iris has to complete them all before there is anything to be grateful for. Still, the gauntlet has been thrown and there is little to do now but to crawl back down the stone and away. (Hopefully she doesn't fall). Either way, when next she turns to look at the statue, Ludo will simply be gone. It's as if it was never there. As if it were made of seafoam itself. ~FIN