Against the Forest Oracle
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- Blood-splattered warden's cloak, iron arrowheads, three bodies.
- Priest, certain of his own devotion and that of his people, never wrong.
- An abandoned house with an oak piercing the roof, reaching for freedom, and children speaking like birds singing.
- Aspiring warden and his master dead at his feet.
- Shrine maintained by pious travelers, blood-smeared.