Chapter 27 - Rescue

• Dave -
• I think we finally got them all, we now have a small pile of these talismans that we have gathered from around the entrance of the mountains cave as well as inside, it seems that they are not overly powerful based on the sheer quantity, I mean the phrase quality over quantity must be a phrase for a reason right?
• Anyway, after we spent a good half an hour searching the weeds and brush around the entrances of the various caves, as well as any cracks and crevices in the mountain wall we could spot, we think we have finally found them all. Mark says he feels closer, like his memory is more solid, so he has gone ahead a little to confirm the path is now clear in his mind. Before his mind was blurring the closer he seemed to get to the right path, like something was blocking his memories, he could remember everything while we were outside looking at the mountain, but the closer he came to reliving the memories, the blurrier they became. I’m not really sure how to explain what he told me about it, about how it felt, like he knew where he needed to go but the words wouldn’t come, but when he was on the right path it messed with him, turned him in circles. We tried to push through it by going the way that confused him the most, but those caves are a labyrinth and we were walking in circles. So we searched and we found and now we are just waiting for him to come back, he shouldn’t be long now. I am on edge, I know Ace is not there, so the plan is to capture as many of them as we can and release our people at the same time, they will be able to help us gather the prisoners together. The main reason I am on edge, besides the lack of Ace’s presence, is that Mark escaped a little over 2 hours ago now, they must be preparing for an ambush, they would be foolish if they thought we would let them keep our people once one of our own returned to us. The only glimmer of hope I have is that they are relaxed knowing their talismans are going to protect their whereabouts. I mean, they only sent one guard after him, they must feel quite confident in their witch. Thanks to Daisy though we have been able to work a way around the witch and are moments away from thwarting whatever nefarious plan Ace has cooked up, by taking as many of his people as we can.