Gneiss, Cedar, & Katydid: Bargains with the Shadow



It was a week after Marianne went missing that we finally pieced together all the clues: her visits to the village priest, the strange books we found in her room which we realized were the cause of her asking to borrow money from each of us, the times we would find her staring out into the nothingness of a distant treeline, speaking quietly to no one, or so we thought. In time, we managed to follow her trail into the forests of Ardennes, deep and wild places lost or still untouched by mankind. It was there that we found the shrine...