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Stage Three

‘Forest Escort’

Five Waves

Adam startled awake as his whole world shook.

He stood up in a brief moment of panic but then realised where he was.

The light of an orange sunset flashed through a window nearby. The wooden interior and green bench cushions were a familiar sight. Opposite him sat Belamouranthe, wearing the green dress that Weaver had made and dangling her legs over the edge of the seat. Adam was also wearing his new set of clothes, and in the right pocket of his newly-spun pants was the spidersilk sack he’d ordered.

Christ, I don’t even remember putting these clothes on…

Emelia, Gladwyn, Beck, and Adam had talked until the tavern closed, although the time-looper repeatedly dipped from their conversation to help out other people. The initial meeting had been slightly tense as they all tried to figure each other’s motives out, but they’d left there with mutual respect, he thought. Of course, Emelia had impressed upon Beck the danger inherent to the abyssal tooth, while he and Gladwyn had grilled her about being a time-traveller.