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 You have lost the Ranger and there seems little point in making your way any further into the wetland. Turning Pallenten around you retrace your steps back towards the grasslands in the south. This is not an easy task however, the marshes are truly a maze and it takes more than one attempt to find your way out. It is a place of hidden dangers and shifting ground, where the waters move, rippling and disturbed as if something large is lurking within them. On more than one occasion you are sure you see shadows in the depths, or the ridged back of a large animal sliding beneath the black waters as you pass. You cannot say what it might be, however it gives you good reason to urge Pallenten on all the faster.
It takes more than a few hours to find your way back onto open ground. At each turn of the trail, or each intersecting path you must watch for the Ranger, but it is soon evident that he has been lost to the Faerron, and it may be days before he can find his way out. When you do emerge from the grasp of the marshlands it is at a point only a short distance further to the west than your entry. At least, you console yourself, you have not lost any ground in evading the Kalborean. After brushing the last clinging remnants of the Faerron from yourself and Pallenten you turn her towards the looming presence of the Devkraager Tor.
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