Day 20

The rain still has not stopped but at least the wind is much calmer now. I left the inn this morning after only a few hours of interrupted sleep. When I got to the barren lands it did not take me too long to find some pearls of frost. The monster must have come close to the village last night. I thought it would have retreated into its territory from fear of the weather but apparently it did not.

I have been walking all day. As time passed by it became harder and harder to find traces of the monster. There have been many times when I have wondered if I am heading in the right direction. Then again, what is the right direction? I am tracking a monster that nearly destroyed the village all that time ago. Am I heading straight for it? Should I be trying to flank it? In the end it doesn't really matter - all I can do is walk on and hope to find more pearls of frost until I can see it and hopefully it can't see me. Then I can decide how best to approach it.

As the sky began to darken I found a rare patch of trees in this desolate landscape. I have set up camp at the top of them and the eye-staff glows and illuminates the surrounding area. I would not like to be out here in the pitch dark.

 Lonely trees.