she's grateful for their help nonetheless, and leaves with a promise of visiting should she be around the settlement some other time. before she leaves, though, she turns to the boy once more and asks if prior to getting 'haunted' by the white-faced demon, if he had gone into the woods — played around by the shrine she had followed the aura into?

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wanda mentions to Isar that through some scrying (don't @ her) she was able to see such creature from the eyes of one of the lost ones (no need to be entirely honest, it's too complicated otherwise). as for description, she will say that it "moves on its hands and with the vines to drag it. it dislikes fire." wanda will ask that in lieu of not seeing something like it before, if there were perhaps stories of such creatures, even in the more imaginative of tales parents would tell kids, or some such?