Roza Helmworth and Dullahan search the area around the ship. The rent cleft of upturned earth behind the ship is strewn with smoldering debris. If the bodies were burnt or buried here, it isn't obvious where, despite a long search.
In the end, it was Brother Jonathan that found them, along with his brother in faith, Fyodor Saltsvits. His search for religious iconography didn't take him far. In most faiths, if the dead are to be buried or burned, a sign is left of them. As he approached a line of upturned debris, he noted ash mingled with earth here, as if a campfire had been buried. There looked to be four the size of medium humanoids, and one that was quite a bit larger - more than likely, a mass grave.
Atil, Altheros, and Stella d'Vadalis went off into the woods, talking little among one another, to search for what animal live they could find to eat, tame, or avoid.
A flock of copper and auburn swans swam gracefully in a pond. Unless they turned out to be delicious you can't imagine setting up a breeding program, but taken alive as a flock, they might find themselves in a private menagerie in a Skyway estate, however briefly.
The trio also came across a set of large tracks. Whatever made them had four cloven hoofs the size of dinner plates. They led deeper into the forest.
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