Re: The Journey North
"While I don't have Elora's gifts, I'll try. We moved towards the area in which we thought the monster might lair and found an unfrozen waterfall. Seeing that it was not easy to approach, we sought to lure it out. It smacked me around a bit but we put it down and it fell into the stream below.
"Once the book was secured, I striped down to my skivvies to see if there were other treasures. The thing was healing, reconstituting itself before my eyes! Leaping out of the water, I yelled for my companions and grabbed my blade. They held it off while I landed a fatal blow on the thing, melting it away with fire.
"We found some small treasure below but the book, ah, the book was the prize and now, we've brought it to you."
He paused, "In the interest of detail, I am going to order a hot bath and get a hot rock and toss it in to thaw my pecker."