Chokahr chases the needle blight into the fog and watches as it grows in reverse: younger, healthier, then smaller, finally into a little sapling, then a flower, then a bud, then it goes into the ground and is gone.

He holds up his hands to see the scars fade. Still covered in black sap and mud, but he remembers them like this when he was a young man. Thankfully he feels just as strong, if not even stronger.

He looks up to see a brilliant white castle outlined in the fog beyond. But just up the path is a 3 story fortress, rectangular in function, the drawbridge down, the gate open. At the top of the fortress is a tree that looks just like the Gulthias Tree you saw at Yester Hill, though this one doesn't bleed black, it is white and pure.

Reason returns to you. You could go back, or you could go forward.