The village had felt wrong to the young diviner right from their entrance - the cause could not be directly detected, and was as ethereal and intangible as her sense of her own visions, but it was there. The feeling intensified as they neared the church, becoming more and more real. Less a dancing fantasy, but something heavy that sat in her gut like a rock - an appropriate metaphor, as it felt like something born of the soil, of claggy mud and clay. For a moment, Callista fancied that she smelled the rich, moist scent of freshly-tilled earth, but after shaking her head it was gone. Otherwise, the village did not appear to be different to any other that the girl had passed through on the few times she had left Dagon while growing up, or on her long road since leaving for good. There was a strange lack of people in the streets, and that was good. The less people that saw her, the less people that could report her to any of the men on the Paregis payroll who were scouring the lands. There had already been two run-ins, and Callista had no wish to experience a third. The thought of going home made her shiver, and she saw the knight and old man glance at her.<br/><br/>“It was not the magic” she spoke slowly “though that is certainly present. I do not know what…” Callista caught a glimpse of the corpses hanging in the breeze – partially mummified by the sun and salty air, mostly rotted, swathes of tattered dark cloth whipping around them in the breeze, and her mouth dried up. She had, until now, never seen a dead body. Usually so observant, how had she missed them hanging from the gibbet? Eyes widened, she forced herself to look away and stare at the knight, Tokar. She didn’t really know him that well, but he’d shown her kindness without wanting anything back, and that was enough, for now.<br/><br/>“…I was not sure what was here, but it is born of the earth, somehow, or tied to it. But not elemental – it is dark, something that stays beneath the earth and uses it as cover from the light. The door…I feel nothing from it. Perhaps we should go in?”