<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5b/Dbfa70f0e021c37b98581e1bad06e309ff5ef93009888e2e4c39309e9ab42fa7.png)</div><strong>Elana Rainflower</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tu20veL230jCzaThIgLROREGP_I0BhS_drElU2QDkEk/edit#)<br/><br/>When they approached the woods the next morning, the newcomer took a moment to cast fold her hands an a gesture of invocation, two fingers of one hand facing the heavens.  A diagram lit the ground bellow the scantily clad elf.  Elana took three deep breaths.  With each breath, the diagram grew brighter...<br/><br/>Brighter...<br/><br/>Brighter...<br/><br/>“I invoke the music of the spheres.”  In the glow, her hair lifted up on an unseen wind.  “I intone the celestial formula of extension.  I call upon seventeen ancestral heroes to empower my muscles...”<br/><br/>Her eyes flew open with a brilliant flash of light.<br/><br/><strong>”Might!</strong><br/><br/><div align="center">*   *   *</div><br/>At the start of the journey, Elana kept her powerful bow strung and held in hand with an arrow knocked.  Moving into the darkened woods, it was clear she wasn't likely to get much use of it.  The elf girl returned her arrow to her quiver and shouldered her bow.<br/><br/>Elana frowned, “Does anyone have  a light source?  I ran out night before last when some clouds rolled over the moon.”<br/><br/>She pulled out a metal bar with some levels and knobs, “Well, I could make us a lantern, but that's only useful if someone had oil.<br/><br/>“If no one has light I can put a few torches together for us.”<br/><br/><div align="center">*   *   *</div><br/>However they lit their journey, Elana's eyes widened and her jaws dropped at the collorful mushroom lights/  “Wow,” she breathed.  “it's so beautiful.”<br/><br/>The elf girl took a few paces between the mushroom lights.  Then she frowned and looked around. “i think someone's out there.”