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Alzar returns to the glade and meets with Marilla again. She has prepared a large magical brew. It will not only cancel the curse, but it will also restart the growth of the land. She advises Alzar that the route he took has even more orcs than before, so he should instead take a southerly route that will cross the mountains to the south, but overland in a natural pass in the peaks. It’s longer, and will add at least a week or ten days to his travels but it should prove safer.
After his recent brush with death, Alzar wants safer. He points out that the land is getting colder and colder, and perhaps snows will begin soon. She agrees, but it’s the best way. Scouts have shown more than triple the number of orcs that were there before.
That’s a bit intimidating. This whole thing could have been handled in a week with a teleport spell. Ah well. Or he could head back, and then use Passwall or Transmute Rock to Mud to make a passage in a different point and enter the tunnel behind the orc camp. Ah well.
He takes the alternate path.
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