[i]Forest Maze[/i]
Clock Master was walking down the forests, with nothing else to do, exploring the depths of woods... little did he know about his own homeland's size.
He went deep in the woods of Ravenhold... ventured in and in till he saw a figure taking things from a chest. He couldn't recognize it, it was very dark. The figure left, and Clock Master couldn't help himself to take a look in the chest.
"Curses, the damned thing is locked."
The lock wasn't for a key, it was a puzzle. Person needed to make a right combination.
Clock Master started solving it and eventually manage to open it.
He found a brown cloak with red edges in the chest, along with few blankets that were used to cover something small, round-like object, most likely stone, tablet, who knows...
"What is this Savelite cloak doing here...? hmmm... oh what the hell, I'll take it!"
Clock Master ventured even deeper in the forest, now clearly lost. All of a sudden, wolf jumped infront of him.
The wolf slowly shapeshifted into human form. It was Marvolo, the Theurgist of the Church.
"Oh hello brother!" Clock Master smiled.
"you should know better then robbing chests..." Marvolo noticed a cloak Clock Master was holding "and stealing robes, brother!", Marvolo summoned the winds and pushed away Clock for some distance... He couldn't see what was happening, he was blinded by dust.
"that went well..." he thought. Indifferent as always, Clock Master continued walking trying to find a way out.
Clock Master noticed a wolf following him few times... Maybe this was some sort of a game for him. The forest was very dark, and the night wasn't very helpful, Clock Master continued to walk randomly tho, hoping to find a decent place to sleep on, for the trees were very big for him to climb on.
Suddenly, he saw a small glow of white infront... He just ran up on Princ Rhaegar. He also recognized him as that cloaked figure who was taking things from the chest.
He asked him for help, and explained how he got lost. Rhaegar answered him that he shouldnt take the forest as his playground... Rhaegar will show Clock Master the path to escape this part of the woods, but he'll need to prove himself.
"Brother, what's with all the games! Come on, poof me out of here."
"A path of woods that might hide some goods" Rhaegar said...
"I see that you're serious... oh well, I'll play along! Hmmm, I heard that upon trying to enter Loreroot so long ago, you speak of Maple Road, right?"
Rhaegar nods, and gives Clock Master one more test. He gives him a scroll and a candle to read it, and decode the picture on the scroll.
Clock was decoding this for some time, maybe even hours, while Rhaegar was standing still all the time. Clock almost lost his sight till he finally found the answer.
"Wolf of the Forests of Lore!" he spoke, "feeling good about yourself Marvolo, don't you?" Clock chuckled.
Rhaegar took Clock to a shelter for him to take rest. Clock fell asleep almost instantly, forgetting all the "fear".
When he woke up, he noticed that Rhaegar took him to a lighter part of the woods. "Splendid."
It was morning, but there was no sign of Rhaegar. "I better go find that lunatic brother of mine."
Clock Master found Rhaegar somewhere in the forest, near to the shelter, who was standing pointed at Marvolo.
They were both holding two weird stones each, in their hands, aimed at the sky. They were talking words he couldn't understand, louder and louder, as he saw the large stones starting to lose some of their parts. They have now turned into totally round objects, spheres, one at Rhaegar's hands, and one at Marvolo's. The both spheres blinked with small amount of white light for a second. Rhaegar's one started producing some kind of fire effects within it, while Marvolo's was producing water-like ones.
Rhaegar turns at Clock, noticing that he was watching, he spoke few words quietly, again on the language Clock didnt understand... Suddenly, dark fell into Clock's eyes and he fell unconscious. He woke up at the top of Ravenhold.
Was that a dream? Clock felt something in his hand... It was one of that stone's parts that fell out.
"... Whatever."