Salga and I left the cave, and I concealed the entrance, using magic with leafs and twigs to make sure it was convincing. Then I decided I needed to figure out what had happened. I decided to try something with the Hourglass Shield. (Please note, I still do not fully understand my shield's uses, so much of what I do is experimentation to see if something will work. It's main function is freezing time around me, but it can also reverse time (although it takes so much energy) among other things.) Using the shield, I made a window in which I could see the past, which was not at all easy to do! In my view of the past, I saw the moon elves walking into the forest, exploring. They had anxious but determined looks on their faces. Suddenly the ground beneath them turned into a liquid, and they sank through, as if something was slowly pulling them down. Most of them chose then to go into a coma. Those who didn't choked on the mud and died.
With what I saw, it was obvious that someone powerful had buried them purposely. But who? And why?
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