The Danger Gang Revisit That Cursed Forest and Fix Lleryn

Upon their midnight arrival at Thessaloniki, the Danger Gang begins looking for their old buddy Clement the guard. The other guards say he's not on duty, but eye them warily as they go check in to an Inn to rest until dawn. In the morning, after Gershom has left for a stroll through the local promenades and piazzas, Clement and a group of twenty guards show up at the Inn. "You're under arrest for witchcraft 'old friend'," Clement declares.

"Don't you mean, I'm Charming? I'm Charming you? I'm casting the magical spell Charm Person on you?" replies Martialis.

"Hey these guys are alri..." Clement begins to respond, but one of his fellow guards clubs him in the back of the head. While Karl is intimidated by their numbers, Kotrag is more bothered by the prospect of being fenced-in in the gaol. He attacks the guard. Marty knows which way the wind is blowing and changes into a lion, doing little to clear his name of the witchcraft charges against him. He then picks Karl up in his jaws and carries him out of there. They bid a hasty retreat out of town, arrows flying at their butts the whole time.

Once out of the city limits, Marty writes a pair of notes for Kolya and Gershom, telling him where to meet them and delivering them in bird form. They agree that they will not be able to return there any time soon.

So they press on through that same old forest, the creepy one full of awful squirrels. En route they are harassed by a band of five boars. These boars are tough, boy, and kind of gross looking; frothing and the mouth and covered with pustules. These boars are plenty tough, and one of them soon knocks Karl out...