
### Protocol K

You stand in the center of the Circle of Dreams.

Your connection to the forest and your knowledge of its children let's you know exactly what is going on here.

These are mossmen in the final stage of their lives. Having taken root around the stones, their final task is to create the tubers from which the bush brats hatch, restarting the life cycle.

A lone sylph emerges from the thick woods, stands at your side, and gestures toward the hedges with the tip of their spear.

> They sleep here. Once they've grown the Root of Life, they have earned their rest. So they sleep, and they dream.

The sylph steps up to a thick portion of hedge, its own forefather, and digs around in the dirt beneath it with the handle of its spear. It stoops down, reaches in, and pulls up a thick hunk of spongy root, earth clinging to it. It holds the root out to you.

> To begin the next part of your journey, you must eat of the Root of Life.

You take the root and lift it to your lips.

After you swallow your first bite, your head starts to swim, and your legs become weak. You sink to the ground, roll over, and close your eyes.

The sylph lifts you and deposits you into a gap in the hedge, and you sleep, and you dream.

You gain the *Dreamform* effect.
