
### Protocol J

The secret is this: the bush brats, the sylph, and the mossmen are all distinct life stages of the same creature. When it is time, the bush brat spins a cocoon around itself and later hatches into a sylph. The sylph eventually become more and more plantlike until it becomes a mossman. And the mossman eventually becomes more and more sedentary until it takes root and grows special tuber-like structures which hatch into bush brats, completing the cycle.

You have completed the *Secret of the Forest Children* quest.
