
### 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 brats spin a cocoon and later hatch into sylph. The sylph eventually become more and more plantlike until they become mossmen. And the mossmen eventually become more and more sedentary until they take root and grow special tuber-like structures that hatch into bush brats, completing the cycle.

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