Tomas's Letter

As you prepare to search for the final fragment, a messenger arrives with a letter. The handwriting is shaky, familiar. It's from Innkeeper Tomas. "Dear friend," it reads. "I've been having the dreams again. Worse now. I see a battlefield - a war that never ends - and I'm on it. I see souls screaming, and I'm one of them. I went to the temple priest, and he said my soul was 'touched by the deep.' He said the corruption in the cellar - the one you cleared all those years ago - left a mark on me. A soul-mark. He said when the boundary between life and death fractures, I'll be pulled through. I don't know what that means. But I wanted to write to you, because you were the first person who helped me. You killed the rats. You went into the cellar. You started all of this. And I wanted to say: thank you. For everything. If I don't see you again... know that I believed in you. From the very first day. - Tomas" You fold the letter carefully and put it in your pack. You have work to do.