[HQ Ignorance] Scene 81: The Curing of Icthya

[Sam Elliot]

> Over the next three days, Inuin leads the party through the woodlands
> west of the Elf Sea. Icthya reaches the stage where she can walk and
> talk normally, as if she is almost entirely healed. "It will be two or
> three more days", she explains to Aalmon on the morning of the third
> day, as Inuin brings them to the waters edge. As the sun rises above the
> great freshwater lake, it becomes readily apparent that the small party
> is not along. The woods by the wate's edge have a gnarled structure to
> them - homes to aldryami who issue forth.

Abasing herself as is customary for a stranger, Icthya sings a song to
the foreign elves, to tell them where her roots lie, of the forest she
has planted and of her mission. She begs them to treat the Far Rider
as their guest and asks them the name of their great wood.