**Left tightly folded in a shadowy corner of the Shadow Rest Tavern.  Addressed to Dark Crawler**

Dear Papa,

I can't do this anymore.  Everytime I have to push one of them away, it cuts into my heart, but The Walker is too close.  He's started sending his minions against the town and I think he's taken my mind a few times and made me attack my friends.  I don't want to be the one to kill them.  Please come help me get home.

I got to serve tea to the duke and dutchess and other nobles.  It made me homesick.  I did my best though because I don't want to shame you.  They're going to elect a new mayor and they said I can run the tavern and have people help me keep it safe.  We've had a lot of good business lately which helps me be bossy and mean to people.

Cassy is back too.  I did my best to show him I don't care that he's back and I think it worked.  He's a vampire now and we almost had to kill him, but that would have broken the order because The Doctor and Fracture and Donny are still alive.

The count who owned this town is a vampire too, but he's a bad one, not like the countess and Cassy and Glim.  The duke and dutchess own it now and we have to kill the count.

Fractured isn't part of my defense squad anymore because I told them we aren't friends.  I was really sad, but it's the only way I can protect them from The Devourer who I think might be The Walker but I'm not sure.

I can't keep being mean to them though.  I'll go mad or something.

There's a new lady in town too.  I told her she was boring and that seems to have ensured she won't like me.  She threw her own tea party and I wasn't invited so I threw a cocoa party and it was much better.  I can't piss off the ogre though so he's probably doomed, though I did warn everyone that if anything with glowing eyes comes out of my shadow they should run away.

I spent most of my time this weekend running the tavern, so I didn't see a whole lot of what went on outside of it.  I did get to go recover a node with the town and kill the baroness who was also a vampire.  Mostly I went because they said shadowy beasties were trying to defend them for the count and if there are shadowy beasties around it will be hard for you to get here.

Please please come take me home.

~Daly