BETRAYED!

Long story short, after nearly getting in a fight with a perch guard who enjoyed just a little too much trying to swing his dick around we finally got to meet with the Mayor again. Still not entirely certain what caused me to be so standoffish, I will be the first to admit I'm usually quite quick to back down when faced with aggression but something about the entire thing had me glaring the birdfolk down with more malice than I thought myself capable of. And then that damned mayor, we were supposed to get our letter so we could go to the council and handle those damned fires but now its another quest. This time everyone is whispering of a witch in the woods who is summoning demons, and both Scrap and Collina are pretty dead set on killing her if we manage to find her, but I really would like to take a different approach. What if everyone is blowing this out of proportion and she is just an innocent woman? Would we be killing her for nothing but practicing magic in a swamp?!
 
Sometimes life makes you wonder why you bother making plans in the first place. You can carefully plan out every little thing you need to do but because you get so focused on those details even the smallest thing can trip you up. After finding an imp and a shrine, and fighting the stinky little bugger we finally made out ways to the witch (Susan's) home in the swamp. I managed to convince the others to just try talking to her first though we made up a story about Collina and I being students from the Avium that were lost. After talking with her a bit and getting to know her and Normal (her beetle) our story broke over me asking a dumb question and then Scrap was spotted through a window. So we all sat down and told her the truth, turns out she really was summoning demons but not with malice. She was trying to investigate ways to stop the scorched grove from continuing to expand or maybe even putting it out. They hadn't been much help though and she was out of supplies. We offered to help her by catching frogs.
 
Every. time. Every damn time I get eaten! I at least was able to fight my way out of the frog but this is getting positively ridiculous! Can I go on one adventure without being consumed?! And then when we managed to get the frogs and help Susan, we were waiting outside and then the demon she summoned ended up attacking her. We fought it and saved her and she swore of summoning demons. She gave us her instrument as proof of her "death" so we could finish our quest. We headed back and finally managed to get our letter, next stop Alderheart!!