Revelations on First Watch - Casserdos - Sixth day of Solea, 1485

As if the night could not get odder Secilia is here! That she would be here from across the sea is shocking enough, but she brought a half naked man and a newborn babe with her.
 
Shockingly enough Secilia knows not only me but also Dekar. Well. That is good. If she traveled with him and dwarves well than there is no doubt that my judgment has not been blinded by my practicality.
I am a little concerned though. Dekar won’t say much about the dwarves he traveled with and I do remember how he flirted and carried on with them at Runestone…
He is his own person and it is his business but I can’t help but hope we don’t run into that particular group of dwarves on our travels.
 
It also worries me that Secilia never seems to truly convey her purposes of her travel. At first I thought it was an elf thing, considering Inara was very much a traveling chronicler to begin with, but I am not so sure now that I have seen Secilia interact with Inara.
Perhaps it is due to Secilia being a half-blood or having her family killed by the church?
 
It was a bit shocking to see the celestial creature – Secilia called him Euriel – come down with her and her new charges, but no more so than anything else I have seen.
 
Hassim – the man – was hung upon the tree barely visible on the hillside. It is apparently called the Tree of Woe, a fitting name to be sure, as he and his then pregnant wife were presumedly betrayed and hung there.
The babe is so small it brings back memories I thought long forgotten. Of my younger siblings of how small and delicate they were as newborns. I can’t help but want to hold the child, as lacking in maternal instincts as I seem.
When I touch his wee hands I can’t help but wonder whether I will ever have children of my own. It’s a thought I must admit hasn’t crossed my mind since me arrival at the temple when I was seven years old. I didn’t have time for…normalcy…
I wonder what it would be like…
 
Grimmauldus obviously recognizes something about the man, perhaps he is one of those snake like peoples? Regardless Grimmauldus lets him live, meaning I let him live.
 
He is useful for information at least.
 
We learn of a city – the name escapes me – that hunted dragons until a dragon hunted them. Now the city is cursed, so that anyone who enter can never leave for they will turn to dust should they cross the city threshold. Interesting.
The others return to rest, with Secilia being allowed in our circle and conversing quietly with Inara before both slip into meditation. The man leaves his son on furs between me and Grimmauldus and skulks to forage amongst the cobwebs of the granary.
 
I am left on watch once more, though Dekar quietly slips away.
 
His wordless departure and the direction he headed in gives me a clue as to what he is about.
 
I have been blessed.
 
My beloved is a good man. A better person than I could ever hope to be. It is as I thought: he went to bury the dead mans wife.
It is no funerary rights, but it will prevent her body from being savaged by wild animals.
 
He is a good man.
 
The rest of our watch passes peacefully. Apart from some revelations about Secilia and the fact that Garrick’s body is missing and our dear friend is most likely now a revenant.
 
A revenant for what is my question…