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You set out immediately, traveling by night through the trackless jungle, then orienting yourself the next morning. You encounter no signs of pursuit. Therko considers building a cart for the cog, but the jungle is too thick. Control carries it using the abandoned idol's ropes and pulleys, complaining all the way about the damp.

After several days of hard travel, you leave the jungle.

The swamps are quiet, the Bridge Keepers having either hidden or fled. Only some proto-crocodile's failed attempt to eat your cog, and Control's ferocious retaliation, enlivens the journey. By the end of it, everyone stinks of Vecla's anti-insect ointment and longs for the sight of the nameless river.

As you pass into the rocky, hilly forest that borders the riverlands one cloudy morning, Alexius suddenly freezes.

"They're back," he says, pointing to a gray shape as it dips below the clouds.

It's the airship. The still air carries the mad, joyous screams of the hunters on board.

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