With the party gathered together, they venture down into the secret complex of the house. They find Vance, who had run down here once the fighting with Barren and the Dryads had started. Opal can see through his bluff and tries to apprehend him. He runs, but only a little before the group catches him. Acting very differently, he eludes that his only job was to delay the Vigils to allow the others to get away. He can get out of his handcuffs and run back toward the surface. The Vigils look around the complex, where they find a child dryad named Chestnut. Clearly in pain, they figure out it is being underground that hurts her. The Party agrees to save the girl and returns to the surface. They meet with the dryads, who explain that their little one was taken, and that's why they attacked. To slow the party, Vance sets the building on fire, and the Vigils follow the dryads somewhere to get help from someone that the dryads know.

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