The Matriarch returns to her throne, petals unfurling as she approaches. "I know of your plague. The smell of it reaches us even here. You are wise to seek our wisdom and foolish to think it would be given. I could deny you, the Treekillers could wither in my shade, cut off at the root." She seems amused by the thought, then dismisses it. "Nevertheless you will have your answer. Because in doing so you will serve and perhaps die for my purposes. See now what you came to find!"

Suddenly, images enter your mind - humans from an age long past, hacking at trees centuries old, making them fall in the blink of an eye. Treekillers. You feel a great hatred as your land is consumed. Humans with sharp metal weapons on a vast battlefield. Treekillers. You see great bioforms and A'Dendri rise up to resist the Treekillers. They meet in battle and life water feeds the soil. It is not enough though. As both armies are turned to mulch, shadows begin to rise from the ground, dark, hateful things, and beyond them a larger shadow looms over all. You see the Great Father rise to defend the land, but he too is consumed by the shadow. Hope turns to desperation and the shadow advances. As it gets closer, the dark shape comes into focus - as the blighted trunks of the Deepwood trees.

At last, a final intense picture comes to you. A cave. A cave that swallows up all light. It is the Heart of Darkness and as you stare into its depth you feel yourself drawn into its inky blackness, deeper and deeper.

After that, the light leaves you, and with it your consciousness.