The Resistance fighters are defeated, but not without cost. You see some of your captors lying motionless on the ground. As you are prompted to move on by a Ranger, you are surprised to witness that they just leave their own there in the dirt without showing any sign of grief. You have a lot of questions but this is not the time or place to discuss them.

As your group is led deeper into the Wychwood, you come to a clearing where about fifty young A'Dendri Rangers are standing in unnaturally straight rows, totally unmoving. You are just passing them in eerie silence, when the ground begins to shake. An A'Dendri is approaching, larger than any of his race you have seen before. He is at least thrice the height of a human, and heavily armored with what appears to be hard pieces of wood and bark grown over his whole body. Long strides take him to the lines of unmoving Rangers, and he releases a flood of spores to all of them. In an instant, the whole clearing is brimming with life. All except your guards withdraw their roots from the ground to quickly move into something that looks like bushes to you… until it stands up. The behemoth consists entirely of living wood, looking like a massive tree with five thick trunks. Under the control of the A'Dendri, the bioconstruct moves toward the Deepwood border, transporting the Rangers between its branches. You wonder if it goes to reinforce the border after the ambush, as the heavy tread of trunklike feet follows long after the behemoth is out of sight.