The last arrow flies, embedding itself in the chest of one of your captors, and you find yourself alone in a field of the dead. Both sides took total losses and although the Resistance had the element of surprise, the Rangers had picked them off from afar and butchered them at close quarters. Man for man, clearly the greater warriors. They had wiped each other out, and for what?

You search the bodies of the dead to find some answers and discover a single Resistance A'Dendri still alive. Guide rushes to their side and gentle spores drift to the prone figure as though afraid to cause harm. The dying A'Dendri's eyes open and with intense concentration a single spore is sent in reply. "They do for us," she conveys. At some unseen signal from the A'Dendri, Guide reaches out a hand and takes a small receptacle made out of weeds from beside the warrior. As she raises it, it unfurls to reveal a number of mushrooms, black with white fringes. You look back to the wounded female and see the same mushrooms attached to her now still body. She has passed away.

You ask Guide what she knows and she answers with something that translates to, "We all want same. Be free." She looks up at you, eyes wide, and relates the last message from the A'Dendri, "Find Mother, they say." Seeing as you do not know what her Knock means, she goes on explaining, "All-mother. Oldest. Wisest. Hidden." Then she points to the mushrooms. "Take in, eat." She struggles with the next hand signals, "Change you? New you?" She offers you the mushrooms.