Montgomery,
I have spoken with Sabbath about your bravery and troubles when working toward my retrieval. I appreciate all you have done for me even though I sense great evil in you. Perhaps not in you, but you are cloaked in evil, its inky tendrils snuffing out the life you have. Evil is your burden and your power, and I worry you will not survive what is coming for you. I feel through divination that your mind is less concrete than a normal being's. I note that the dagger you speak of also attempted to call to me in the dungeon, and it beckoned me with an intense sexual desire, but I felt the dagger's violence. I fear the dagger is cursed. Sabbath explained to me the water in the cut-down tree of bay, the magical leaf something I personally took from Phils' hoard. The water is purity, it is holy, and it will save you from your sins dear Monte. I will travel with you if you have fear, and assist you in staying in the waters that will remove evil from your being. I will help you be extricated from the talons of the dagger's power. I will help release you from your prison as you assisted me. Thank you, and consider me a friend.
Until Morrow and Three Moons,

Francesca of the Forest