The Isle lies motionless beneath the scarlet eye of the Blood Moon, its jagged stones painted crimson where the terrible omen looms over the sea. The waves are equally still, as if holding their breath, and the air hums faintly, alive with a palpable tension that you cannot source. You walk carefully, breathing in the ocean air as your paws crunch over salt-encrusted rock, shadows long and twisted by the eerie crimson glow.
As the island sleeps, anchored and hushed by the pulsing moon overhead, you search the ridges in search of the rune you feel in your very marrow is here - but buried beneath coral stone or resting on a peak high above, you do not know.
Midday burns as red as dusk in this ominous twilight world, cast in shadow and ill portent; you pause near the island's heart where the air feels heavy and almost wrong. You begin to dig, faster and faster, claws scraping against stone until your breath grows ragged and weak and your strength flags. Nothing answers.
The Isle does not move today, but you feel as though it's watching you.
A soft wind blows, and the fog shifts...
... While the Dream Visitor has vanished, you nevertheless feel a pull, and have the sense that your next search may (hopefully) prove more fruitful.