As you are deciding which way to go all of you hear a woman's voice say: my Lord Marius, protector of the free elves of the north, master of Greysnows and faithful servant of the true powers makes you this pledge: if you and the oppressors of the elves who you command, leave these lands in peace, he will provide for them a bounty of food and a promise of an early spring with gentle rain to nourish their fields. In a show of his good faith, one thousand stone of fresh fruit and vegetables has been left on the back slope of the Nest
It is loud and seems to come from above.