The Stonekeeper

Emily and Navin look out toward a house perched atop a large rock—it is surrounded by water. As Emily prepares to swim to the house, what appears to be a large man in a trench coat and fedora sails toward them in a rowboat. When he steps out of the boat, they see that the man is holding a strange-looking gun, so Emily and Navin decide to run. When they reach the ridge of the mountainside they’re climbing, the shadowy elf with sharp teeth (Trellis) is waiting for them. Before he can attack them, the trench-coated man stuns him with his gun; he then tells Emily and Navin to follow him to the boat. Not wanting to wait around for their attacker to wake up, they quickly make their way back to the boat.

As they row toward the house on the rock, the trench-coated man explains that Trellis is after the amulet for its power. He also reveals that the amulet is a gift from Emily’s great-grandfather Silas and that he is Silas’s assistant. Emily has more questions, but the man assures her that she can ask all the questions she wants when she meets Silas in person.