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"I told ye, boy, wasn't my doing. Forest wanted you to live, so you where allowed to. Thanking me, is like thanking the brush when it makes a proper stroke." The fox turned back and fixed an eye upon the warrior, a smirk plastered upon it's muzzle. It seemed amused as it stopped along the path it was traveling. "Not every spirit can be cast out, my good swordsman. However, this shade deserves peace...as well as a reckoning for it's misdeed. The dead attacking the living is not something the forest would approve of. Come, come, follow." He trailed towards the line of trees behind the shrine, and the dug burrow. "However, shades have things to tether them to this world...things that require exorcism. But this shade has casually let slip his tether...not a very cunning move when dealing with a fox, I must say."

He swished his tails behind him, sitting beside the burrow. "Now, we just need to find it. Suggestions?" It asked with a wiry grin.

Are shrugs "I could try to reverse the steps of the other male but that would probably end up in me angering the shade, though I'm much more able to fight it it still isn't the best idea. It is overgrown so I would have a hard time anyway but I could do it." Are's eyes scanned the ground "Hopefully I can anyway."

"It was using a cycle when it was visible," David suggested, standing rather timidly behind the warrior, his wolf ears pricked forwards.

"Might I suggest we call in a trained robber for this affair?" The fox smirked as he turned and thrust his muzzle into the burrow, letting forth a small rapid fire series of barks and yips, as he drew back, his conversation was returned by a surly set of chattering. Smoothly, in a dust of loose dirt, a raccoon's face emerged from the dug under-root den.

The fox leveled eyes with the raccoon, and let forth a cacophony of yips, barks, and other sounds as they held a quick conversation. Then he turned back to the two, "This friend of mine, he has a good nose. He can find the grave. But he's not very strong, if he gets atacked robbing the skeleton. Do you two think you can protect him, once he finds it?"

He then turned and placed a paw to the tree. "Nature has...a natural way to exorcise such things." He removed the paw, a small white capped mushroom had appeared. "But I need it brought here, where the forest bolsters my power."

Are shrugs "I can fight spirits as long as they are visible, beyond that I can only shield him with my body." The wolf's eyes scanned around "I'll do what I have to until the little creature has finished his job."