Brent was pretty sure he held his breath from the time he ceased the casting to the time Gerald first spoke. The older man wasn't dead, so that was a good start. He was pretty sure he'd be immediately disqualified from IMPS if he killed a person. The shivering had also stopped, which reminded Brent that he had actually cast an Insulation Charm on the man before erasing the memory of the whole encounter. Good thing he didn't think of that one after he cast the Memory Charm.

Alright, so...the dude was alive. What now?

Then the man spoke, and Brent had to actually bite his bottom lip to keep from laughing. Duuuuude. Had he known the charm was actually going to work, he'd have made this A LOT more fun. Instead of telling Gerald he'd been looking for rare plants, he'd have told him something like 'you've come to the forest to secretly practice a wild chicken dance and will now head back home doing the dance the entire way'. Oh, man! That would have been so much fun to watch!

"Okay, yeah...erm, I guess this is it, man. Good luck finding that rare plant of yours," he said. As an after thought, he wondered if Gerald would spend the rest of his life looking for a rare plant he had supposedly already begun looking for. He decided not to correct the man on calling him Ben.

For a moment, Brent hesitated. There was literally no sign of the direction he should go in. He spent a half-minute or so looking around, until he remembered the Kenaz-emblazed stick in his hand and looked down at it. Raidho would know where to go... Brent collected a second stick then flicked his wand out his holster. "Intaglio Raidho!" he exclaimed. As he cast this, his thoughts focused on how Raidho might be able to help him.

Raidho: Travel, both in physical terms and those of lifestyle direction. A journey, vacation, relocation, evolution, change of place or setting. Seeing a larger perspective. Seeing the right move for you to make and deciding upon it.

"raidho raidho raidho
r r r r r r r r r
ru ra ri re ro
rudh radh ridh redh rodh
(rut rat rit ret rot)
or er ir ar ur
r r r r r r r r r"

Brent finished the chant, and then with all his belongings gathered, and the guidance of now two separate runes, he waited. "Alright, Raidho. Show me what you're made of," he said.