Song 7 - The Track Back on the path, we feel energised and focussed. Song 8 - Rise Again Hear a live version of this song Smoke appears on the horizon. A massive fire has destroyed everything ahead, reducing everything to ash. Feeling lost and sad, we wish desperately for help and discover a miracle. We find Treebeard has left a seed in our pocket. We can’t see how it will help and throw it down in despair. Watered by our tears, this magical seed sprouts and renews the land, even brighter than before. Song 9 - The Crossroads Hear a live version of this song A crossroads appears on the journey. Which way to go? Song 10 - The Mountain The path we choose rises up a mountain so high that it’s top is lost above the clouds. We slog up until it gets very steep, where we have a panic attack. Stopping, in alarm, we look around and, seeing the beauty of the landscape below, we are filled with a tremendous energy, helping us continue, up through the cloud layer, into a vista of cloud sea and islands of rocky peaks. Song 11 - The Pass The higher path, above the clouds, is guarded by a mighty Gryphon. The Gryphon questions us to make sure we are ready to attempt to walk this higher path. The path is along the mountain ridge, connecting the rocky islands but hidden in the cloud layer, so you have to walk it ‘blind’. Brian Gulland with 70s founded medieval, prog folk rock band, “Gryphon” has added bassoon and recorders instrumentation to this track, which brings their band’s character to life.

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Song 6 - Lost We continue along the path through the woods. After a while, a small, man-like creature, a spriggan, jumps out from the trees and tells us we can’t go any further. When we refuse to oblige, the spriggan jumps about in annoyance, takes out his pipe and plays a driving tune, bringing on a thick mist. It is so thick that the path can no longer be seen. The only choice is to follow the sound of the tune and he leads us away from the path… At length the tune and mist fade, along with the daylight. In the dark of the forest, we realise we are lost but see small, colourful, dancing lights. On closer inspection, we see they are beautiful, winged figures, who are encouraging us to follow them. We follow and enters a hidden, inner part of the wood. We stay lost in this place for a very long time and forget our previous life… One day we accidently stumble back to the outer wood. Feeling so lost and drained, we can hardly stand, we lean against a tree and find ourselves saying “Treebeard”. Treebeard appears and guides us back onto the path and our journey. Members of prog folk rock band “Spriggan Mist” have augmented this track with vocals and instrumentation.