While carrying the wounded Elf on your shoulders, you flee eastward, away from his pursuers.

When Revealed: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until X Locations are discarded, where X is the number of players in the game. Add those locations to the staging area. Then, if Falaїn is in play, either deal 1 damage to him, or remove 1 time counter from him.

Time 2.

Response: Before the last time counter is removed from this stage, if Falaїn is in play, shuffle Leather Scroll Case and Handwritten Note into the encounter deck.

Forced: After the last time counter is removed from this stage, advance to stage 4.