Editing Stranded in fantasy (section)

==Journal Entry 209==

Welcome to Manden.  Not so much a city as a village, and just a pass through on the trade circuit.  Legends say this is the first organized settlement of mankind, hence Man Den.  Currently it's an elven city.  Why?  Some old territory war a hundred years ago.  The city is half wood A-frame houses and the other half is stone building more common with dwarven construction.  It borders on forest from one side and a few miles from the other, seems to start turning into a desert.  Beyond the sandy wastes is apparently another civilization that rarely makes contact, but is where the recurve bow comes from.  Interesting.  Anyways, we're on layover until sunrise, and then head out to Nespidax.  Took a walk around town with Ian.  He's particularly depressed, especially upon hearing how we've had no success in trying to figure out how to get back home and have more or less given up.  Well, I found out the reason.  He's recently married and his wife was pregnant when he left.  The child would have been born by now.  That's fucking depressing.  So why did he come?  Same reason I did.  We weren't entirely in control, some kind of hypnotic pull.  He may have ended up bringing his wife with him if she was home at the time.  I wonder who else left someone behind when we came here, no one's been particularly talkative about our life back home because we're reminded and it starts to hurt.  Better to focus on the here and now.