The villagers in Deepwater had found her outside the tavern with a weird looking man who spoke with an eerie voice. Somehow he had taken control of Tara, it had seemed at the time. Some of the villagers had spoken to Tara then and she had fallen unconcious with a thump to the ground. An elf had been summoned to try and heal her, and he had done his best to return her to normal. Muffins had also played a role in this, it seemed the young Tara's greed for warm muffins had overcome the power that controlled her.

Tara was happilly at home for about a week after that initial event, when again the weird looking man came to town. The man seemed to exercise some form of control over her. Tara became crazed and in the end she was knocked out by Burrator as she had tried to kill him when he got in her way after she refused to listen to him. After restraining the young lass in the back room of the Owl's Eye and also finding another unconcious man, some drunk carpenter, help requests were sent out. Michael the Monk responded to these calls for help. After talking to Tara for some time, once again the control over her subsided and she returned to her normal self, this process was once again speeded up with the judicious use of muffins. The drunkard had similarly regained conciousness to a degree with the aid of some alcohol.

The weird looking man had been seen a few times since those encounters, and some say he is a forest Hermit. No one knows for sure if he had something to do with Tara's disappearance. Tara is suspicious of him and a little frightened since she thinks he is following her around from time to time, but there is no evidence of any wrong doing on his part. His behaviour seems a little strange, but no stranger than that of any other Hermit.

Alexandra was of course overjoyed to have his little sister back at home. She would no doubt moan about his singing, and leave the house looking like a frenzied Wyvern's nest, but none of that mattered to him now that she was back at home. He felt that there was something a little different about her, when he had last seen her before her disappearance she had still been a little girl in his mind. Now she seemed somehow different. She was still careless and go-happy, but there was definitely something different...