(urth) short story 11: trip,trap

[Marc Aramini]

The blood is of course the traki's.  It is on Finch because Finch used the sword to kill him.  There are slashing wounds on the troll but no "piercing" stabs because the tip of the sword does not work, which matches with the description of his broken sword in the spirit world.

The spirit world is more objective than the actual material world, and it is reached by a meeting of the minds instead of ego.