Tolan stands watch and lends a hand as needed as the graves are excavated. It ill suits him to disturb the dead, but these mounds are clearly recent, and seem more akin to hiding places for bodies than proper graves. He points at the red surcoat.
"This one, at least, if definitely from Mirabar. But I see nothing that could qualify as the missing 'mote' and four seems a small number for a caravan. I think we must assume that this is not all who are missing. Moreover, this is an unlikely place for the caravan to be passing through. They were probably brought here from elsewhere."
He turns north and faces the tower.
"I believe the tower's inhabitants fly these hills, they may have seen something. But I have also seen postings for recovery of 'lost' family members who have joined their numbers and cut all ties. They are more than just hunters."
He starts making a circuit of the area, looking for any signs of a struggle, or tracks implying a direction from which these four came, or where dragged.
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