The group watched the steading from the top of the tor, which was just over a thousand feet from the north-east corner (the outbuilding). They watched for about half and hour, to get the pattern of the guards (which wasn't much of a pattern, but thankfully had gaps). The two armoured hill giants would wander around the steading in a counter-clockwise path. They were poor with their timing and sometimes would both be on the same side at once. Twice, they argued about it.
From the tor, one could only make out the roof of the Watchtower, rising in the south over the main building's roof . But Duvrael's snake made its way down there, and reported that there were two alert giants there.
Approaching would not be quite as easy as it had been the night before. Even if they waited for the two giants to be on the far side, they would have to come down the hill a thousand feet in the line-of-sight of two ogres (at the north and north-east courtyard gates), and within hearing of a third (at the main gate to the south). In addition, all the ogres appeared to be armed with small rock-launching catapults, and had a pile of rocks nearby.
