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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Hobbes" data-source="post: 1437251" data-attributes="member: 8623">  Ack!  Mein leiben!  Sorry, have been busy, will be good from now on...The night and the next day progress uneventfully as you end the day rather early, just on the edge of the forest, rather than spending the evening within it.  Instead, you stay at an inn much like the last in which Tylkin takes a room and you are left to make your own accomodations on the floor or outside, as is your want.  Tylkin spends his free time during the day chatting idly with other merchants and reading- and occasionally scribbling in- a slim leather-bound book.  As the evening progresses, he heads, chatting with another merchant, to the hallway that leads to the rooms in the back.  The rest stop, incidentally, provides Jaan (or anyone else) ample time to practice their archery.You leave at nine the next day- earlier than Tylkin usually starts, but much later than most of the other merchants, who rise as much as three hours earlier- and head into the forest.  "It will be a full day's ride, and then some, to get to the other side of the forest," Tylkin informs you from his position sitting on the wagon.  "Keep a weather eye out, as you may well have to earn your pay.  It is, as promised, a flat and gently winding road cut through a hilly and predominantly evergreen forest.  Visibility is limited to either side of the road, although you can see for a good ways on in front of and behind you.It's about noon- you're less than halfway through the forest or your day of travels- when Ioleta and Velbrik both catch a glimpse of something.  Ioleta only out of the corner of her eye, a blob- maybe two?  But Velbrik is looking full on in that direction and sees some eighty feet away, breifly framed by two large trunks and backed by a sunlit rock outcropping, the shape of a man carrying a bow.  Only for a moment, and then it is gone.</blockquote>

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