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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mahiro Satsu" data-source="post: 304683" data-attributes="member: 4970">an episode from the journey back to EveningstarThe party had made camp in a previous spot, the top of a small hillock in a lightly wooded section of the gorge, overlooking the Starwater River. The weather had been cold and grim all day.After a nice supper of fresh fish, as the party is bedding down for the night after determining the watch, they heard the howling of wolves off to the north, as they had most other nights in the gorge. This night those wolves sounded a bit closer perhaps, but they faded into silence before midnight.The hours past...until Corwyn and Saeita's watch in the early morning hours.The two of them hear the keening cry of a sparrowhawk from the north in the gorge. A chorus of angry barking at about the same loudness explodes at the same moment...and fades just as quickly. The keening of the sparrowhawk is continuous in the night sky, growing louder and louder still...seeming to get closer.Corwyn whispers to Saeita, "I've got a bad feeling about those wolves."The sparrowhawk's cries become louder still, its harsh voice echoing off the limestone walls of the gorge.They both are able to see the faint silhouette of the hawk. It circled about them.Corwyn says, "Hmm, do you think, Saeita, that the hawk might be a familiar?""Could be," responds Saeita, "I'm going to wake the ranger, something seems odd here."At the risk of seeming like a scaredy cat, Corwyn begins to awaken the others as well.Van wakes up cranky. "What's up? Is it morning already? Damn, I hope it's not going to rain again."Saeita hears a crunch in the underbrush below the camp. "Shhhh," she says to the ranger. "I'm going to have a look."As the others wake up, only Corwyn has the presence of mind to put on his armor. Daziel hands Van the magical spectacles so he can see in the dark. Saeita crouches down and peaks over the edge of the camp.Daziel begins to don her armor, as Van looks around the camp. Saeita sees dark shapes, large shapes, moving through the underbrush down the hillock's side.Van whispers, "Take cover," as he hears them...approaching from behind...then, with a great snarl, two massive wolves explode into the clearing of the camp, one gray and one black.</blockquote>

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