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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ladybird" data-source="post: 2940172" data-attributes="member: 10689">The next morning, the Hanalians rose early and went off to the south, while the Canberrians continued to follow the slavers’ tracks west. They parted on relatively good terms – civil, if not friendly – and went their separate ways.Varya soared high into the air, flying up with strong flaps of her newly-healed wings to scout ahead of the group. She didn’t realize how far away she had gotten until she spotted the tiny forms of the Hanalians, and wheeled to follow them for a few miles.Varya didn’t see the bandits until they were almost upon them. Out of the hills burst at least thirty bandits, roaring incoherently. The Hanalians turned to fight, and Varya sped back to her own group as quickly as she could.It was still too late by the time the others got there. All of the Hanalians were dead.”At least they fought back,” Jet said gruffly as he surveyed the bloody scene. “Took out twenty – no, twenty-one of the bandits.”Gyles looked up from where he was poking at one of the bandits’ bodies. “It looks like the rest of them fled that way,” he said, jerking his head towards a set of dim tracks leading off to the southwest. “Look at this - mismatched armor, shoddy weapons. The only way they were able to defeat the Hanalians was through superior numbers.”Jet nodded in agreement. “They must have been refugees who had turned to banditry.”Everything of value had been taken off of the dead knights, but Kit searched anyway. Alessandre, going about the sad business of assembling the Hanalians’ bodies for burial, gave her a reproachful look. “Bandits might not necessarily have taken documents,” Kit told her. “If the Hanalians were carrying any more information, I want to know.” And I may have to get Honore to read it to me, but I want to know. There were no documents, but on the lieutenant’s body, Kit found a small black stone. The second her hand touched it, she could feel the psionic resonance. Hm. That’s not the way the elves’ crystals felt. I wonder if that was how he was talking to his lord. Surreptitiously, she slipped the stone into her pocket. Then she reached over to pull Sir Bernard’s cloak over his face and made a brief sign of Paranswarm over his body, and stood aside to let Alessandre and Honore continue their work.</blockquote>

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