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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 2908719" data-attributes="member: 6521">Raven pokes through his memory, but can't come up with any particular details about this band of scarf-wearers or about this region in general. Based on observation, however, these cliffs are littered with caves, most likely the shallow sort that lead to nowhere, and such places are often home to groups of men who have (or believe they have) something to hide from.It's slow progess across the rocky path, although your horses don't seem truly troubled save for a few spots here and there. Oliver keeps his eyes up; for much of the day, there isn't much of interest to be seen but the passing of distant ships on the water, a credit to the old eyes that they're seen at all. If there are other watchmen along this road, they are well-concealed.As the sun runs close to the place where it will set, Oliver notices something else: A brief flash like lightning among the clouds about a hundred yards out over the water. But this is not lightning: There is no bolt, no thunder, just a flash... and birds. Large ones, very large ones, and they are coming quickly closer. There are four of them, one of them larger than the other three, and for a moment it seems like there are eight huddled together in a pack... but no, it's the wings that gave that impression. They each have four wings.(Note that you're about twenty yards from the water's edge, so they're about 360 feet away at the time they appear.)</blockquote>

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