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Message: <blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1432118" data-attributes="member: 9744">Chapter 3 And Away We GoLady Toujin bent over the bed and whispered some words in to Sir Vamish's ear. The knight's eyes flickered open briefly in alarm and then softened as he recognised the countenance of the priestess of Bahamut. He sighed in relief and tried to cough. Kriskrafts helped him to drink some water and the knight quickly glanced at everyone gathered around his bed. He'd certainly not expected to wake up to such a reception. In fact, at one point in the battle he'd not expected to wake up again at all.Cade pressed his finger gently against the side of Sir Vamish's head and allowed the knights thoughts to open up to him like a blooming flower. The halfling could see the knights of the Order of Planar Militants giving chase to the Anakharim and following them in to a series of canyons. The vile knights had struck lighting fast against the modrons and had succeeded in carrying off a number of modron captives.Sir Vamish and his men rode in to a trap, following a group of Anakharim in to a dead-end canyon. A larger force of evil knights blocked them in and for awhile all seemed lost. Sir Vamish led several charges to try and force their way out of the canyon and during the final and successful break for freedom he had fallen. Fortunately some of his men had been able to rescue him and the defeated knight rode back quickly to the safety of Ecstasy.Cade tried to find out anything else about the Anakharim and saw two things that bothered Sir Vamish greatly. The first was that he'd heard the yeth hounds actually caused fear in the lawful and orderly modrons. This was something that  the knight had not expected and the other guards had informed him that the yeth hounds were used during night-time raids.The other thing that Sir Vamish remembered clearly was that the evil knight who struck him down after he'd been pulled from his horse had a modron arm instead of a normal arm. The Anakharim knight had super-human strength in his mechanical arm and he'd been dreaming about that repeatedly until Silvermoon had placed the blanket of Tomeri over him."Did any of them attack the modrons?" Littleby asked after Cade had shared with the others the information that he'd gleaned from Sir Vamish's mind."You know what we discussed before about taking bits out of modrons and keeping it alive." Serena commented referring to a discussion previously."I have never heard of such a thing," Lady Toujin said, appalled at the idea."I have," the seer stated grimly. "I have discussed it with Littleby before," she explained."That's horrible,” the priestess of Bahamut exclaimed. “That must mean that they are keeping the modrons alive somehow.""Sounds about right. I think that either some of the pieces of the puzzle are coming together or some very nasty coincidences are occurring." Serena glanced over at Littleby and saw from the expression on his face that he was thinking along the same lines."It would be an outstanding red herring," Littleby said agreeing with Serena's assessment of the situation."Well I like to say, keep moving!" Cade was eager to be off and see the modrons up close and personal. He'd heard numerous tales in the Cage about the modrons since they'd started early. Especially from members of the Doomguard faction who hinted at having a grand scheme to end the march once and for all.“You're a quite mad Cade," Serena said, rolling her eyes in exasperation."No, I'm a halfling." Cade replied with a big smile."Whatever," Serena could not help but smile. She became more serious at the though of riding out to do battle with the Anakharim and addressed her companion. "Zakar.""Yes my Lady," the hound archon appeared moved by the sacrifice Sir Vamish had made for his men."You have the scent?" the seer asked sweetly."Yes my Lady," the hound archon confirmed."Then we should probably follow it," she stated and got ready to leave the infirmary. She embraced both Silvermoon and Kriskrafts warmly, saddened at the thought of leaving them so soon after meeting them. However, she felt that she would be seeing them again soon.Once outside the companions joined the ranks of the knights belonging to the Order of Planar Militants. They were each provided with a war horse and Caleb chose to ride in a chariot together with Andrew.As the two hundred men and women rode out again to safeguard the modrons and the people following the march, the townsfolk came out to wave them farewell. Ebenezer the Good, mayor of the town, stood on an elevated wooden platform and threw down flowers to the departing knights.As the mephits flew past the wooden platform the burst out in to song. “He's a good. He's a good.” They sang off key, the three voices clashing horribly. ”He's Ebenezer good.” A slaad choir would have been more pleasing to listen to.The knight rode for the remainder of the day and caught up with the great modron march. Some of the other groups of knights who had remained with the march were relieved of their guarding duties as the replacements had arrived. Serena and her friends set up camp for the night and prepared to ride out in the morning to catch up with the ceaseless marching modrons.</blockquote>

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