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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 2200889" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Thusly confused, the heirs prepare their mounts and themselves for the journey.  Samira slips on ahead, using stealth and graceful movement honed by years of experience to elude the guards.  The fact that most are somewhat distracted by the movement of the heirs helps.  Omran and Tarek join the main group and prepare themselves.  In about a half-hour all is in readiness, and the group sets out across the sands.*OOC - Could I get a quick marching order and any precautions you guys are taking?  Marid will stay near the middle, Kadar's guards will play rear guard, and Suhayb and Omran will range out to the sides.  The moon has not yet risen, but it isn't far from it.Samira and Shalah: [sblock]You glide across the sand, keeping to shadows, every sense sharp.  Samira's short journey to Kadar's tent has shown you the perils of the desert, and though it was easily dispatched, they are now only two.  Shalah has a better inkling of what dangers they might face, and is accordingly watchful.  You slink along the ridge and go where Marid told you.  Far ahead you can see reddish glow on the horizon.  The cold at night is quite as intense as the heat, and even with moving you soon becomes chilled.  However that does not prevent you from spotting something in the lee of a large boulder on your path.  There, reflected in the starlight, is a strange glittering.  You've seen this before, though on a much smaller scale, in the harem and in the city.  Scorpians, big ones.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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