To the soldiers, it was as if a warm breeze blew into camp, and suddenly Doc was standing there, dark and mysterious, and speaking in a strange drawl. There was some commotion (the man in the cape yelped and called for guards) before things calmed down when his intention became clear. After a brief discussion, Doc learned that the caped man was one Captain Caine leading a force of thirty Kingsmen, here to bolster Lord Faldur's forces.
"And to give the Giants what-for, eh?" said Captain Caine, who was eager to hear anything that Doc had to tell him about what had happened in the area so far.
When Doc had a chance to ask around for tobacco, he was dismayed to find that the soldiers narcotic of choice was some kind of chewing root (called "chuff") that made the lips numb and was clearly bad for the teeth. At least they'd
heard of tobacco, which was a relief, but it seemed that it was exclusive to very posh nobility and imported from very far away.
Captain Caine considered it a "vice"; (in fact, Doc had to be careful not to get the common soldiers caught by him for their chuff-use, which was forbidden). Finding a smoke was going to be harder than Doc would like.
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Kahru swooped past the guard in the watchtower and then through a space in the stairs riser (easy enough as they were heighted for giants). He landed softly on an oak cross-beam that supported the watchtower above, where he could see into the roofed yard that was housed the steading's main gate. Watching the big doors were four ogres (very probably a family of them - an Ogre, an Ogress, and two youths).
His attention was drawn to the Ogress, who had, hanging from her belt, a very familiar item:
a small rune-inscribed whistle.
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I'm very sorry, but I forgot (and just spent 20 minutes trying to find, to no avail) what exactly the object that Kahru is looking for that was stolen by ogres. She has it, though!
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