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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 1344350" data-attributes="member: 2012">The Alliance (cont.)The camp near Midnight:“I heard something,” Dabuk stared out into the darkness beyond the campfire. “I’m sure of it.”“You said that an hour ago,” Garth was becoming tired of his son’s mood and suspicion. “You worry too much. Kellin and Hugh can take care of themselves.”“I admit, I made a mistake earlier but I’m telling you I heard something. There!” Dabuk unsheathed his sword and pointed with it into the dark.Garth knew his son’s eye’s were a powerful gift from his mother and had learned to trust them, if not his son’s ears. He stood next to his son peering into the darkness.“Where exactly?” Garth felt blind beyond the light of the fire.“To your left, father. I’d say roughly 40 feet away.” Dabuk could make out the shape, hugging the ground. “It could be a humanoid of some kind, crouched down. Not an ogre though, I would have smelled it a mile away.”“No doubt, not an orc either. Or I would have smelled it three miles away. I’ll wake the others, keep your eyes on it.”Garth silently moved through the small camp waking the others as silently as possible. He was glad that Dvalin was not present, despite the dwarf’s darkvision. The dwarven fighter would have made a huge ruckus.“More than one now.” Dabuk sheathed his sword, readying his bow. “Could be a scouting party. No light source though, must be humanoid.”“Let me see.” Bactra stepped up next to his cousin, his powerful elven sight piercing even further into the darkness. “I see them. There’s another about 5 feet behind them to the right.”“I see it.” Dabuk knocks an arrow to his bow but keeps it leveled at the ground. “And another with it.”“Yes,” Bactra stares out into the darkness in every direction. “I don’t see any others.”“Do you smell it?” Dabuk raised his bow ready for the onslaught to come.“Yes, the bloody dog heads, somehow they sneaked up on us.” Garth drew his blade as the first cry pierced the night. “Damn, I hate that sound!”“Gnolls…” Dabuk shot his first arrow into the night, as the magical sound washed over him, hoping his aim was true.*                                        *                                        *</blockquote>

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