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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 6549782" data-attributes="member: 34958"><p>The next four days are slow progress as a light, but steady rain slicks up the road.  You pass a few travelers along the way; usually the poorer sort but once you passed a procession carrying a higher caste nobleman in a closed scarlet litter.  During this happenstance the group followed Yolkana's lead and bowed low in prostration until the procession passed.  The first two night were spent in well-kept yurts along the way that catered to merchants travelling the Emperor's road to and from Jakalla.  However, such establishments became more rare on the third and fourth nights, forcing you to break out your portable tents from your mules.  On the fifth day you were even further from civilized lands and the road still had not recovered from the rains the days previous, though the sun was shining bright and making you sweat heavily in the heat.  Ahead of you, just off the road, could be seen a green-colored litter.  This one was tilted up on its side and two armored mercenaries could be seen face-down in the muddy grass, their bodies slightly swelled and covered in flies.  Oddly, no signs of the porters can be seen, and you can't see inside the closed litter in order to observe any survivors inside.  Yolkana does not progress any closer to the litter, nor does she says anything (hell, she hardly said anything during the entire trip so far).  But she does grip her bone sword and starts staring at the nearby tree line.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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