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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1181307" data-attributes="member: 11574">Tharhack disrobes the bandit that's tied up by the tent, and asks Alriand to dress the female, after that he'll check out her injuries. "I can't hold this guy forever Tharhack, what do you want to do with him?" Rebrey asks."Beat him into unconsciousness. Here use this burning log" Tharhack responds handing Rebrey a still burning piece of wood from the campfire. Rebrey stares at the wood for a moment a little taken aback by Tharhack's comment. Then shrugs and beats the bandit senseless. Rebrey leaves the bandit knocked out on the ground, and goes to retrieve the halfling child and the kobold from their hiding places. When he returns Tharhack and Alriand are attending to the women in the tent. Rebrey checks to make sure that the bandit he knocked out is still unconscious, then checks to make sure the other bandit is uncomfortable naked and tied up. Rebrey searches the biggest tent and finds some cooked pig and apples. Digging in to the food himself and sharing an apple with the kobold. Alriand pulls off the sack covering the female's head, finding her mouth gagged with a big piece of meat. The woman's eyes were a deep green, reminding Alriand of the color of spring. Alriand found herself just staring into the woman's eyes losing herself in the color. She didn't even realize Tharhack had entered until he shook her shoulder snapping her out of her trancelike state. "huh, oh I'm sorry. I must have been daydreaming" Alriand responds as she removes the gag from the woman's mouth, it's then that Alriand notices the deep almost blood red color of the woman's hair. Similar to the color of fall, her hair even sounded like leaves rustling in a breeze as her hair falls from the sack to land on her shoulders. "Thank you." The voice sounded like it was once a beautiful instrument but has been played far to hard, and screamed for far too long. Tharhack uses his cure light wounds spells to heal the woman as best he can. Tharhack asks how the woman came to be in the hands of these bandits. She relates how she was gathering berries for her mother when she was approached by a couple of the men. Her mother had taught her how to entrance men so as to protect herself. She did fine with the first two, but then more came. She couldn't entrance any more of them, and she was overpowered. All she saw after that was the inside of that sack. She can't tell how many days she's been prisoner, the only thing she had to eat was the piece of pig the gagged her with. When it rained they would leave her outside, and she sapped what little water she could from the damp sack. "Are you a dryad?" Alriand asks"No, my mother was a nature spirit, I lack that beauty of my mother." Replies the woman."What's your name?" Tharhack inquires"Xanoniel Enialril." Replies Xanoniel"Enialril? That's an elven court name." Alriand answers."My father was an elven prince, who thought he could persuade my mother to be his betrothed. For a time my mother enjoyed his company, but she refused to leave her home and her life tree. In the end his lust for her, and her inability to return with him, drove him mad. He committed suicide, and my mother buried him next to her tree. His essence flows through her home and the forrest was a happy place until." Xanoniel voice trails off as a tear forms in her green eyes."I heard the prince meant missing, I never suspected...." Alriand gets lost in thought."Until what Xanoniel?" Tharhack inquires."Until they killed my mother." Xanoniel breaks down into sobs.Hearing the conversation and then the crying, Rebrey goes to check out what's taking so long in the tent. "Hey you guys, if you wanted some alone time, could you do it later?" Rebrey calls out as he lifts the flap of the tent entrance "By Tyr." is all Rebrey gets out after seeing Xanoniel. "Um, there's food in the next tent." Rebrey manages to get out. "Good bring some here, any fruits and water will suffice." Tharhack tells Rebrey."Right, I'll.... go..... get... some..." Rebrey slowly answers and then backs out of the tent.Alriand sits stunned while Rebrey returns with food for everyone's hungry stomachs. Rebrey tries to chat up Xanoniel, but only makes a fool of himself. Tharhack leaves the tent and checks on the naked bandit, since he's starting to get a little too cold, he moves him closer to the fire. Tharhack then releases the halfling's body from it's chains, and replaces it with that of the unconscious bandit. Tharhack then retrieves the whip the bandit was using, and notices little teeth all along one side of the whip. He then feels the wounds left by the whip on his own body, and realizes the extent of the torture the halfling went through. Tharhack then throws the whip into the fire, and goes to search the main tent for any clues as to who the halfling is, where the bandits came from, and what they intended on doing next.Rebrey tries to snap Alriand out of her deep thoughts, but only manages to bring her eyes up to those of Xanoniel's. "Do you realize what you are an heir to?"</blockquote>

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