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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monboesen" data-source="post: 922634" data-attributes="member: 4647">Jonas an Ran watched the two men lying on the hill. From their vantage point the men had a free view of the village. Their horses were tethered further down the hill, hidden from the glances of the sentries walking the villages palisade wall.“Looks like soldiers to me” Jonas rumbled.“Do you know whose”“Likely Duke Bookleys. He’s the current ruler here and got plenty of reason to worry if what those women told is right”“I guess so, lets head back”They crept away from their hiding place in the undergrowth. The merchant surprisingly silent for his bulk and the witchhunter a mere shadow besides him.Half a mile away at the small camp Manolis thoughts streamed by as clouds in a angry storm. What should he do. The witchhunters had found him, she was going to kill him for sure. Or at least bring him back to justice in Falston. How could he get away. Had Jonas fooled her with his lies. The uneasy thoughts kept him on his feet, wandering restless around in the camp.He could make a run for it. Glancing at the armored knight he dismissed the thought. Gabriel was kind enough, in other circumstances Manolis would probably have liked the one eyed knight. But even though he had a pleasant nature and had carefully kept conversation to neutral subjects he would not let Manolis go. He had sworn so to the witchhunter and knights never broke their word. For now he would just have to play along, trusting Jonas to keep him out of danger, afterall he had been paid handsomely to do just that. At least the witchhunter had no legal authority in these lands and seemed unwilling to act before she was sure of who he was.Gabriel let his eye follow  the roaming man, he was guilty of something allright. It was written all over his face. Gabriel didn’t take him for a killer though and he was usually a good judge of character. Could be he was guilty, but of another crime than Ran suspected. “Take it easy Colill, I don’t think she will hurt you unless you do something stupid. Come sit down with me and have a bite to eat” Manolis just shook his head.“I’m not hungry”“Do you think that it’s true what the women in Takon told us. That this Javid just sauntered in and sweet talked all the men to follow him”Absentmindedly Manolis answered.“He probably used the same kind of spell as on the merchants, a mind dulling one. They saw him as a friend or leader… err…. I mean…. err” With his head as read as his hair he shut his mouth and shot the knight a horrified look.“That seems likely, but why” half smiled Gabriel.Manolis kept his silence and sat down with his back to the knight.</blockquote>

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