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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alejandro" data-source="post: 483971" data-attributes="member: 248">Larah crept silently towards the caravan guard, as a wagon behind her shuddered with the grunts and moans of its occupants. The strike of her sap and her victim’s subsequent collapse were masked by the drumbeats pulsing from the crimson big top, twenty strides away. Larah noted with satisfaction that the guard’s companion had been similarly subdued by Ur, and signaled for Bode to approach.“Yes,” Bode hissed, “The lightning sword is indeed hidden in this wagon, but I sense powerful wards on this door. We should be careful.” Grinning, Larah motioned for Ur to stand ready and threw the body of her unconscious victim at the door. Bode groaned inwardly as the door shattered with a thunderclap and lightning arced mercilessly through the guard. Men started shouting, women started screaming, and Larah howled in delight.Hours later and miles away, Larah interrupted Bode with a rude gesture. “We got your sword, didn’t we? And, thanks to your spirits of mist, no one saw us do it. Who’s more important to you: your ‘halfbitch’, or that son-of-a-bitch?” Larah glared, from atop her perch on a standing stone, and spat. “That’s what I thought. So shut up already!”Muttering to himself, Bode turned to find Khan growling at the darkness, hackles raised. What is it, Bode asked.Worgs, Khan replied, and a pair did slink out of the shadows, with cowled riders on their backs.One of the riders pulled back his cowl, revealing a face studded with glittering eyes, and called out, “Do you have the sword, human?”“Yes! Do you have the woman?”“Yes. Give us the sword, and you shall have your morsel.”“I want to see that she is unharmed. Free her, and I shall give you this sword.”“Place the sword on the altar stone, and we shall unbind her. Back away from the stone, and we shall release her.”Wary of treachery, Bode placed the lightning sword on the central altar stone and slowly backed away. The speaker edged his worg into the ring of standing stones, then nodded to his companion, who cut loose a bundle that yelped piteously and began stumbling towards Bode.“Now?” Queried Ur, from atop his standing stone.“Not yet,” Whispered Larah, as she slowly nocked an arrow.The speaker reached the sword even as Bode confirmed that his precious Mother Turnipfoot was, indeed, unharmed. Dismayed by her tears, Bode called upon spirits of earth and vine to bind and hold the worgs and their riders, but writhing bolts of greenish energy suddenly flew out of the darkness to strike him.“Now?” Ur asked, as he aimed his heavy crossbow at the fleeing worgs.“Hell yeah!” Larah howled, and began loosing into the darkness.</blockquote>

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