(YBA) Cait Sith in the Passage of Death (Pt. 2)

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The story so far...
Cait receaved his assignment from the Director General of the Imperial Forces: To find a way through the passage of death and to infiltrate the rebel camp camped on the other side. Once there, he is to kidnap the leader of the rebel army, the self-styled King, Meng Huo.

After recieving this assignment Cait travelled upriver (defeating some bandits along the way) toward the pass. Gaining entrance to the Passage he found himself in an accursed valley swarming with terrible insects and humid, hot weather. Defeating a few creatures along the way, including some bandits, Cait gained the advise of an ancestral spirit who served the empire hundreds of years ago. Entering an enchanted wood, he defeated some Naiads and a Water Elemental, who told him how to lift the curse of the valley. Cait is now trying to find a way to clear four cursed pools and clean the air of the poisonous insects by defeating the water elemental's four siblings. Only after cleansing the valley thus will the imperial army be able to pass through.

Cait has recently suffered a setback as he was defeated in single combat with Zhang Bao, another Imperial warrior who felt insulted by not being chosen for the mission.

Bao and Cait are now in a kind of race or competition to solve the riddles of the pass....

Cait finds himself on the top of a green hill. To the north the hills continue to become more rocky. To the south the valley quickly becomes unclimbable. To the west is the forest that Cait has left behind. To the east there are more hills. The weather is hot and insects swarm around Cait, stinging and biting him. The longer he stays in one place the more he is bitten.

It is the Day of the Spider
 

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Telling himself that he must manufacture some balm to ward of insects when he camps next, he begins to head east.

As he walks he practices his shove spell on the largest of the bugs.
 

The bugs continue to swarm around Cait. The sun is high in the air and the fog has dissipated <sic>.

As time passes you feel that more bugs are swarming you than before...
 

Cait Sith wraps his traveling cloak about his head and neck as well as he can, exposing only his eyes and continues to trudge eastwardly.
 



It sounds like they are changing positions and perhaps getting closer. Whenever Cait tries to spot where the sounds are coming from she can't see anything. Of course, the insects aren't helping either...
 


The hills become more rocky and soon Cait finds himself jumping from large rock to large rock. The bird calls are concentrated from some point behind Cait. The grow louder and more insistant...
 

Cait Sith slows down and begins moving in a more easterly direction again. As he leaps from rock to rock, he keeps an eye out for a suitable hiding place.
 

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