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"Good. Wait here." The voice replied, not bothering to answer Seyena's question. The footsteps moved away from the door, then came back. Suddenly, Seyena could hear that the door's lock was being tampered with, the tumblers and mechanisms turned with speed and precision. With soft click, the door opened.

A suprisingly short woman was standing in the door. No more than five feet tall and of very slim build. Her dark attire blended with the unlit corridor very well, and only thanks to the moonlight Seyena could see that the woman had a lance in one hand, set of ornate knives at her belt and a tool in her other hand.

The woman passed the lance to Seyena.

"If you can't fight with a lance, the guard had a small sword in at his table as well. There's a sewer drain, I will get you to it, is old and musty and filled with muck but I hope you don't mind getting a little dirty. After you get outside with your boy, head opposite to the mountains, it will take you out of here, by the morning you should be at or near some settlement. I can't tell you my real name, but my pseudonyms for this mission are 'Seyena' and 'Jasmine', whichever you prefer, really."

Hector clung to Seyena's leg.

"Mom, I'm scared..."

Meanwhile...

Success! Valor finally found a cracked wall. It was overgrown with moss and small shrooms. The elements must've worked on it for centuries now. One good whack and it will tumble down... but will it not alert the bandits?

Meanwhile...

The bandits laughed, drank and eaten, slurping on the bones and chewing into the meat of the roasted chickens and pigs and biting into the bread. Of course, all the foodstuffs came from their latest raid - that's it, on Valor's house.

"Hey, boss. We should bring the girl here for some fun, eh?" The tall warrior clad in cloth and leather belched and rubbed his lips before answering:

"Heh, mah mother said, 'first you do feasting, then you do fricking!'" The bandits roared in laughter along with their boss, who swallowed his bite, and then continued.

"And we hav plenty o'food still. And is not loike she is goin' anywhere anytime soon."

"Boss, you should try her first!" The bandits chuckled.

"Dun worry, Migor! I will leave her so wide that even you will fit loike a glove!" The bandits roared in laughter once more, before resuming their feast.


Enemies' Stats!
Allies' Stats!

Lit tiles are completely visible. When you're standing at unlit tile, Enemies that are also standing at unlit tiles won't show up until at range 4 or closer; Jasmine detects enemies at range 8, due to her promotion from Spy.
Detection range respects walls!

"No problem, Adorablehair!"

"Oils! Finally an equal. People using powdered mixtures are hairstyle heathens in my eyes."

"Also, my hair is shaggy since my hair started to show on my head properly. I've been using Iratian Desert Rose oil and the extract of Coastal Goldbloom. From time to time, the oil made from rare Valleylily of Licha. It smells wonderfully right after bath, but is a pain to wash properly."

"How about you?"

"Well, you're adorable and nice hair!" Kosko then reached up and felt a single lock of hair of Noel's not even bothering to ask for consent.

"It has lovely texture and is nicely kept, not to mention strong and healthy. I bet your chest of herbal essences and mixtures to keep your hair so nice is no smaller than perfume chests of noble ladies! Are you using powders or oils?"

And so they embarked on a journey of friendship and- oh wait wrong page...

And so they embarked on a journey toward the dark forest. Valor heard stories about it - pretty devoid of people and with only scarce amount of game animals. But beyond it, there were hills, quickly climbing up as the trees grew taller and darker. And beyond these hills, one would be at the footsteps of the Peaks themselves. But it would take whole day to get to the Peaks from here.

When Valor noticed the change in surroundings, it was dark already. Ilya was still walking in front of him, sometimes trying to run for a moment before the wound got better of her and she hand to slow down. But she never stopped; only few times she slowed down to pacing speed, raised her head to sniff and snort - and resumed her trek.

The moon, a thick crescent, was climbing over the forest when Ilya stopped and laid down, snorting and neighing unhappily. It seemed she couldn't go further without rest.

Behind the trees, though, Valor could see a tiny dot of light in the darkness.

Ilya snorted and then smacked Valor in the face with her muzzle, before taking few steps away. Seemingly she wasn't going to let him remove the arrow, nor even touch her.

Then she neighed again and turned toward the far, far forest to the northwest.

"Neigh!" She snorted afterwards, took few steps and stopped - but only to turn her head at Valor, checking if he is following or not.

Again... there was no one else outside, behind the house.

Suddenly, the noise came from behind the large shed where tools and grain was kept. This time Valor heard the noise clearly - it was a pitiful, quiet neigh.

No one replied.

At least not instantly. From somewhere outside, possibly from behind the house, came some noise; it was a bit of a grunt, snort, and something else. It seemed distant, but then again, it might've been just quiet.