4. Footway Robbery - Waelass

[Interovegas]

[27.2.343]

Andrea ignores the chills running down her spine and quietly slips out of the homestead after waiting for a short while. When she exits she spots the glow of the torch around the bend further along the central path of the ring. Andrea quietly follows behind.

[Andrea (Stealth): 8,3,2 Result: CLOP CLOP CLOP]

For several minutes the noblemare follows after the suspicious person. Eventually the person comes to a long stop in the middle of a long straight stretch of the path about forty paces away from Andrea. They do not turn, they do not speak, nor do they give any other sort of signal that they might be aware of Andrea. Instead, after a motionless two minutes they leap from the ground to the roof of the nearby building. The torch left on the ground below barely illuminates their silhouette as they conduct their unknown mission. Andrea can only tell they are hunched through the thatched roof. Moments later they draw up the outline of a child no older than thirteen and jump down to the fire.

This time, they turn to face Andrea's direction. They kneel down and lay the child before them. Something is certainly amiss. The child still seems sound asleep despite being carried down some twelve paces by an armored giant. The person in armor draws their sword. The torch light emanating from below is weakly reflected as glimmers of orange and gold against the sword. Still, Andrea can tell immediately by the broad body and angular taper towards the point, the sword is made in the Northhold style. But, like the size and armor of this person there is something strange about the sword as well. The fuller of the blade is thinner and deeper than a traditional Northhold broadsword, and small grooves reach from the fuller to both edges of the sword.

The armored mystery holds up their sword point at Andrea.