Next door realm...in trouble!
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 1504
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Unfortunately the realm next door had, just yesterday, been taken over by
the evil step=prince Frank. Frank had hired legions of mercs to supplement the mutinous forces he had spent years building. Of course, not all of the land was under Frank's control. Unfortunately the border Andrea gaily rode over was. The attackers came upon her while she stopped to rest by a pond. Her horse, Stalllion, was too far away, taking a drink. Twelve of them died that sunny afternoon. Her horse perished also, an errant arrow driving itself deep into the animal's strong, proud and uncannily intelligent brain. The only consolation was that Stallion's death had been quick. With that, Andrea leaned back in the metal cage, tried not to think about her dozens of bruise, six cuts and her dislocated left arm. She wanted to pass out but knew it was a bad idea. The visiting Tzu, ever a favorite at her family's estate, had imparted many lessons of war. One of them, if she recalled correctly, was that intelligence was paramount in things like this. Of course, none of the men walking near her were saying anything. She could still tell a lot. The uniforms didn't match, for one thing. Their bare arms were light, not tanned. This told her that these men were not farmers. Most of the surrounding armies were farmers. Nomads had been reported in the Shreken mountains, which rose on the boundaries of many countries, including hers and this one. A short man in blue had a jagged scar on his lower left cheek. The redness and the prominence told Andrea these men had little access to the healing arts of a town magician. A proper town magician, one with a building and nurses and supplies couldn't wipe a scar away, naturally, but could make it more subtle. Andrea looked to her left and down, at the wooden sides of the cart. Now this was suprising. Someone had taken care of this car, polishing it and painting it and polishing it. It had the smoothness indicative of army soldiers being given make-work tasks, such as cart polishing, for punishment. Did members of this realm's army join these brigands? (Editor's note: As we know, they did but Andrea didn't know this at the moment). Suddenly...
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11/10/2002 10:09:26 PM
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