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Gri, Gruntle watched her ride off

’She is a treasure, is she not?’ Harllo h

’Never seen you so lovestruck before,’ Gruntle said with a sidelong glance

’It’s the unattainable, friend, that’s what’s done forover unrequited adoration I drea between ’e me sick’

’Uhm,’ Keruli said, ’I believe I shall now return to the carriage’

The three Barghast were clearly siblings, with the woiving the down to their shoulders, knotted with bone fetishes All three wore hauberks of holed coins -- the currency ranging from copper to silver and no doubt from some looted hoard, as most of them looked ancient and unfaauntlets covered their hands A guardblock’s worth of weapons acco axes and copper-sheathed long-hafted fighting axes, hook-bladed swords and assorted knives and daggers

They stood on the other side of a sed firepit -- burned down to faintly s coals -- with Stonny still seated on her horse to their left A small heap of jackrabbit bones indicated a aze settled on the Barghast woman ’Our master invites you to travel in our company Do you accept?’

The woe as Harllo drove it to the cae ’Few traders still journey to Capustan,’ she said after a moment ’The trail has become … perilous’

Gruntle frowned ’How so? Have the Pannions sent raiding parties across the river?’

’Not that we have heard No, demons stalk the wild-lands We have been sent to discover the truth of them’

Demons? Hood’s breath ’When did you learn of these deed ’Two, three hed, slowly dis to such tales’

The worinned ’We hope otherwise I am Hetan, and these are my miserable brothers, Cafal and Netok This is Netok’s first hunt since his Deathnight’

Gruntle glanced at the glowering, hulking youth ’I can see his excite on her brother ’You must have sharp eyes’