text: [Themes: fantasy, fantasy]
  
  As night falls over the fort you have visited and gotten your faces and papers known by many of the guards under the pretense of exploring. You all finish a late dinner in the mess hall then head back to your bunks where you have prepared your gear and hidden the documents. You quickly prepare, check Amelia's gift is in good working order and all head out.
  
  Getting around the fort is easy for you now thanks to the leg work earlier in the day and any guards that don't recognize you let you pass after seeing your papers. You all make it to the gate without incident, however once you reach it you realize that the initial panic from receiving the news is still in full swing. You quickly think that you could slip out behind a squad going on patrol since the gate is in chaos but you are only in army issue tunics rather than full armor.
  
  > pretend to be a repair squad, you are in the third company afterall and that is one of their jobs.
  You realize that four men in army tunics would never get away with joining a fully armored patrol so approach the guard your selves, he seems harassed and overworked so you try to use it to your advantage. "Repair squad from the third." you announce as you hand over all of your papers at once. The man gives you all a quick glance, then obviously trying to work as quickly as possible gives the top sheet a quick glance. He sees that it has the fort commanders own signature and 3rd Company across the front so he doesn't read further and just waves you through. "Don't take too long out there, lockdown starts fully in a few hours!".
  
  Having a guard shout you through in such a loud manner makes the rest less inclined to bother checking your paperwork so you get through the gateway without incident.
  
  Your all thinking that this is going rather well so pick up the pace and head towards the border lines.
  
  > The Perimeter
  You reach where you think the border should be and almost shout for joy when one of your men holds up his hand and indicates to the side. You stop to listen and hear an approaching patrol. Its only a small one by the sound of it which means six men but they will still attack you on sight if they need too. You all quickly look for a place to hide but its too late and they come into view through some trees.
  
  They immediately draw weapons and ask for identification. You decide to go with the same bluff as before so try to act clam and keep your hands away from your sword. You pull out your papers and hand them over. "We are third company, they sent us out here to do some repairs before the lockdown began."
  
  The other soldiers seems to relax their weapons a bit at your attitude and willingness to hand over your papers. You see some confusion growing on the face of the man reading the papers and realize that he knows your papers don't allow you to leave the fort. He is about to speak when your men act first, drawing hidden knives and taking down two of the parole before they can react.
  
  From there it turns into a bloodbath, it seems the men sent with you are very skilled fighters, but they aren't wearing armor and the patrol is. You are almost killed by a sword swing but the man pauses in surprise as his blade bounces off the hidden mail coat. You whisper a quick thank you to Amelia for her gift and saving your life as you use the flat of your blade to knock the man unconscious.
  
  You look up to realize its over, two of your company is dead and the other survivor slightly wounded, three of the patrol are dead and the others wounded or unconscious. Saddened that they had to die you pause but the other man drags you away "It wasn't our choice and it had to be done, now move or the rest will catch us!" You listen and indeed hear the sounds of other men moving in your direction so you both run across the border and into Carn's territory.
  
  > Carn
  You are still a long journey away from Carn but the other man takes charge and leads you at a run for several miles. You both run until you finally collapse against a large rock outcrop. You help him bind up his wounds but he has lost a lot of blood and the run hasn't helped, he quickly explains that a cart will arrive here soon and that it will take you to Carn.
  
  You let him drift off to sleep and keep watch until dawn when you see a small farmers cart coming near. You give the signal and it turns to come pick you up. You jog back over to the other man but realize he passes away from blood loss during the night. Your the last one left so you take the man's documents along with your own and get in the cart. The driver passes back some non-descript clothing and you quickly get out of your military tunic.
  
  The trip from there involves a change of carts every few days and finally a carriage for the last few days to enable you to go faster. Eventually you reach Carn and are escorted to the King.
  
  > The King
  Once in Carn you are taken before the king and you make your report after presenting the documents. King Hader immediately sends them to his scribes who make several copies and over the next few days they are smuggled out of Carn to all near-by kingdoms. King Hader also sends several emissaries to your City and is finally granted a cease-fire almost before the war even begins when one of your kings high council personally intervenes and tells the king that the council had been blocking Carn's requests and emissaries from reaching him. The Councilor was in fact your proprietor, the Owner, and he was able to tell the king some of the truth of the situation.
  
  Once the king knows he was being lied to he immediately took control of the military and ordered an end to all hostile actions. He confined the council to chambers under guard until he had found out the truth. And once the truth came out the entire council bar one was hung from the city gates. Peace was made between the two kingdoms.
  
  King Hader of Carn finally sent you back to your home city once the situation was fully resolved, he even bestowed some land and a house on the shore upon you as a reward. You are unsure what to expect from your own king upon your return but he is as welcoming as Hader had been. Once he learns that you had been given land on the coast beside the border he immediately gave you an equal plot on his side of the border meaning you now had a large holding of forest, farm and coastline in your name that spanned the borders of the two kingdoms. The man you knew as the owner is explained to have been Councilor Fenshield, one of the newest councilors in the city but due to his mines, one of the richest. He greets you warmly and invites you to his house again to recover, which you quickly accept.
  
  There Amelia is waiting for you, she immediately rushes to you and gives you a kiss while saying how she always knew you would be successful, once you explain how her gift saved your life she almost cries before just hugging you for a few minutes.
  
  Its not many days before you are engaged and only weeks before you and Amelia are married. The wedding is held on your new lands which could only be described as substantial and the house upon them is more of an old castle than just a house. Councilor Fenshield brought many of his scribes and accountants with him and by the time the wedding happens your land is already turning over a profit from the farmers and fishermen on it.
  
  I'd say you lived happily ever after at this point, but that isn't always the case is it? lets just say you did have a few happy years, but after that what happens is up to you to choose.