<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/03/RosaCandlemass.jpg)</div>Rosa nodded along with Thea at her assessment of the camp. "Quite right. We haven't been drawing attention to ourselves, but nor have we tried to hide. They don't sound like honest travellers. And if they're ahead of us, moving southeast, then... oh no." The colour drained from Rosa's face. "What if you're right? What if they are bandits, and they're heading for the plateau? What if they're already there?"<br/><br/>She fretted and looked as if she wanted to pick up the pace, but held herself back. "The holy site is well protected, though. The nuns themselves are pacifists, but there is an order of warriors that protect them, twelve women strong. A band of half a dozen bandits shouldn't be able to threaten them." She didn't seem entirely convinced of her own reasoning, but she calmed a little.<br/><br/>Rosa swallowed and did her best to breathe normally when Kye brought her news. "We're being shadowed? By the same group, do you suppose? Thea, what should we do?"