Oleg starts answering Agria's questions.<br/><br/>"Those blighters first came here 3 months ago. They threatened to burn down the trading post and abduct my wife, if we didn’t agree to hand over all of the furs and trade goods we'd accumulated over the past month from the few hunters and trappers that still live here. They said they'd force themselves upon her and use her for as long as she lasted... I'd have cut their throats then and there if they hadn't had us so badly outnumbered," he shakes his head. "A magewright is no match for a dozen armed robbers."<br/><br/>"Since then, the bandits have returned twice more, each time within an hour of sunrise on the fifteenth day of the month," continues Svetlana, "We've had our “taxes” ready earlier and have to hand them over quickly. The bandits usually seem eager to return to their camp somewhere in the Greenbelt, which makes me think their camp is somewhere about a day's ride away by horse."<br/><br/>"The first time the bandits visited, there were a dozen of them. Ten thugs led by a cloaked man armed with a bow, and a woman who carried two small hatchets. That woman did the majority of the talking on that first trip. She was terrifying, with a sense of humour so black it would make the Shadow look like Dol Arrah.  The way she smiled... she clearly had seen other women raped before, the way she spoke to me, and that frightened me all the more. She also seemed to be particularly sharp and observant, whereas the man seemed to be a bit more crude and foolish. She almost lopped Oleg's arm when they burst in, and she took my wedding ring as payment later for not "shortening his reach." She is most assuredly the most dangerous of the lot."<br/><br/>"We were lucky though," concludes Oleg. "The woman hasn't been back since then. On the second and third visit, only the crude hooded man accompanied the bandits. The second visit, he came with only six other men, while on the third he only came with four. I think he believes he's got us cowed and is letting his guard down. Hopefully, when they visit tomorrow they’ll be even fewer in number, and hopefully the scary woman with the hatchets won’t be with them."<br/>