Jess joined the others walking out of the vehicles and around the village. She kept her M16 at the ready, finger close by the trigger as she looked up into the trees, half expecting spiders to drop out and carry everyone off but it was all quiet.<br/><br/>All around them it was the opposite of quiet, birds chirped and other small animals ran around, it gave some of the soldiers a sense of safety since it at least meant there was nothing there that frightened the animals.<br/><br/>Jess continued to walk through the village, making sure she was within sight of the others and could see them. She walked around a large fire pit that had some smashed and broken pottery around it as well as old food, the maggots were not complaining though.<br/><br/>She halted when she spotted what looked like some kind of ornament made of wood and animal bone, it was covered in the arrows the orcs liked to use, large, black with a curved arrowhead that made it painful and difficult to remove once I was inside of a person's body.<br/><br/><em>'I wonder if its a race we haven't encountered yet.</em>' She mused and continued looking, moving towards the huts nearby.