The trail the two of them followed down the hill was sparingly used so it was overgrown and slow to travel along. But it had the advantage that they could not be seen from the village as they went down to the salt marsh.<br/><br/>The same overgrowth allowed the pair to move along the side of the marsh in cover but it was slow going. The ground underfoot was boggy, the flies buzzed around them incessantly and there was always the dangers of the marsh to watch out for. Was that a log or a dozing lizard, a branch or a snake hanging down to strike.<br/><br/><br/>But eventually they reached their target and they could see the Gnoll ambling along in that tired way a sentry has when he has done his route a thousand times and expects to do it a thousand times more.<br/><br/>He would in about ten minutes pass the undergrowth they where lurking in at a distance of about five to six feet.<br/>