"Why, it would never cross any gentleman's mind to take advantage of a lady bathing," Ledude claimed with mock indignation, "and never will you find a finer specimen of a gentleman than right here in front of your eyes."  He grinned to let Rayne know it was all in good fun as he passed the panties back into her possession.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>They made their way just outside the palisade of Melangwi Outpost, and down to the bank of the nearby river, still close enough to the outpost that it should be relatively safe and monster spawns rare. The only other people who could see them were the sentries on the watchtowers, and like the rest of the NPCs all along, they ignored the players' existence for the most part.<br/><br/>The sun had completely set and the sky was illuminated by the light of the moons and the stars. Trees became solid black shadows that blocked out the painting of heavenly lights in the canvass of the night sky. Crickets chirped and frogs croaked, the sounds of their calls coming from all directions.<br/><br/>"I'll keep watch from here, so leave your clothes here," Ledude announced from a large, flat-topped rock on the bank of the river. He sat down and produced a torch from his inventory that burned and produced light, but no heat or smoke. After being jammed into a crack in the rock so that the torch stood by itself, its light reflected off the flowing waters, warm yellows contrasting with the cool whites of the moons.