He gave the sergeant a knowing look. "Sir, with all due respect, I do believe I would be safer finishing the mission. You ever seen what a Fae does to someone that has... displeased them? I did, hence why I accepted the job. She walked up, most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and offered someone in the tavern the same job. He politely turned her down, and she politely filleted him like a fish. She was still cleaning the blood off her hand when she came over to me and offered the job. I looked at her, looked at the still screaming adventurer, looked at her blood stained hand, watched her set him on fire, still very polite and calm, and asked how long I would have. She said four months to get her people to the ruins, and then I could go my own way. I know better then to try and outrun the Fae, that is a fools gambit if ever I heard one. The two of them are back at the town, in an inn by now, I suspect. I don't want to have to tell two Fae we got this close, but this army is in the way and we can't make it.<br/><br/>Ever seen what Fae can do with trees to a group like this? I got to watch them do it to a bandit group. They decided to spend the night, with the dismembered corpses in the trees above us. The male thought it was refreshing."<br/><br/>He took the canteen back, and took a pull, letting his hand shake a bit, before he offered it back. "I ain't scared of any man or beast you can name, even fought against a dragon with a couple adventurers once, a white one about the size of a pony. But these things, they look beautiful, but they scare me to the soul. I ain't asking to pass through along the road, I know a bit of forest lore, and can avoid being seen. But what I do want is to get them out of this land as fast as possible. I know you would have patrols in the forest, and I swear this ain't going any further, one sergeant to another. They don't care how they get there, but this close, I can feel they are getting... irritated at the delays and supposed slights they have been getting. I would rather get to the other side without good soldiers dying because they irritated a fae. So how far out are your patrols? We can take a long route around them, where they ain't as thick, and take our chances there."