The carriage soon got underway, the corpse in the coffin, and the duke's daughter in manacles but being transported in relative comfort in the carriage towards the duke's lands. Michael rode inside the carriage alongside Gabriel at the insistence of the guards. "Keep her safe if anything happens." Not that anything had happened, hours later. The trail seemed quiet and peaceful, for most part, but that was up until they had left the city behind.<br/><br/>"We're crossing the stream, so a bit of splashing ahead." The carriage indeed got a fair share of noise from outside, but as they pulled up on the other shore soon after there was a whistling sound before a loud 'thok' sounded out. To Gabriel, it was a familiar sound. An arrow hitting wood, by force.<br/><br/>"Ambush!" One of the guards outside on horseback shouted.<br/><br/>Eight men on horseback guarding these wagons, and the two horses attached to the carriage, plus two more horses behind the carriage for Gabriel and Michael in case things went wrong along the way. What they faced was a group of at least twelve archers in greenish leathers aiming at them from a small copse of trees at the shore, leaving the carriage and its occupants without cover.