A soft hiss purred from Elyssa Sunbow's (https://i.imgur.com/A3GvAiy.jpg) lips, deep amber eyes narrowing ever-so-slightly as she knelt...Her namesake in one hand, her keen gaze flitting back and forth across the cracked earth.<br/><br/>Three days. The patrol had been missing for three days, now - Far beyond any reasonable hope that all was well. And so Elyssa - their best tracker - had been sent to find them, or at least some sign of what might've happened to them...<br/><br/>-Though the lovely Elf knew, better than anyone, that their chances weren't good.<br/><br/>"Where<em>are</em>they?" she murmured, almost to herself...Her green silks rustling, as Elyssa drew herself to her full height - Her form momentarily silhouetted against the sun. And *what* a form it was - Her feet arched high on heeled books, her long, lissome legs crossing with a supple<em>scrape</em>, the gorgeous elf made for a very, *very* alluring figure indeed...Her smoke-cloak caressing her slim shoulders, the sleek arch of her back!<br/><br/>Leather creaked, as she paced forward s-l-o-w-l-y...Moving with a dancer's easy grace, her brow furrowing just so. She didn't know the soldiers too well, but she<em>did</em>know they were well-armed and experienced - What could *possibly* have happened to them?<br/><br/>She shook her head, to clear her mind - At this point, speculation was useless. All kinds of rumors had been floating around, some darker than the others...All centering around some kind of abandoned keep up in the mountains. That was the first Elyssa had ever heard of it...But one way or another, she was going to find them!