Ulaw and Ashran traded cocky and glances which were mutually contradictory in their similarity, as if each regarded Lady's rebuke of their bickering as a victory over the other. They listened silently, though, and looked up at Lady, their faces connoting as they often did a slight begrudging of being faced with a female who was both several heads taller, and their present commander.<br/><br/>Ulaw glanced along the trail, "Heavy horses on such ground shall be easy enough to follow. And no doubt the clanking of the knights audible for am mile!."<br/><br/>Ashram responded to Lady, with a smile and a dark gleam in his eyes, "It sounds most fruitful and quite entertaining,<em>m'</em>Lady," he laced a small bit of sarcasm into the address. "Perhaps a few images to give the appearance of aggression and ensure they bring down the oh-so-high-and-mighty gauntlet of law."<br/><br/>Ulaw quietly ground his knuckles into the other palm, and smiled thinly at the wizard. "You may trust that the gauntlet of law is mighty indeed, mage."<br/><br/>Ashram's smile was even thinner; he could've been gagged by one of his own long greasy hairs. "Of<em>Cormyrean</em>, law then. Perhaps a faux-fireball bursting before them, or a little horde of intangible orcs or...oh, 'twill be entertaining indeed."<br/><br/>Pennae had been looking thoughtfully at some of the tree trunks. "I'll loose an arrow or two; 'tis not like to fell a knight from a distance."<br/><br/>"Distance..." Ulaw seemed to sneer at some inward thought, pressing fist and palm again. "Curses shall suffice to hurl; no need for spells for such a pretense, though," he looked up at Lady again, "I do have a Sending to hurl you, this eve perhaps...and thereafter, perhaps at nightfalls again, once they'd done their traveling for the day and ye have their new position."<br/><br/>Ashran purred, "Likewise, scrying will be my pleasure. My Waterdhavian tutors found me just a bit<em>too</em>good at it, in fact. Rather, a few of my coeds did."<br/><br/>Pennae, still mostly studying the forest, asked the others but principally Lady, "Do you mean to stand athwart the road like lawless demands or 'tolls', or spring from about trees like ambushing cutthroats, or some of both? I for myself prefer the latter..."<br/><br/>"Aye," Ashram agreed with haste and more than a touch of cowardice in his voice, whereas Ulaw shook his head.<br/><br/>Pennae shrugged almost imperceptibly. "Both have appeal...'tis one tactic for some to stand out plain, to bring travelers to halting, the better for the ambushers to aim."<br/><br/>With almost lascivious interest, Ashram grinned and leaned forward, "Oh, someone<em>enjoys</em>highway robbery, does she?" 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