<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/98/5b/d8985b98a1edf0a3b46e0dbc84993f46.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/9e/7b/c4/9e7bc4f627de4b3d9ee11374dca660db.jpg)<strong></strong></div><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/11/ff/f8/11fff896403dc7855fea201c8d88d00b.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/8a/e6/fa8ae6cc4f30eecc8312ea4430a318d7.jpg)</div><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><strong>Songbird</strong></div></div><div class="floatleft"><div align="center"><strong>Hawk</strong></div></div><div align="center"><strong>Sergeant Mullhaja                                                         Takxi</strong></div><hr/>"I am good, master, I healed myself as you had instructed."<br/><br/>Which Darius had told her to do before going with Takxi to investigate the scene of the scorpion swarm.   Whether he would use his concubine was up to him upon hearing this.   Regardless if did or not,  the two fall asleep.   While they slept the kobold Takxi would relieve sergeant Mullhaja in the middle of the night.<br/><br/>It is about three hours after such change of the night guard.   That the kobold Takxi is yelling for everyone to awaken.<strong>"Everyone up now,  everyone up!"</strong>There is no sound upon waking that they are under attack.  Yet there was urgency in her voice.   For a brief moment it seems she has gone nuts.   There is no one attacking them.   But she points to the distance, the way they will be going.<br/><br/>What they see in the distance is a large glow,  as if a village is on fire.   In the air the camp is being filled with the scent of burning as the glow realized is a fire.   Like everyone else the Hawk has been awakened.   When he canters his head to see the distant fire making a huge glow in the distance.   He goes nuts and starts  yelling.<br/><br/><strong>"Free me, give me my weapons,  free me!  They need me,  free me, you fools!"</strong>There is fear and desperation in his voice.  The rake who is being taken to the gnolls now wants to go running to them.<br/><br/>Sergeant Mullhara;<strong>"My lord, I believe the Gnoll village is under attack, it will explain why our escort suddenly disappeared."</strong>He glandes at the cat Hawk who is violent thrasing about trying to free himself of the shackles.<br/><br/>For the trio of Darius, Songbird and Takxi.  With darkvision they see beyond the soft glow of their own fires.  They see gnolls running.   Being cut down as they run towards them.  These gnolls are not warriors but the familes of the gnolls.   Cut down by soldiers of the massive empire of Kelesh and they are slaughtering the gnolls.   Songbird screams when she sees young trampled and skewered with spears.<br/><br/>Without thinking she is racing towards them riders and gnolls coming towards them. Her magic is crackling about her.   She does not heed Darius if he calls her back.  Her focus is solely on what is happening infront of her.<br/><br/>(Perception rolls for initiative.)<br/><br/><br/><br/>