The women dress Korima quickly, shielding her from Akiros. At Devaguea's admonishment, the man shrugged. "What, can't I look?" he asked, with a slight grin, that turned into a grimace, at his leg. "I've had worse," he replied. "That skeleton in the tomb got me good."<br/><br/>The remainder of the trip back to the capital was uneventful, but when they arrived, he'd hardly have time to get settled, before reports came to him of murders, in the last few days -a few days ago, some livestock were brutally slaughtered in their pens at an outlying farm; then two people were killed as well—a maid named Saki, who never made it home after her shift at an inn, and a shepherd boy named Beven, who (along with his flock) was attacked on his way back to town. People are fearing bandits, or some horrible beast stalking the town's outskirts!