<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314115.msg15260268#msg15260268">Quote from: TwistedKitsune on 31-01-2020, 18:22:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Lily Siannodel</strong><br/><br/>Slowly starting to look around the immediate area for any tracks she can find. Turning over a few things before moving on. Stopping to switch her shortbow for a longbow off the ground before continuing her scanning.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Moving through the trees she can easily spot where the bandits must have waited for the last caravan of the night last night. It is more difficult, but she can also spot the almost faded path that leads in the general direction of the abandoned tower that Lily and the others explored yesterday.<br/><br/>Searching across the muddy road Lily just manages to find the many trails left by the dozen twig creatures. It leads through about eighty feet of woods, before coming to a low field-stone row, a crude unmortared farmer's wall made of stones hauled from a field.<br/><br/>The field in front of her has been fallow for years. Rasberry canes and briars, brown and dry from the winter, stand amid wild-grown oats and rye in the field. About one hundred feet away she can see a thatched roof cottage. The thatch is dark with age, and sunken -- it hasn't been repaired for some time. Near the cottage she sees what looks like a black apple tree with reddish-white leaves. The clearing ends beyond the farmer's cottage. Clearings such as this are not uncommon across the land, as often abandoned as occupied. The black apple tree with the white-red leaves is atypical, however.<br/><br/>The twig creatures crossed the fallow field, but common sense and some premonition prevents Lily from crossing the field unescorted by her companions.<br/><br/>