<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=3412.msg112507#msg112507">Quote from: Amberghylles on 02-01-2006, 07:03:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Harker moved closer, watching her.  He licked his lips, and was about to interrupt her preparations when the other gnolls came scampering in.<br/><br/>"An ogre!" the youngling yelped, "He came and took the other female!"<br/><br/>"He had orcs with him... They all went off to the woods..."<br/><br/>"Should we get the others?  Go after them?"<br/><br/>Harker frowned and shook his head.  "Fight an ogre and his orcs?" he snarled, "Not over one female.  We let them go."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Jessica...taken by an ogre?"  Beth went pale.  "What--what do they want with her?"  But inside, she knew all too well...probably the same thing Harker and his pack wanted with her and her daughters.  She was going to propose they try and rescue her, but she could sense the finality in Harker's voice.  She turned and went back to cutting vegetables.