Starfall was able to enjoy about a minute of bathing in the stream by which everyone had made camp when it occurred to her that she was not entirely alone. Several horses with Linowan markings and war gear had come to take a drink a number of yards upstream. The young exalt may have felt the need to shield her body from the gaze of their riders, were they not all obviously dead and crudely bound to their saddles. It doesn't take a close look to tell that each of the bodies were warriors, nor that they each died of grievous injuries, much of their blood having leaked down to stain the blood of their mounts. That same blood was washing off of the animals' legs and heads as they drank, staining the water that was about to wash over Starfall.