<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Map</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i.imgur.com/9SdJXov.png)</div></div><br/>The group split up; Oriana, Adelise and Lydia marched straight up the path to the bandit camp while Silas and Tsoni went off the beaten track to sneak around back.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Oriana, Adelise and Lydia followed the trail which ran parallel to the brook. Soon enough they came upon a bandit checkpoint. There were watchposts on either side of the stream. Each of the two watchposts was a raised wooden platform stretched between two neighbouring trees, providing a high vantage point, about twenty feet above the ground, for the archer sentry stationed at each of them. A rope ladder dangled from each platform to provide access. Under the eastern platform was a pile of unknown items, all covered by a heavy sheet of canvas. (K2, K3)<br/><br/>Between the two watchposts were a pair of thick logs by the stream. A woman was sitting there - probably the leader of this camp, Kressle, that Eleanor has earlier spoken about. Unlike the other bandits dressed in cloth and leather, she was clad in a minimal amount of furs that did little to hide her well-toned and well-endowed body. Her arms and legs were painted with white stripes contrasting against her tanned skin. She had a long spear with an ornately carved metal head, and wore strings of boar tusks as jewelry. (K4)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Kressle</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i.imgur.com/TocQFRL.png)</div></div><br/>Further beyond was an empty wagon with broken wheels and axles. Two more bandits were trying to fix it, sweating in the oppressive heat. (K5)<br/><br/>"Intruder!" The western sentry called out as he saw the arrivals, instantly catching the attention of all the other bandits as well. The two archers on the platforms nocked arrows to their bows. Kressle got up and the other two bandits left their repair work to take up position on either side of her, unsheathing their short swords. The tribal woman pointed her spear at the intruders. "Who are you?", she demanded, her voice carrying an accent as exotic as her appearance.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>While this was going on, Silas and Tsoni were sneaking into the bandit camp, east of the other group. They came undetected upon a small clearing that was apparently serving as the bandits' campsite. It lay just a bit further east of the eastern watchpost, surrounded by trees that hide it from casual view. Around a stone-lined campfire currently unlit were logs that served as chairs. Firewood and kindling were heaped up a short distance away. Silas counted a total of thirteen smoothed spots on the ground where the bandits probably slept at night, some appearing more recently used than others. (K1)<br/><br/>The sentry at the watchpost had his attention focused on the girls at the moment, but even if he was alert he still might not have spotted the sneaky rogue and cat making their way in anyways.