"Now, now, before you get any smart ideas," Lawrence cut in worriedly upon hearing some of the suggestions being tossed around. "I'm no jailer and I'm afraid if you leave this brigand with us, prisoner or worker or no, my wife and I will wake up one morning to find our throats cut. Or not wake up, as would be the case."<br/><br/>Eleanor finally gave up on insisting that she be promised her freedom first before she gave any information away when her tactic was ignored again and again. She finally began to answer the questions that she was posed.<br/><br/><em>"Where if your camp?"</em><br/>"Two days' ride south-southeast, into the hills, by the banks of the Shrike river."<br/><br/><em>"What sort of defenses do you have?"</em><br/>"What defenses? It's not like we expect visitors. We don't even bother to post sentries anymore. There's a password so we don't fight our own kind - 'By the bones of Baratheon', and the counterphrase is 'Seated on the iron throne'. And no, I've never heard of Baratheon before."<br/><br/><em>"How many of you are there?"</em><br/>"There were a dozen of us - so eight, now."<br/><br/><em>"When would they be expecting your group to return?"</em><br/>"In two days' time for two day's ride, normally. But if we're late, they'll just assume we had some fun or found some new marks to shake down. They wouldn't start to care until a week later, I would guess."<br/><br/><em>"The Olegs told us a bit about your leader - pretty dark-skined lady?</em><br/>"Yes, Kressle we call her. She came from the forest originally but she doesn't talk about her past. She's all talk and no bite - keeps her position with her cunt. Not me, I'm one of the boys. Or used to be."<br/><br/><em>"The skinny fellow with the oversized cloak said something about a....Stag Lord?"</em><br/>"That would be the big boss up top. Most of us have never seen him, myself included. But the rumours go that he lives in a ruined castle in the south, fancies himself lord of these lands. And that he wears a stag skull for a helmet that covers his face and never takes him off. Hence the name."<br/><br/><br/>(OOC: If there are any other questions to ask or spells to be cast, now's the time.)