(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/fe/49/2ffe493b1df146eed0327418623c5723.jpg)<br/><strong>Xara<br/>Steinhelm, guardhouse<br/>Tag: Taris</strong><br/><br/>"So they went out of town you say? Well, that would explain how they could hide from detection and strike at you, but where... most of the area around are fields and farmhouses,..." Xara pondered.<br/><br/>(http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/26292209/images/1375047322724.jpg)<br/><br/>"Excuse me overhearing, mam, captain," One of the other guards approached and stood at attention briefly before continuing..: "Been growing up here. There is an old mine, over there, not far from the west-gate." He pointed on the map.<br/>"Right here. But it's been abandoned a while ago, the ground below was too soft to support the mining equipment." He explained.<br/><br/>Xara gave a glance over to her half-elven aquaintance before deciding: "It's at best a half-hour travel. We could check it out before dark, just to make sure. Even explore it, if you know Light-magic, Lady Taris. Show us the way." The armored guard of the Hawk saluted, before stepping to lead the way out.<br/><br/>With little more choices in leads to follow, Taris found herself accompanying Xara and the guard.. guards, Xara had recruited another, just to be on the safe side, she said, leading the group of two fighters, herself and Taris along and onto an almost completely overgrown path between two fields.<br/><br/>Visibility gets a little bad as the group continues, due to the overhung sky and the slowly fading light, although Taris is not affected by this.. and one of the guards seems quite secure as well. That same guard points at something on the ground.. a smudge of upturned earth, for Taris, and remarks: "Someone's been here, recently. It could have just been a farmer of course, but..."<br/><br/>And just like that, you advance more carefully.<br/>(http://wpnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mountain-rolling-mountains-beautiful-tree-way-wallpaper-of-in-winter.jpg)<br/>You're looking to the north-edge of Hawken territory, bordering the harsher mountains of the wildlands in the far off distance. More interestingly, there is a small cave's entrance, a wooden entrance indicative of a mining shaft, and a half-rusted, turned over card. "Hah, I remembered where it was." one of the guard grins, triumphantly.<br/><br/>"... it seems abandoned..." Xara remarks.