The houses.
The two riders are now a fifty yards away. "Ho!" one of
them barks. The horses come to a stop a stone's throw from the
wheelbarrow. "There!" one of them points to the stone
building, "We will face them there
if they find us."
The one that gave the commands and seem to be incharge
dismounted and tied the reins of his horse to the saddle. The other
followed. "Hiigh Yaahh!", with a slap the first rider sent
both horses galloping down the street.
As the riders head into the stone building which now looks to be a
inn, Raven's Room Inn , you notice that they are both warriors. The
first was clad in scaled steel armor and wearing a two slightly curved
shieths straped crosswise on his back. The second was in reinforced
leather. He carried a heavy crossbow over his right sholder and quiver
of bolts over his left.
They both wore steel helmets with green and purple plumes.
The warriors disappeared into the Raven Room. The second steading the
swing doors as they passed through.
Crash! with a tinkle of broken glass, the lower pain in one of the
windows of the Inn shattered. In the shadow a glint of light from the
head of a bolt shines in the newly broken window. Then silence, no...
More horse hoofs pound the ground. You glance up in the direction of
the sound. Six, no eight more riders!
You make a quick limp run to the house and dive behind the hedge.
You realize that the crystal has cooled off a bit so you cautiously
let it rest back on your chest as before.
