She could hear movement in the woods up ahead of her and smelled the fine steel of soldiers. Marina looked out on to the road and located a group of scouts on the road moving further into the Kingdom. There was caution to their movement as they eyed the woods and grounds for enemies. The three scouts held crossbows at the ready causing the mage to back into the woods in case they decided they wanted some fresh meat tonight.
Seeing how scared they looked she decided to test them and smashed her hooves into a tree shaking the tree with the force causing branches to break and filling the woods with noise. Two of the scouts pulled their crossbows in a panic sending wild shots off harmlessly in the woods. The third man shook his head at the other two and headed towards the woods to investigate the sound.
“Marn, you stay here,” the leader said. “George, you reload your weapon and come with me.
They didn’t wear the uniforms of the army of Dreze but they had forgotten to hide their tattoos marking them as servants to the dark ruler of their land. She wondered what their story would be if they came across a superior force, most likely that they had escaped from the slave armies of the man. Marina moved to the road and circled to the front of Marn and approached the man distracted by his loading of his weapon.
He noticed her, surprised a deer would come so close but it was just a harmless animal so he went back to work. Marina leaped forward, knocking the man to the ground and processed to stomp him into oblivion. She quickly bounded into the woods as the men came back to investigate the sound of their dying friend. It had been a good opportunity but it would be much more difficult to take out the rest in this form. If she took out the scouts it could slow the army down as they tried to figure out what was happening but these scouts were not the real danger.
Her nostrils flared as they caught a whiff of smoke and she knew something big was burning in the distance. She raced through the woods as she thought of the border town of Golden Gate which was nearby and it might be burning to the ground by the armies of Dreze. She would make the man pay if he had torched the town.
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