Saturday, January 24, 2015

Exile's End: Day 21

Word Count: 126,011

Summary of Events:
Chapter 41:
The Iøsenräl came upon a clearing in the woods in which a town was located. Searching around the town, they could find no way to get around it without being seen. Æliyäu sent an investigative party into the town to glean information — without Thårijn's approval, garnering his wrath — and found out they'd run into towns every ten miles if they kept on, so Thårijn gave orders for the route to be changed.
Chapter 42:
Due to scouting reports on their options they decided to move slightly westward by taking a tributary of the river they were following between the mountains. Thårijn gave orders to go as soon as it was dark — even though the townspeople wouldn't be in bed — and got into an argument with two of his brothers in law before going off angry. After his brothers in law talked with Æliyäu they went and apologized to Thårijn and followed his plan anyways.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Carefully and quietly Thårijn led the way through the trees up the western slope. He followed closely to the edge of the clearing, but doing what he could to keep out of sight of anyone who may well be out in the clearing — although he couldn't see anyone out there.
As they moved up Thårijn noticed that the treeline was coming closer on the opposite side. They were getting high up the mountains now, to the point where the trees stopped growing on these tall peaks, and honestly, Thårijn didn't like how narrow it was getting.
"Stop!" Jönäs called — sounding slightly hoarse — probably because he was trying to call loudly and quietly at the same time. Thårijn reined Græshädå in and rode back to the other two men.
"What?" Thårijn asked.
"It's even now too narrow for us to get through at any speed without being seen," Jönäs said. "If you go much further you'll be seen."
"Do you think the townspeople could really see that far, though?" Bæjern asked.
"Well, if we're going for long enough, and we don't even know what's on the other side," Jönäs said. "There could well be a logging camp on that side, they are the Förstenräl after all."
Thårijn sighed, how could they find out what was on the other side? But surely the townspeople wouldn't notice one man, and nothing said the loggers would either. So long as it was one man.
"Should we go back and meet up with the others?" Bæjern asked. "Have some discussion?"
"Yes," Thårijn said. "Let's go back and see what they found."
They headed back at a faster speed than they'd gone up and found the other scouting party was also just returning when they got to Æliyäu. The two groups gathered off to the side.
"We cannot get through up on our side, the treeline of the clearing and the treeline of the mountains get too close together," Thårijn said.
"Same," Löke replied. "And we pass even closer to the town."
"We can't go in any direction without being seen," Bæjern said.
"Did you spy any road out of this town?" Thårijn asked.
"No," Löke replied. "I think the road goes southward."
"I wonder why," Villäm said.
Thårijn nodded.
"Did you see any loggers?" Jönäs asked.
"No," Villäm replied.
"Let's all go up to the higher end," Thårijn said.
All of the men followed him and went up to where his party had stopped when they'd been looking before.
"Two of you go across, keep separate, and search out around the other perimeter," Thårijn said. "We need to see what we'd be encountering on the other side.""

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