[quote=Ceridwen]
"If I may interject myself, as much as sending two stealthy members on ahead sounds like a plan what if you get captured? Then we'd just be down two people against the same number of Orcs. There are strength in numbers and if possible I'd like to keep our number the same."
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"Then we won't get caught," Gytha said confidently.  "There is some danger in splitting up," she said then, partially agreeing with Ceridwen's point.  "But if the town has been taken over by orcs, we need to know that before exposing ourselves.  What if we ..."  

An arrow whizzing by interrupted the ranger's thought.  Someone was yelling  "...meet your death," as a second arrow almost impaled her foot.  With her arrow already knocked, she let her reflexes take over, drawing the bow back as she located the strange form darting through the trees.  Leading the flying thing just slightly, she let the arrow loose just as Ban was shouting something in an attempt to diffuse the situation.  But in her mind, once something was sending projectiles her direction, the time for talk was over.  There would be plenty of time to sort it out once the threat had been removed...