Just about everyone glanced to one another and then shook their heads. Lorag's plan was all they needed; fast, effective, and shocking. Short of the flimsy looking cabin being reinforced with stone on the inside, there really wasn't much else to worry about as far as anyone could think. Only one detail got mentioned a moment later, by Gallus, "Excepting Kaleeth, obviously, let's refrain from transforming unless we have to. They might have that gas Meesei mentioned."

As was agreed upon, Ahnasha and Fendros made their approach first. They circled around the cabin such that they were approaching with the building between themselves and the fire. There was not much to be done about the detritus that carpeted the ground on their approach except to move as lightly as possible. The crackling of the fire ought to have covered the sound of their approach and the dark would obscure them from the sight of anyone looking through the windows. They agreed to pick a guard and count off to kill them at the same time.

Once they reached the cabin itself, Fendros leaned over to Ahnasha and spoke in scant whispers, slowly but clearly. "Shoot on ten. One...two...three...four..." Fendros stopped counting and started making his way around the left side of the cabin, crouching under the windows. At the pace that Fendros had been counting, he reached eight with an arrow nocked and was lining up a shot at his target from the corner of the cabin. By ten, he suspected that the count would have diverged a little, but not fast enough for the targets to react.

[i]Ten.[/i] Fendros let loose his arrow into the back of his guard's neck. At this distance it was an easy shot.

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Sabine shook her head again, this time speaking. "No," she said quietly. She didn't seem to notice that it was a repeated question.

Still looking at Peiter, Sabine dipped her head deep to one side such that her cheek was resting on her upper arm. "I..." Sabine looked at the ground, and then at the fire. Her voice lowered in volume even further. "I was not offended." In this light, it was hard to see Sabine's cheeks flaring red. She clarified after a small moment, "Back at the stream, before they came. You thought..." Sabine trailed off, she didn't know where she was headed with her words.