~~Group B~~

The night was darkening rapidly and the moon had slipped behind a cloud while Johanna and Wes explored the old building.  The horses outside whickered softly, feeling a change in the atmosphere of the night.  

While Johanna and Wes worked inside the building, unraveling the habits and the dangers of the creature that dwelt there, another made her way swiftly along secret paths towards the building.  

Neither Isabau or her mare needed the moonlight to follow the trail.  Both had traveled this way so often now that they could find their way in the pure blackness of night if they had to.  The forest was thick and the moonlight weak; it was almost pure black as they rode along.  The second horse was less confident but because it was following the lead mare it remained quiet.  Besides its load was easy, the body draped across it still as death.  

Isabau pulled her mantle tighter about her to ward off the night's chill and squeezed her legs to urge the mare along a bit faster.  Her irritation was palpable and the horse picked up on her annoyance.  It picked up it's pace in response.  Isabau cast a backwards glance at the body draped across the second horse.  

Adam was bound, hand and foot, naked except for a coarse wool cloak.  Isabau was more than annoyed.  She was furious.  She couldn't believe she made such a miscalculation.  She should have known immediately when she sensed something wrong about Adam's health.  Of course it was subtly “wrong”.  Adam was a woman.  Consequently completely unsuited to what she had planned.  She needed a brilliant mind. A brilliant -male- mind.  Adam would have to die of course, she would give 'him' to the creature and that would settle that.  But what would she do now?  Her plans, her studies, all was in tatters.

When she heard the sound of another horse where she was  headed her mood darkened further.  What were horses doing out here.  She halted her own mount and slipped off, leaving the 2 horses and the unconscious Adam off the trail in a dark thicket.  

Then she slipped quietly down the path she knew so well to see what she could see.  The moon had obligingly hidden behind the clouds swathing the land in darkness and the chill in the air seemed to muffle sound even further.  

Isabau lurked in the darkness watching.  The two horses were unfamiliar to her which meant nothing.  She hadn't been out in society for a very long time.  She wouldn't recognize anyone's mounts anymore.  The light in the mill was more disturbing.  Someone was poking around in there, and it was not the building's “true”occupant.

She quietly walked up to the unknown stranger's waiting horses and untied them.  With a quick smack on their rumps she sent the already nervous creatures off into the dark woods.  Then as quickly as she could she slipped back into the near black woods to watch, hidden deep in the shadows and thick foliage of the trees.        

~~Group C~~

Filip found himself confronted with the sort of situation he had hoped never to face.  He was a student of humanity.  After all he made is living knowing who to rob, and who to avoid.  He was quick of foot and usually quick of tongue.  But this woman he knew you could not con.  He wasn't even certain   

“Wha...what?” he asked trying to figure out how to escape.  He wasn't even sure where the one who was following him went to.  Maybe that one was just part of the trap.  He could bolt but right now he knew instinctively that now was not the time to make his move.  So he waited, hoping to stay alive long enough to figure out what it was she wanted.