[center][h1][color=948551][b]Gûshruk[/b][/color][/h1][/center][hr]	Though hidden well within the deep pine woods, still the camp was cautious; even in daylight could the smoke of a fire be spotted. Thus their commander had ordered that they hang sheets and nets and boughs over them, dispersing the smoke. He had had them march single-file into their hiding place, too, hiding their numbers thereby. Speaking at any louder volume than a hushed whisper was strictly forbidden.

	"[color=948551]We cannot wait another day,[/color]" he had said, leaving it at that, even when his soldiers challenged him to debate the point. He did not repeat himself. His word was law, although he had placed his hand casually on his sword's pommel just for punctuation. That is how it was decided that the White Worms would enter the woods at high noon, send forth their scout in broad daylight, and attack that night: [i]we cannot wait another day.[/i] Waiting for nightfall to scout, and then the next night to actually attack, wasted time; and wasted time wasted supplies, from food to ale to patience.

	But patience he possessed in abundance, that orc. At the fringe of the camp he waited, squatting atop a small boulder, peering with vicious beady eyes in the direction of the town, between the trees where his reconnaissance would come scurrying. It was a long trek, especially for such a short-legged creature as this scout to endure, but because the forest's undergrowth had bloomed wild and shaggy, and because the dry, dead firewood on the floor had not been scavenged, Gûshruk knew that the chances of being spotted by a hunting party were slimmer. The villagers were not wandering this far out for their firewood and game; uneducated and perhaps stupid, but Gûshruk was far from blind. He noticed these things quickly and naturally about this hostile world he inhabited.

[i]Notice.[/i] He would hear the goblin before he saw it, especially in those drab rags it wore, and with the earthy tones of its slick, filmy skin. Hopefully the same could be said of the villagers.

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