[@Vashonn] The three soldiers marched along, apparently oblivious to the ninja's presence. They turned their heads around every now and then to look out over the rice fields. It was apparent that they were simply patrolling, and spotting something off in a rice field is often extremely easy, and so none of them took their work very seriously. [@Bishop] “You don't fool me!” The youngling replied, waving his weapon in front of him like he was showing it off. “I know who you are and why you're here. You don't scare me and neither does you little 'friends'. Just take your phony story and go back to the queen's dungeon where you belong!” As he spoke several window shutters and doors nearby opened up, just a fraction, enough for someone inside to look at what was happening, but still not enough to be spotted from the outside. [@13org] Approaching the source of the sound, Nari spotted half a dozen men standing around a fallen tree, axes and saws all around. It was a tree that had made the sound, but not an ordinary one. It was a mighty specimen, so thick that even lying down it would've completely concealed half of the men if Nari hadn't positioned herself above them. Counting the rings would give a closer number, but that tree was probably at least a thousand years old. None of the men seemed to pay much attention to their surroundings, and two of them climbed up on the fallen trunk to better reach and chop off the branches with their axes. [@Lord of Evil] The farm was quiet. Apart from the barn there was the house where the humans lived, and connected to that some form of building for keeping livestock. A small area next to it held brown cows that chewed lazily as they looked at the newcomer with curiosity. The farm was small, so it was probably empty apart from the farmer and the boy. A path, to call it a road would be insulting, led away from the farm between green pastures and fields of rice and seemed to connect with a road further away.