Riverdane looked over the map, she had shared with him and shook her head at that. "No. Unlikely," he replied, then looked at her. "I think, what we are dealing with here is, pardon this, overconfidence."

"Namely, when we came down that path, we saw no disturbance nor indication that any orc or horde of them, had passed through the land. It was one of the reasons, we had our golems up first. Since we had expected ambushes along the path," he spoke, then trailed a finger along the map - from where the orcs had escaped to. Namely it was in the opposite direction - and into forests that were supposed to be too dense to pass.

"I have gotten no messages from my rear scouts. So that means, that they went through here and disappeared there, somewhere," he spoke, holding his finger on that spot on the map. "Since if you forget, the only way the orcs had to escape was through us - and we had a wall of gunpower and steel infront of them."

"So in my opinion, that leaves two options. Either somebody has carved a long path through your forests and hidden it with magic. Or the orcs have dug somekind of tunnel or network underneath your lands. Which do you think is more plausible or worse?" he finished, then taking a moment to try out her land' tea. "Mhmm. Not bad, minty."

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