[h2]Lilianna Belwiss[/h2]

She had forgotten just how miserable an experience it was to be travelling in haste. The food was bad, the weather had to be endured rather than waited out, and it was uncomfortable. Particularly the uncomfortable part--though not as much for her as some of the poorer knights; Lilianna was still a noble and used to having a [i]good[/i] riding horse and another of fine breeding for the fighting.

Looking back at the convoy, she had no idea how anyone might fall for this ruse and assume they were just a group of mercenaries. Bereft of heraldry or shining armour, it was still a large enough armed group--and one lead by the Captain herself. Just about the one thing that might convince the heathens that it was an unrelated force was the distinctly missing profile of one paladin... though as small mercies went, her absence was distinctly troubling. It wasn't that she had stayed behind. Rather, Tyaethe had been entirely absent when it became time to set out, horse undisturbed in the stables.

Ahead, the terrain seemed more favourable to them than any enemy--plenty of open land, suitable for running down peasant rebels. How had they not been dealt with already? It should be trivial.