[quote=@Mag Lev]”My men don’t like the Order being here. They take it that I’d rather let them die out in the Forest and get home than get as many people as possible back. That is why I need someone to track down whatever is going on in those Forests. I’m willing to pay both you and the Order a heavy sum for your services, even give you a discount on our goods, if you can help us.” The words hung in the air between Einarr and the Leader, the camp’s momentary chaos dying down as work resumed.[/quote]

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[color=gray]"I see...."[/color] He said, ignoring the returning scouts harsh words, as he silently went over the situation once more in his head, only this time taking into account the new information he'd been given. Wargs being active this time of year was not unusual, but to find one killed a few feet away from a stag it had just taken down was practically unheard of. Einarr had gone up against these beasts out on missions before and he knew that they didn't just leave a kill out in the open like the one the merchant had described, seemed to have done. He knew wargs jealously guarded their kills, especially during the colder months when food was scarce, and only retreated or ran away when something more intimidating and deadly than them came along.

But the merchant had said that they found a piece of the stags antler inside the wargs corpse, so it could have just been an accident or the outcome of a fight between the two animals. Perhaps the stag put up more of a fight than the warg had anticipated and managed to fatally wound it or perhaps the antler got caught in its jaws and then broke off, becoming lodged inside the wargs body that way. Einarr's eyes narrowed slightly as he stopped his line of mental questioning from becoming a full blown tangent. He'd never find out what was actually causing these merchants problems or be able to resolve it if he just sat on his ass all day and "thought" about it. He needed to take action.

[color=gray]"Alright, me and my companions..."[/color] He said, finally breaking the almost palpable silence that had settled between him and the merchant leader as he gestured to Aelsu, Lunearo, and Kuri. [color=gray]"...will take care of it. But before we do, I'd like to speak to the scouts that just returned to camp. Given the fact that they were doing reconnaissance near the area in which you first encountered these strange occurrences, they might be able to give us some more detailed information or at the very least a vague idea of what we're up against."[/color] While Einarr was keenly aware of the deep seeded hatred the men these merchant's hired had for the Order and those who worked for it, he knew that they were, for the moment anyway, the only ones who could tell him more about what dangers might lurking in the depths of that forest.