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[color=gold]Time:[/color] After midnight
[color=gold]Location:[/color]Forest near Sun Elf Kingdom
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Cade had been more so distracted by the strange scent that he hadn’t noticed the fowl odor in woods, dank and familiar. Cade’s mouth opened slightly in disgust at smell of an orc.  A gruff voice shouted for him to get out as he approached further. His eyes focused in on a large brutish figure and then another smaller creature he did not immediately recognize. They were easy to spot as the smaller one glowed a brilliant blue and looked like some sort of adorable imp. He scanned around for other orcs but saw none, which was strange as he knew the beasts to travel in hordes. Also, strange that this orc had not eaten the smaller creature, and that he did not appear to be the orcs captive either, as both men were conversing with one another. The orc asked his name while the smaller fella offered him jerky. He figured the smaller man to be magical, due to the glowing, and wondered if he had done something to cause the earth to tremble as it had earlier.

[color=gold]“I am Cadence of a Thunderstorm, last of The High Wilds clan of Lora.”[/color] He announced proudly, before he paused and thought about the jerky. Had he not already feasted with fairies earlier that night the offer might be more tempting but the thought of sharing a meal with an orc was discomfiting. [color=gold]“I do not eat with, creatures I do not trust.”[/color] He said eyeing the orc waiting for signs of aggression. Tales the elders had told him of orcs skinning cats for their pelts flashed back to him, and while the smaller creature was intriguing, the company he kept made Cade apprehensive of him as well. [color=gold]“Most simply call me Cade. And you are?”[/color] He asked.

He wondered about asking them of the unusual earth tremors from earlier, of the strange new scent in the forest here, and of the powerful magics that had sent a strange charge in the air. He held his other questions back as trusting orcs would never be in his nature. Cade, also, wanted to be the first to figure out what was going on tonight, to be the first to find the source of this magic and to claim the bragging rights of having solved a mystery. Having to share credit, with an orc of all things, would certainly make the ordeal less impressive.