"Oh.  You'll be seeing red all right," Toryn chided Jono, "if you don't turn over all your items.  That's all we want."

It was a lie of course.  If Jono returned and told people about this little scam people willing to follow Pyre out into the wilderness alone would be hard to find.  Worse, someone might get the idea to party up and chase them out.

Meanwhile, Pyre was decidedly useless at this point. If she helped in the attack she'd become marked and ineffective at scouting out bait.  She stepped closer to the bandit lord and Toryn placed his off-arm around Pyre in a way that was quite familiar.