[i]Oh! There she goes!![/i] Teddy thought and kicked his charger into a gallop catch up with Anja, [i]man she's bold[/i]. He looked over his shoulder to see if Simone was coming too and he noticed that Trooper Bauer, who looked like he was quietly appreciating the beauty of the field they were on, had turned and was riding towards them as well. [i]Wait.. did she call me handsome?[/i] Teddy blushed and felt ridiculous before telling himself he heard wrong; as he rode closer it looked like she was smiling, but he wasn't sure. 

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The four Troopers stopped near the edge of the forest and dismounted their horses. They had stopped on a hill and so had a good vantage point to see the village; Teddy silently gave a word of thanks for their green uniforms which blended nicely into the greenery around them. The village was small, little more than a grouping of farm houses situated along the river's edge. A little further along the river he could see some larger buildings on the opposite bank and there, sparkling with spray from the torrential river like an elephant covered in diamonds, was a gorgeous stone bridge, exactly what they were looking for. 

Teddy felt giddy and couldn't help but smile big as he looked to his left and right at his companions. Then Trooper Ulmer pointed her perfectly straight finger at one of the houses northeast of their position, further inland from the river. Teddy looked and saw a group of three yellow uniforms talking to a man who looked like a farmer and pointing to the east and south. It was a stroke of tactical wisdom that the leadership of the Rhaetian troops had ordered no cook fires and quiet marching, so the Tallions didn't know their precise location, but it was strange they would know the regiment was traveling north at all.

He scanned the houses looking for more troops, he couldn't see any out in the open but that didn't mean there wasn't a whole squad hidden across the river. A few scary decisions had to be made, and they needed to be made quickly. Teddy tried to keep his face hard, but he suddenly had to poop. 

The three Tallion soldiers in their yellow uniforms walked with the bent over farmer back trailing behind them towards the bridge and then disappeared from sight behind one of the rustic cottages.