Gnol led them to the place Duncan had described, it took a bit longer than he had said because Gnol had to look for the landmarks. When they reached the house of the lumberjack he looked around. "Perhaps Noble and the dragons can stay a bit behind so they aren't in direct sight immediately but not far." he said to Trevor. 
The Dwarf examined the house, bigger than he expected for a simple lumberjack. "Good folk!" he shouted when he couldn't see someone immediately. The door opened a little later and a man appeared in the door with one arm hidden behind the door.

"Exactly how good of folks are you?" the man asked, even though his face had a smile that could pass as friendly his watchful eyes inspected the good folks at his place.

Gnol raised his hands to show no harm. "Good enough to put up with Duncan Ferillion," Gnol said casually and the recognition in the man's eyes byu hearing the name was enough for Gnol to know they were at the right place.

"Duncan huh, how can I know you didn't kill him and leave his body somewhere in the forest?" the man asked still in a conversational tone but the slight narrowing of his eyes showed he was still suspicious about the group.

Gnol shrugged, "Duncan is too busy trying to get his horse this way, we went ahead. He couldn't leave the horse alone although he should have. Duncan also said to remind you about a certain cat and a moat"

The man nodded once. "Fair enough, we'll see, behind the house is a paddock, you can lock your horses up there. I'll unlock the back door, you can wait in the kitchen."

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"Sounds like you'll never have a dull moment with Linda by your side." Alan said grinning.

Alan took the hand to get off, although he didn't really need the help. He looked worriedly at Mercury. Terasivas wriggled free and ran to Mercury's  head. "Are you ok? Do I need to help you up?" Alan just hoped Linda would return soon. "hope the dragonfruit Linda spoke about isn't far."

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Crreessa watched with mild interest to the fighting in the trees. When Damien fell out of the tree she burst out in laughter. She leaned against RedClaws, "Did you see?" she managed to squeeze out between laughs. "He...fell..out..of...the..treeeee." RedClaws didn't respond to his rider. She wiped some tears from laughing from her eyes but when she looked at Damien she nearly started again.

She cleared her throat to keep the next guffaw down and focussed on the other person, she was sure she would start laughing again when she would look at Damien.
"Nice move," she complimented as she leaned casually against RedClaws, her tail swaying from left to right.

RedClaws looked at Ram silently, he wasn't sure he could trust any reactions so he remained silent.