[color=A0A0A0][h2]Fleuri Jodeau[/h2][/color]

The entrance of the fort looked normal enough, but upon entering, Fleuri beheld a gruesome sight.  There were corpses all over the place, killed in various ways, and all of them appeared to be Thaln soldiers.  It seemed that the fort had provided little defense against whatever had attacked, because the south gate had been destroyed and none of the bodies appeared to be those of the attackers.  At least there appeared to be one survivor, perhaps they could get some information out of him.

[i]Anything that can knock down a fort's gate and kill a garrison of soldiers without taking casualties could be a serious threat even to us, [/i]Fleuri thought to himself as he followed behind the captain.  Any hope of getting some context to this attack from the survivor, however, was dashed as the was skewered from behind before the knights could reach him.  Anticipating a fight, Fleuri discarded his lance and drew his greatsword, then waited for Fanilly to give the order.

To Fleuri's surprise, however, the assailant did not attack; in fact, she didn't even ready her bloodied spear.  She simply and casually claimed to the captain that these weren't Thaln's soldiers and that the bloodbath had already happened before she got here.

[i]She doesn't look like she's expecting a fight.  She's either very confident, or she's set us up for an ambush.[/i]  Fleuri nervously looked up at the walls, half-expecting expecting hidden foes to emerge and start pelting them with arrows from all sides, but he saw nothing of that sort.  Just what was going on here, he wondered.

"I don't see anyone on the walls, Captain," he conveyed his observation to Fanilly.  "If this was a trap to lure us in here, I think they'd have sprung it by now."

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