"The lady knight isn't with you, I fear she may have taken the bait."
It took a moment for the statement to register in his head, but once it did Marren let out a groan. “Shit”
Somehow he had forgotten that whole incident with the arrow and the message and what they were supposed to be doing the next day. It was starting to come back to him now, Maria's reaction. She knew who that person was, Marren had seen how her face had darkened when she read the message, the hard set of her jaw and the steel in her eyes. A reaction that strong was bound to be personal.
He looked at the new addition to their group, the all too mysterious stranger that Marren trusted as much as the money grubbing, greedy, soulless moneylenders of Ari. “Any idea where she is?”
Just as he said that a hair tingling scream, far louder than So'kein, one that sounded painful, rang out from the jungle. It pierced the silent night and disturbed the birds who flew off, away from the noise.
“Well, no need to go looking”