As the Rangers greet the new arrivals the rest of the nomads surge past, the Blue Llamas looking on in interest at Greeshar and Whispers from the Sky, ruing on their High Llamas with loud calls , whistles and shouts. The Agimori on the other hand spread out, either to hunt or to scout out the route.

A look of surprise passed over Akala's face like a wind over a field of wheat.

"Whispers from the Sky?  You look..." he looked the woman up and down, blushing as much as his swarthy, sun tanned, golden-bronze skin would allow.

Finally managing to regain his composure, he finished respectfully, "You look like a true Brave woman.  Strong of body and..." the Stoneface noted the spirit activity that swirled around the woman, "...strong of spirit."

He embraced her warmly.

At the look from Greeshar, Akala attempted to clap the man on the shoulder, "Coz!  It is me!  You rememb-" the statement was interrupted by a hacking coughing fit, that left the Big Brave looking a little pale, and his rib cage heaving with the effort.

"Forgive me," he said, forgetting his intention of smoothing Greeshar's rough edges, "Between being poisoned by a Chaos Storm earlier this week, and stung by a Scorpion Man just last night, I am not feeling my best.  I am excited to be rejoined with so many of the Sky Watcher clan, but I also need rest and time to regain my strength."

With a few more coughs, Akala continued to guide Thundercloud towards their destination.

Melock spends the the morning gradually working his way round the herd, changing where he is guarding every so often in an effort to keep himself awake and alert, but it is no coincidence that as they follow the trail down the cliff he is next to Delenda. "There's no easy way of bringing this up, so I'm going to be blunt," he pauses as he collects his thoughts, Why do I feel the need to explain myself to her? "I doubt there will be many at the temple who will be pleased to see you with us, even less so if you are armed. Some might even want to kill you on sight, but as our," he pauses again to think of a better word than captive, "guest, you are under our protection, but you are also our responsibility. So for your safety and that of anyone else at the temple, when we get there, you'll need to hand back your weapon." He visibly tenses, but makes sure his hands are not on any of his own weapons. "I think it would be a good idea if you had one of us with you while we are there. I'm sure Amara wont mind you staying with her, if she cant, I will. Though that's presuming they'll let me back in the temple after last time."
When he hears Amara's shout he looks round, Greeshar and Whispers? He wont be happy to see Delenda either, crap. "Thats Amara's brother Greeshar and one of their Shaman, Whispers from the Sky. I doubt he'll be happy to see you, even less so that your armed and not bound and gagged," he rubs the bridge of his nose, "look, to make things easier for all of us, give me your weapon, I'll leave it hanging on Stinky so its easy for you to get it, but at least you dont have it. I'll ride next to you until we get to the Earth temple. I'll be honest, I can't wait to see his reaction to you, he'll hate you because of being a sable, but because he's a Stormbull, he'll like you for killing chaos."

Kobal joins the others as their make their preparations in the morning.  "The spirit of the Saxaul has sent word ahead that we are approaching.  Those at the Giant Finger Holes will be expecting us."



Kobal himself is a bit doubtful that the Sable brave bears a weapon, though he tries not to show it.  "She fought well," he says, "and did not try to escape.  I think she has earned some trust from us.  And gratitude."  Though not for laughing at my fall.



"I was leading the charge," says Kobal defensively.  "In the dark, so as not to alert the scorpion men.  If I had not struck the cactus, the others would have, and hurt themselves..."




"Greeshar," Kobal roars, and rides up to the brave.  "It's good to see you well again."  He gives the rhino rider a playful head butt.  "And you, Wise One, well met."



"Ohanzee?  Where is that trouble maker?  I'll kill him!

"But first, come, meet Cantalas, who leads these Blue Llamas.  And there Agimori who have joined our party as they heard of Emesh-Ga's return."  Kobal introduces two newcomers to Cantalas.
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In reply to Melock (msg # 31):

Delenda shrugs and hands over the lance without question, though she shows surprise at Melock saying that she might not be welcome at the Earth Temple.

Watching Greeshar warily she makes sure to keep Melock between her and the Rhino rider brave.

In reply to Delenda Axe Sister (msg # 33):

He does his best to keep the surprise off his face when she hands the lance over so easily. He makes sure its within easy reach if she needs it. When he see's her shock about the Earth Temple, "Sorry ,I didn't mean the Earth Witch wouldn't be welcoming, its just we don't know who else has arrived while we've been gone. We met a Storm Khan and his band last time we visited. That almost ended in disaster, though Amara held her own in a head butting contest." He smiles, "I'm sure it'll be fine, its just that, as we have found out to our cost, we need to get better at dealing with unexpected events."   

Amara shrugged "A mudshark bit it off. It is almost completely healed now." she stepped back to look over her brother pleased that he seemed to be in good health, before answering whispers. "Yes, we had...a lot of missteps, but we are here and have some good fortune on our side. Some poor fortune too, but it is life in the wastelands."

She turned to completely face Whispers "Thank you for healing Greeshar and restoring him to full health. I am in your debt. Akala has returned to us and we may have other allies that ride behind us too. We have so much news that we could spend days in the retelling of the story, but we should probably move so we can meet the Earth Witch by the appointed time."

Tarnessh greeted Greeshar respectfully (and a bit warily, as he was still a follower of Storm Bull.), but was glad that he was okay after that fever.

Greeshar takes hold of his sister's injured arm, examining the hand and stumpy still growing fingers. She's right it's nearly healed and in another two weeks would be complete.

"Who healed you?" he asks, relief on his normally scowling face.

Gresshar takes the headbutt from Kobal, returning his attention to his sister after a quick "It is good to see that you are still alive Kobal."



"Ohanzee he was camped at the bottom of the cliff when we arrived there. He has continues on his way to the Earth Complex" replies Whispers from the Sly.

Cantalas returns  the greetings and welcomes both new arrivals, then heads off to watch over his people as they continue onwards.

"You have just come from fighting chaos? Were they defeated?"

Greeshar looks annoyed to have missed the scrap.

Akala grinned at his cousin, clapping the man's upper arm, "Of course," he said easily, "But if there is anyone down there with some skill at treating poison, I would have their help."

"Grrr" answers the brave, still pissed that he missed out. Waving on Akala, Greeshar turns back to his sister....

Whilst the Rangers talk the Herd continues its march towards the ever nearing Earth Complex at the Giant Finger Holes. To the North looms the Rhino Rocklands, large jutting rocks, all that remains of the fallen great spirit and ancestor of the Rhinos.

The Seza nods happily falling in alongside the red headed brave, content to wait for her to finish talking to her brother.

Turning to Henal and any of the others close by she asks "So tell me of what has happened since we last saw you? Where is Haratt and Bamled, are they at the rear?"

Tarnessh smirked a bit and told Greeshar of all the Scorpion-Men that Grumpfy killed. "Oh you would have loved it!" He teased.

"I was healed by the only healer available. A Lunar Priestess by the name of Quinta Ruvallena. The price was of course too high and Zara has fallen under her spell as have a large number of others....but there was no other option at the time." she told her brother.

"Did anyone see him kill them?" he asks, looking like he's about to thump Tarnessh. "And what of you, how many did you kill?"

In reply to Whispers from the Sky (msg # 43):

Sadly Harrat and Bamled fell fighting chaos. Bamled with us against a tribe of cannibals that had captured Ohanzee and Tarnessh. Harratt fell when we were fighting Basmoli undead before we even reached Corflu. This has been a hard journey with many fights against chaos whether foul broo or scorpionmen or other beasts.

Though we dispersed the cannibals and hunted some of them down it hardly makes up for the loss of a comrade and fighting the broo we came close to losing others of us. But still we prevailed and left chaos weaker and aided the greening of the land.

I wonder if Grumpfy really killed all those scorpionmen. I did not see that as I was heading back to the camp to seek aid in rescuing Tarnessh again.

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"I know that we found him surrounded by the bodies of the same number of Scorpion-men that tried to carry him off. As for me, I know I definitely killed two or three during a charge on their flank, but then I got knocked out...again." He muttered the last part.

"I think everyone who was there ended up killing some Scorpionmen. And Broo" Amara added, trying to stop Greeshar poking fun at Tarnessh.

"What?!"

"You went to....You....What the?" It looks like Greeshar will explode. He drops her injured arm as if it's cursed.

Turning to the others he bellows "You allowed this?"
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As Melock passes Greeshar and Whispers, he does his best to keep between them and Delenda, "Greeshar! Whispers from the Sky! Good to see you both. Your looking a lot better than the last time I saw you Greeshar. Whispers, did I hear you right, that Ohanzee is making his way to the temple by himself? Is he ok, did he give any reason to be travelling by himself?" Melock laughs at Greeshars comment, "Since when does Amara let us tell her what to do?"

Tarnessh shrugged. "She is as capable of making her own decisions as we are. What were we going to do, tie her up? She's earned more respect then that. Besides, if she was infected by Chaos, surely you would be able to tell. We've all been very careful about our dealings with any Lunars to make sure that we weren't tainted." Tarnessh pointed out.

"What dealings? The only way to deal with Lunars is to kill them." Greeshar's voice drops down a notch or two in volume, making him seem more dangerous than ever.