Chapter 7: The Southern Road
After taking care of a few things in town, the party, now six in number counting Kevril and Yasha, follows Kathel on the road south out of Westbank.
Lazaret and Therarak share the one of the horses while Celador and Thorfire share a second (OOC: feel free to change ridership if you'd prefer). Yasha rides the third horse, while Kethel and Kevril ride their own personal steeds.
The journey is fairly quick and comfortable for all except for Celador and Thorefire, who drew the unfortunate lot of riding Ol' Charlie, who the elf fights for most of the trip. The stubborn horse is last to start and last to stop, difficult to turn and generally just a miserable ride, but he still beats walking.
After about 8 miles (a little under an hour for the trotting horses), Kethel holds up a hand to signal all to stop. "We're almost there," she explains. "Around the next hill there's a sheer wall. Inside that wall runs a host of orc bandits."
As described by Kathel, a wall runs along the western side of the road. From the road to the top of the wall is a good 140 feet. To the east of the road, another drop, not quite as steep, into scrub and brush below. She warns the orcs they encountered fired out of multiple cave openings in the wall.
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