[NPC Post]

[b][color=#4269E2]"We didn't find anything belonging to the kidnappers, sans the arrows."[/color][/b] Given enough time they'd probably try recover that too, but perhaps going into a prolonged shootout wasn't in their plan and they ended up firing more than it's possible to clean up.

Anderson really wished he had more things to show, but there had been minimum development for the past five days.

[b][color=#4269E2]"With all due respect ma'am, the timing coincides too much with the attack on the king."[/color][/b] Interjected the squire. They didn't wait and strike at the most opportune time. This was a coordinated strike. [b][color=#4269E2]"Rorthgaard? I'll have people look into it."[/color][/b]

And at the order of moving out, Anderson took out a rolled up parchment map from a tube. It depicted an area of the forest, the map itself a precious thing yet as it stood it's filled with scribbled markings. A section of it was lightly greyed out with a pencil, and there's an X somewhere near the edge of it.

[b][color=#4269E2]"We've combed the greyed area so far."[/color][/b] The marking splayed like stubby zig-zag roots, indicating the trails left behind by the kidnappers. Two of them were much longer than the rest. [b][color=#4269E2]"These two were duds, we found the boot in here. They're not making it easy to follow either."[/color][/b]