[NPC Post]

[b][color=#38b000]"...just how many of you are there?"[/color][/b] Reinhold's gaze shifted from Matilda to the talking bear and the unnerving old man before returning to Matilda. The amount of intruders seemed to increase every time and they're all very much interested in Birk's killer. [b][color=#38b000]"Wait, no. They did something at the royal forest, didn't they? And now you're looking for them."[/color][/b]

Probably would've arrived at that conclusion earlier, had he not be completely sleep-deprived.

[b][color=#38b000]"Had no chance to get close. They're alert at all times. Think they've got a short prisoner. I've tracked them to... somewhere. A small village with a lord's fort overlooking it. Around northwest, two days on foot travel from here. Ain't know the name of the place, ne'er been that far out before. But I can make it back."[/color][/b] He blinked twice at the mention of Gerhard. [b][color=#38b000]"Old Gerhard should be at his farm. He hardly ever leave anymore these days. Why?"[/color][/b]

Meanwhile, Bertolf and Ingmar was completely taken by the offer of food. They glanced at each other, at Reinhold, before back to Cedar and nodded almost too eagerly.[i] "Food? We could use some food, aye! Ain't gotten much ta eat this week. Prey's very poor, I tell ya! All dem' peat harvesters scarin' away the animals!"[/i]