“An armed escort makes sense,” I complained. “But why six of us? I could have stayed home for at least a few more days.” “Because the Trezban Trade Route is not as safe as it once was,” my balding but bearded companion grinned back at me with his get-over-it smile. “Besides, what’s so important that you’d want to stay behind?” “Hello!” I answered, He knew full well why. “I don’t like being separated from Ellie so soon after our wedding day.” My friend’s smile widened as the look in his eyes drifted off to a memory long ago, “I do understand, Bran, indeed I do. But we serve at the baron’s will and THIS is his will.” We rode on in silence, with us at the rear, two alongside the wagon carrying whatever was so valuable, and two more at the front. It was a slow ride, slow and sweaty, a point not missed on the many flies buzzing about. After plodding along for a while I broke the silence, “What do you suppose it is? What are we guarding?” My friend did not look my way, he just stared at an outcropping of stone ahead, “Don’t know exactly, just that there is an officially sealed, valuable box that is to be delivered to one Master Felton Malforn of Applewood, at all costs.” That told me something, but not much. Then his tone turned urgent, “Did you see that?” I had not been paying very good attention, “No, what?” “Up there on those rocks, I thought I saw something mo—” A thick arrow caught him square in the sternum, right though his chain mail, and he fell off his horse to his end. I looked back up ready to shout an alarm, but two more at the front of the party were already down. That’s when the captain hollered, “To me!” and I spurred the horse forward, my heart pounding in my ears. Time seemed to crawl just then as I looked down to see a shaft with dark fletching sticking out of my chest; blood forming around the entry point. Darkness was closing in and I felt my body falling from my steed and hit the ground. This was it, the final moment, and all I could think was, “Ellie.” Come, solve “The Terror on the Trezban Trade Route," at Gen Con, Saturdat, August 17, 10-2:00,
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