You decide that showing up at the barracks is trouble waiting to happen, and that waiting for the Captain to find you is out of the question. That leaves you only one choice: getting out of town and as far away as possible as fast as possible.
You make your apologies to Seth, and sneak through the village, hoping to find some sort of transportation, like the two legged Ostrich-horses you'd seen around, but nothing turns up. Cursing your bad luck, you leave by foot. The sun is already beginning to set, so you chose to run, trying to put as much distance between you and town as possible.
As you run, you realize you have chosen a terrible path: the sides are lined with trees far too closely bunched to run through, the path is muddy, which slows you down and will make it easier for someone to pursue you if they chose, and it's leading constantly uphill. By nightfall, you've only run a couple miles, and are beginning to tire. There is no clear place to camp. You turn around and look at the town, which, thanks to the multitudes of lamps lit there you still see clearly. Looking along the path, you scan for pursuit. |