Subject: Re: The Farm

"Taken, would be my guess. Either to be made into mindless slaves with cursed parchment chained around their necks, or to be turned into more of the walking dead by the dark god. I do not know what they plan for them, but they were marched toward the mountain days ago."

"The man who was killed in the town... he must have been held there for several days if he did not know his family was more than just under threat of violence. They knew we would be coming, and used him as their mouthpiece. It does not bode well."

He looks at the sprawling mass of townsfolk and adds, "it wouldn't be hard to know where we are coming from and going at this point."

[Rennik will avoid the human encampment and take to the trees on patrol. If possible, he will scout with Melani, and they can trade off sleep and watch with one another. He will look for any sign of prisoner movement, or anything else out of the ordinary.]