While The Cat's Away...
From NorCon MUSH
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Message: 5/9 Posted Author
While the cat's away... Sun May 31 N'thei
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With the collective attention of the Weyr turned toward their Sands, the
"new friends" they've made recently have reared their heads again. On the
night of the Hatching, taking time to work its way out to the Weyr now
that the roads are muddy messes, a waystation near Nabol was sacked by
people who, it was eventually determined, must be related to those that
have been raiding the Reaches' tithes the past weeks. Late in the night,
all clad in black, they looted the stores, loading it into one of the
waystation's own wagons for transport. The following morning, the Nabolese
realized that one of their sons had been taken in the raid, a boy in his
late teens, quite the promising lad. All hopes are that he's being held
for ransom and not just in a ditch somewhere. The following day, a string
of similar raids happened at smaller farmholds off the main road; by all
indications, the culprits were headed back toward the Reaches itself,
though they seem to have disappeared off the map, with no sign of them by
sweeps riders in the area.
All hopes that the botched raid, the one that arrived in tact with Reaches
riders escorting it, had put an end to the thefts are now officially
dashed. The glass-half-full people keep remarking that, with winter
closing in, a respite must be coming. The glass-half-empty people just
point out that it'll be that much more miserable to catch a thief in a
snowstorm.
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