[Gauls]

End brightening 2

After finding some clean (enough) water and a good spot to lay in concealment to rest, the pair were on the trail again. A very large trail to be more clear. The trampling of the ground upon which the horde had passed was a sign of how large the horde was. Junk dropped by the marching orcs was everywhere.

Kruol would get another brightening of travel nearly complete when they finally run across the first live person since leaving Ire brightenings ago. It was a human and a gnome. The human was on a wood cart pulled by a mule. The gnome, who was only about 3 feet tall, was hunched down over a metal object that had been trampled into the mud and he was brushing it off to get a better look at.

"Lookie 'ere! Got some shiny thing 'ere! Make a good price I'm sure. Yup, sure, sure." the gnome said loud enough for the human sitting on the cart to hear.

"Oh come on Gaff! We have lingered here long enough. What if more of them damn orcs come back this way!"

Kruol was about 100 feet away from the cart on the road and approaching from behind the cart. Both the human and gnome had their backs facing the worg rider but the mule starting sensing danger and began to get restless jerking upon the reigns.

"What's the matter boy?" the man said trying to control the mule.

The gnome began to look around but was looking side to side at the trees on both sides of them thinking it was something in the brush that was spoking the mule. Sparse trees did line the road all the way back to where Kruol was. The wind was blowing against them and so their scent reaching the two pan handlers was not going to be an issue. What was not clear was how the two were armed. So far, no weapons could be seen. That didn't mean that the gnome didn't have some gadget or magic of some sort to call upon.