The Pass to Archenland (From Narnia and the North): Free RP

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"My thanks to both message writer and message bearer. In view of the marksmanship of the accursed Goblins, I advise you, Retaw, to fly very high, out of arrow range, until you are safely on the Archenland side."

Ninecatcher's gaze now took in both Marius, and the Dwarf who had spoken earlier. "Just as Bryan is giving guidance to the Gryphon, I need any guidance I can get for the overland run with my passengers. Can you tell me the best path to take to reach the shores of the Eastern Ocean?"
 
"Woods are much more my environment," remarked Ninecatcher. "Snow is strange to me, but that would be worse--WAS worse--in the mountains anyway. If you think it even IS safe to take rest first in this cave, I'll give my passengers time to sleep, then set out before sunrise. Young Faun, are you indeed coming along? I can carry you and the girl on my back, but I need to know."
 
The dwarf begins to say it should be plenty safe to give them time to sleep, but Marius interrupts him. "I disagree, she has many spies, even friends with the some of the trees. She probably already knows there gone and soon may know we're here. I suggest haste. Travel as soon as possible, Ninecatcher."


The faun looks at his brother and back at the Tigress, the at his brother. "If you please, miss Tigress I'd go for the girl's sake. But He's my brother, may I come back?
 
"Young lad," said Ninecatcher to the Faun, "if you come with me, my immediate concern will be getting you TO Archenland. Once there, it won't be my responsibility if you decide to turn right around and go back the next hour. But you may actually be doing your brother more good if you stay in Archenland. I can see that not only tyranny is going to afflict this country, but also famine."

She nuzzled the girl { will somebody please NAME this kid? } awake. "Get up, dear child. I'm sorry, but we have to get going now."
 
OOC: Just call her Harmony

The girl blinks awake and yawn tiredly. "Okay. She looks to those who helped her here."Thanks." The younger faun looks to his brother sadly and afraid and hugs him tightly. "I'll come." he says to the Tigress.
 
OOC: What I was shown by that map link, I will think of as having been told to the Tigress by Marius.

Ninecatcher turned to her human friend. "Sir Bryan, have you even a small morsel of food that the little ones could carry away and eat as we go? The only food I would likely be able to find for them on this journey is raw meat, not the most appetizing thing for them."

OOC: Any giving of rations can be written in retroactively.

Soon the Faun was mounted on the Tigress' back, just behind her shoulders. "Don't worry about my comfort as you hold on, as long as you don't gouge my eyes. I would rather have my ears twisted in your grasp, than have you fall off and have to retrieve you." The girl Harmony next was seated behind the Faun, where she could hold on to the Faun's waist. Then everyone committed each other to Aslan's care, and Ninecatcher took off into the night with her two small riders, making for the vicinity of Glasswater Creek.

OOC: Does this put me in Southern Marches or Great Woods? If the latter, I remind everyone as a matter of biology that any two wolves are a trivial joke to any adult tiger.
 
Retroactively, "Yes in deed I have food." He reached into his rucksack and pulled out a wedge of cheese and portion of bread. Dividing them up, he handed them to starved, saying, "Eat slowly, it's better for the digestion. Plus your stomach needs to adjust slowly to food, deprivation, I'm sure, has had a negative effect".

He turned to Marius, after seeing Ninecatcher off, "Where now do we head?"
 
After saying farewells in the cave, Ninecatcher spent the better part of an hour concentrating on only three things: listening and smelling for danger, making sure the Faun and Harmony didn't fall off her back, and covering distance. She had no experience at covering a trail through snow, and reckoned that trying to figure it out would only give possible hunters more time to overtake her. After travelling at least four miles by grim determination despite the snow impeding her, she called a halt. "Off of my back, little ones, and let us all huddle closely for awhile, to recover somewhat from this chill." It would, of course, be mostly she warming them; but that was all right, her exertions had been keeping her warm.

Her senses remained alert for danger. To the Faun she remarked, "It is impossible to foresee everything that could happen. But one possibility is that servants of the Enemy might begin overtaking us. If pursuit in force appears to be gaining, I might call upon you to take Harmony into your care and run for it without me. Meaning no offense, you would be no help to me in a fight against powerful foes; and if it should be my last fight, it will be one that I accepted willingly, and my soul shall be in Aslan's keeping. If I perish, and you live to see my husband, tell him that I died remembering our night among the waterlilies. This will both convey my love to him, and prove to him your genuineness."
 
The faun and the girl get off. The faun listens gravely and nods.
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*Marius coming soon*
 
Since the Mods haven't sent five thousand dragons to attack Ninecatcher yet, she takes advantage of the lull. Having given her two passengers a time of warming up against her furry body, she gets them remounted on her back and continues eastward, looking for highway exit signs to tell her whether it's Southern Marches or Great Woods that she's heading into.
 
Retaw arrived to Archenland and looked for Ninecatcher's husband, but unfurtunately at the end of the day there were no signs of him.
 
~ ~ Aravis-Y, at this moment Gripstone can be treated as a non-player character, i.e. you CAN "find" him in the care of some humans and can write both sides of a conversation with him if I'm not on to play him. I haven't BEEN playing him because of the restrictions. I never did make up the particular humans caring for him, but it's okay if you do some inventing there.
 
"I suggest we shed anything that is unnecessary to carry. We don't need the extra weight, nor do we need the noise it can generate. I'm strong with a sword, but I'm equally savvy with a bow, so I'll carry both, for whichever situation may arise. I suggest we head out immediately, seeing as Ninecatcher is on her way with the young ones. What say you?"
 
The Centaur and dwarfs and Faun discuss it for awhile and get rid of some stuff and they start to head out. Marius leaves tracks and trails that lead nowhere except back to the cave again.
 
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Retaw looked and looked, until in a very hidden and dark cave he heard some movement. He entered very cautiosly, "Is anybody there?" he said but there was no answer, "Hello...???" he said, but again there was no answer, "mmm... I know I heard some movement in here" he thought, "I'm looking for Gripstone, I have a message from his wife Ninecatcher" he said in a very loud voice, but not screaming, He saw a dark shape comming from a side of the cave it was a human, "Follow me" he said, Retaw followed the human until they got to a place felled of candle lights, there where more humans, some dwarfs and a Tiger at the end of the room, the human pointed to the Tiger, so Retaw supposed that it was Gripstone.
Gripstone saw that a young Gryphon had entered to the cave and that the human pointed at him, so when Retaw aproach he said "Who are you and what are your business here?", "I've been sent by Ninecatcher" Gripstone startded to hear more attently "To deliver a message to you sir" so Retaw gived the pergamin that was for him to give, "I'm now to leave sir" said Retaw, "wait... Yuo may like to stay a while, you've been flying for a long time", Retaw didn't finded the way to say no "uuuuhhh... ok Sir I will"
 
This being in Archenland, Narnian creatures did not need to hide from Jadis, whose magic didn't work on this side of the mountains. But in anticipation of increasing refugee immigration, the King of Archenland had urged the putting to use of every available sort of shelter; and a cave den had been perfectly acceptable to Tiger Gripstone as a place for his convalescence. The inclusion of Ninecatcher's joke about eating fish scales had not only proven to him that the message written by Lieutenant-Captain Bryan was truly at her dictation, but had bolstered Gripstone's optimism about seeing her again.

"You must be hungry, worthy Gryphon," said the Tiger to Retaw. "They provided me some smoked mutton; it's not bad, for cooked meat. I had my fill for now, and there's a few pounds of it left. Please help yourself, while the officer in charge here looks over the other message you brought for the Archenlandish authorities."
 
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