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Tyler lays the map on the floor and waits for Matt to point it out. "It's here...in the East Servian mountain range. It's very far from here," Matt says. "The master keeps this area's army here," Matt says, pointing out a location almost right below their current location. "There are horses and there's food and-"

Tyler covers his mouth, "Can you take us there?" Tyler asks, prompting Matt to nod.

"So, do we go by ourselves or take this asshole with us?" Tyler asks Ellie and Dorian, hoping for a vote.

East Servian area? Where the hell is that? Ellie purses her lips in concentration, her eyes darting from Matt to the map as she tries to weigh out both the positives and negatives of bringing him along. Eventually the cloudy concentrated look from her expression disappears and she raises her head. "We should bring him along." she replies. "We obviously have an advantage over him if he tries to attack us, and we don't have much time to get lost at this point."

"Looks like you get to live another day meat sack" Dorian says to the captive while taking his hand off of his sword and looking at Tyler and Ellie awaiting them to decide what to do next more than happy to follow seeing as he doesn't have a map and he was going to kill the man responsible for Seluné's murder.

[OOC: Sorry for the late reply, at a water park]

"It's getting pretty late, I think it might be best if we get some sleep," Tyler says. He is tired, and now that the andrenaline has calmed down, he knows. "It might just be me, but it's been a damn long day," Tyler yawns.

"Yes, finally, sleep." Ellie agrees wholeheartedly, finally giving into her drowsiness and slumps down the tree she was resting on. "Do we just pass out here or..?" she mumbles, her head already tilting to the side as her eyes began to close. She forcefully tries to keep them awake, but her attempts fail almost humorously.

"I'll take the first watch." Dorian says keeping his little fire loss but still burning enough to provide some heat, he then starts pulling out his two swords, his daggers in his boots and a few throwing knives from his cloak and starts sharpening all of his weapons in silence.

"Thanks," Tyler says, laying down far away from everyone, allowing him space to talk to himself. He gets settled and, quite surprisingly, that forest growth is comfortable. "I'll take shift two, we should let her sleep," Tyler whispers to Dorian.

"I've never heard of The East Servian mountains...or the Opal Palace. Tomorrow we head to the fort. We need food and bandages...we need..." Tyler nods off and falls asleep mid-sentence.

"No, no, I should take first watch..." says Ellie as she seems to sink into slumber, constantly opening her eyes. Her vision begins to fade and her brain aches for rest. "I'm, like, the least injured out of all of you...'cept poor Matt, of course..." Her lips twitch in a faint smirk before she sighs, lulling her head to the side. "Forget about it...sorry..." And then she's gone, in the oblivion of sleep.

Dorian smiles at Ellie before sharpening his blades again, once he tests the edge and he finds it suitable he puts it away and begins work on the next blade. The only one he doesn't even take out of its sheath is in the center of his sword belt behind him. The pommel has the same design he brands himself with. Once all of his blades are to his satisfaction he figures about three hours have passed. "Give 'em a couple more." Dorian says to himself before mumbling "I'm sorry I couldn't return the favor." To himself as he touches his letter from Seluné.
"Huh?" Matt asks
"Nothing you little shit, get some shut eye before I take them from your head and point them towards you so you can watch yourself in your final moments." Dorian says in all seriousness which makes Matt lie back down as quick as he could without aggravating his already numerous injuries and falls asleep. Dorian goes over to Tyler a couple hours from first light and gently taps his foot "your watch." Dorian says before going over to a tree, and sits down while leaving against it, legs crossed and hands on the hilts of his swords "Goodnight Seluné" Dorian says under his breath before showing himself to succumb to sleep.

Tyler sits by the fire and smiles as the warmth covers his body. After sitting for two hours in pure silence, Tyler turns to Matt. The boy isn't asleep, he just stares at the sky. "Hey," Tyler says, keeping his voice low. Matt sits up slowly, expecting the worse.

"Y-yeah?" He asks slowly and cautiously.

Tyler passes him a water sack, and looks at the kid. "You're young..." Tyler says, searching for the right words to follow. "How did you get mixed up in all this shit?" Tyler asks. His voice is honest and clear, without the slightest hint of anger or intimidation. "You let yourself be tortured to defend this guy...and you don't even know him."

"T-they brought me in when nobody would. My parents were gone, my friends gone...I was alone. Then they started recruiting. I owe everything to the Master, yet I still betrayed him..." Matt says, holding his head in his hands.

"You kill people...children. Women. Doesn't that affect you at all?" Tyler asks.

"I kill for my master. I kill because the only person who is important to me wants me to. Why do you kill? What's your reason?" Matt asks, he backs down quickly. After drinking some more water he hands the water back to Tyler.

"Get some sleep, tomorrow's going to be a long day," Tyler says, turning to look at the fire.

"Are you going to kill me?" Matt asks.

The fire seems to burn brighter than ever, filling up the void in the night sky. The smoke floats straight up into the starry darkness. No wind. The perfect night. And Tyler sits, staring into the fire silently because the one thing he knows is that he doesn't know what to do.

Ellie's slumber is mostly peaceful and quiet, with no dreams as usual. She only sees a deep pit of darkness as she sleeps. Her frequent dreaming began to fade away as soon as she become an assassin, going through stress-filled training sessions and seeing other people - enemies - getting killed right in front of her. But now, she sees the dark pit beginning to lighten up, an unusual sight for someone who hasn't been dreaming for the past year. Her sleepy vision adjusted to the darkness and then she saw the very same girl who had died in Tyler's arms.

"Serra?" the voice echoes through the atmosphere, and Ellie wasn't sure if this was her own voice or someone else's. Her mind feels distant and hazy, like she's going to be trapped in this realm forever. Serra's big, wide eyes stares at her, in wonder as well as confusion. Her face breaks out into a wide smile, a gesture that made stubborn Ellie grin as well. The scene only lasts for a moment before Serra's face transforms into a blood-curdling scream, making her ears hurt even though they're both in a dream. Her vision begins to fade, the black spots reoccurring, and all El can remember was the sound of crying.

She wakes up with a jolt, her eyes wide. Her mouth opens, about to exclaim 'Serra', before she realizes that it was only a dream. As she begins to move, her neck aches in pain. She had been curled up in a quite awkward position on the ground, that had horrible after-effects. With a small groan she sits up and rubs her eyes, surprised when she feels moisture coming from them - tears? How odd. After her vision is cleared of drowsiness, she looks up and wonders if it was time for her shift.

Dorian wakes up to find Tyler Ellie and Matt. "Hey meat sack, how long till we get to your master?" Dorian asks Matt. Standing up and stretching, he pulls out his letter and kisses it before putting it away again. "How are you two today?" Dorian asks Tyler and Ellie his wrists resting on his swords pommels.

"Well, considering we haven't moved an inch yet..." Matt stops himself and changes his mood. He cringes in pain after talking, the beating taking its toll. "The fort I'm taking you to is the rendezvous of all local troops, though last night you killed quite the big chunk of people," Matt tries to get up, then buckles under his own weight, screaming in pain. "I-I can't walk," he says, looking around for anyone's empathy.

"Tired...head hurts," Tyler mumbles, staring at the now burned-out fire. "Took your shift..." Tyler says, the tone in his voice gets higher as if he is trying to make a joke. Tyler grabs his water and chugs it down. He yawns, "You're welcome," Tyler mumbles, almost inaudible, to Ellie. "I'm just dandy!" Tyler fakes a smile and squeezes out some enthusiasm.

"You took my shift?!" Ellie's eyes grow wide in complete astonishment and she sighs in frustration, feeling a bit of guilt seeping into her. "You idiot! Why didn't you just wake me up?" she says, frowning at how he grumbles about his headache. If only I didn't have that stupid dream... She rests a hand on her still aching neck, the muscles there tight with strain. "I feel like I've been sleeping for twelve years under a bed." she mutters in response, her voice twinging with irritation.

She looks to their injured captive, before standing up and stretching a bit. "I didn't take care of your wounds that much, might as well now." she says to him, walking over to Matt before pulling out a small package of gauze and medicine. Her voice is stern, and slightly comforting. "Once I finish these, you'll hopefully be up and walking."

Dorian smiles mailciously at the thought that Matt will be walking again. "I'm assuming Tyler didn't wake you up because you passed out." He pulls some ginseng from a pocket in his cloak and throws it to Tyler "Chew that and drink some water you'll be right as rain." Dorian says to Tyler before looking at Matt "not so sure about you though."
Dorian starts walking back towards the town "Gonna resupply, you two need anything?" Dorian asks Tyler and Ellie over his shoulder.

"You were sleeping," Tyler says, yawning then chuckling at Ellie's reaction, "looked peaceful," Tyler does as Dorian says, chewing the plant and drinking water. "I'm fine," he says to Dorian.

Tyler gets up from the fire, "I'm gonna...gonna get the, um, the, uh," Tyler thinks for a second then speaks, "crutch. Stick for him," Tyler snaps his fingers at Matt. "Yeah, I'll do that," Tyler stumbles into the nearby forest, his stumbling making it look like he is drunk off his ass.

Ellie shakes her head in disapproval, the guilt in her increasing as she sees him chew the plant Dorian gave him. "I don't care, you should have woken me up anyway. And since when do I look 'peaceful'?" she whines, carefully applying disinfectant to one of Matt's wounds, going by the most harshest to the least. "Alright, I call first watch the next time we all have a little sleepover."

She applies pressure to the wound, quickly stopping the bleeding on Matt's injuries. "Food." she says to Dorian, simply and quietly. "Anything will work. I can't kill on an empty stomach." A hint of a smirk twitches at the edge of her lips before she looks to the stumbling Tyler. "Be careful, you clumsy barbarian!" she shouts over to him, her tone teasing.

Dorian walks into the town, or what's left of it and starts scavenging. He enters a house that's miraculously still in tact "This looks promising." He says to himself. He enters the house and starts looking around and finds some meat, bread and a small jar of honey. "Very nice." Dorian says. As he's leaving he sees a young girl holding her baby brother. Both children are dead. He starts walking back to the camp with the food once back he drops it all next to Ellie before heading Matt by his collar "Time to get creative you little bastard"
"Please no!" Matt yells
"How many did you kill? How many lives did you claim? Did you kill a little girl and her infant brother? We're you a part of the raid on the village to the east? Did you kill Seluné?!" Dorian yells before throwing Matt into a tree and drawing his swords "Stand and meet death with What ever dignity you might have left!"

Tyler continues searching for sticks, finding it hard when his vision is blurred. Tyler splashes some of his water into his face and runs his eyes, watching a surprisingly large amount of dust come off onto his fingers. Tyler quickly finds a large branch, something that could be easily split into to two crutches. "Time to head back..." Tyler says to himself, tiredly dragging the stick behind him, completely unaware of the scene unfolding at camp.