the raid (ithacles)
This was the most perfect day she'd seen in a long time. Snow assaulted them from the north blowing it down their coats and clinging desperately to anything it could hold on to. It felt wonderful against her skin, she could see so well in this, so well that she was leading the both of them across the face of the mountain with ease. Ithacles was not having an easy time, but the wind howling around them and the chance that talking too much or too loudly could cause a slide kept him from saying much. Every now and then they halted in place to watch the darker objects above them climbing and moving around. To make sure they were still going somewhere.
She'd tracked them here not a week ago. And now they were ready to confront them.
The bandits had been stealing from some of the smaller towns and villages within Faustben. They'd raided a small outpost between here and the castle for supplies and left the few soldiers which had been stationed there with nothing, forcing them to abandon the post and return for more. If something had happened here, a bigger party, an army, or worse had come crawling this way no one would have been warned fast enough. They were dangerous for that. Ithunvel had been quick to assign Vedette to find them, but she was surprised that Ithacles himself had asked to go with her.
She could understand that he wanted to make sure these bandits didn't hurt his country anymore, but the weather was not ideal for anyone except her, but he didn't know that and Ithunvel certainly hadn't tried to stop his son from coming. Instead he seemed pleased. Vedette hoped he could keep up with her. Her hood was down and she seemed right at home with ice and snow stuck to her face. She was at home. Almost, a mountain or two over and she would have been right at home..
She tried not to think about it.
"We need to get higher, I saw them in a cave not far from here a week ago. I assume that's where they're keeping everything, as well as where they stay to get away from the weather." Vedette was almost smiling as she said that. Higher, she grabbed hold of the next exposed rock and pulled herself up. She waited for him on the next landing of snow. The dark shapes above them had disappeared. They were certainly in the cave now.
Now it was her turn to wait for orders. Ithacles was in charge, and she would follow his lead. She'd gotten him where they needed to be, and now he would tell her how he wanted this to go.