The Western Road

Tania was sprinting from the gate of the White City, hopefully Birdie was keeping up. Only about 2 miles away from the gate sat a group of new rangers and a few veterans. "She finally showed up. I miss anything?"

One of the veterans shook his head "no."

Tania looked at the group, "We are pairing up. We will be patrolling the Areas along this road today. Over the next several weeks you'll get acquainted with these roads and the borderlands. Last of which being the Eastern Warfront. This is the rally point. The sun starts to set, head this way."

The veterans started moving, their pups following behind as they scattered from the road.

Tania looked to Birdie, "We'll just be walking the road today, back and forth between the gate and the port."

"Relax. The rangers focus less on rank when we are in the field. You see something that needs done you do it, or if you can't tell someone else to do it. We have squad leaders and such but our cloaks don't have the rank markers that other soldiers do. Your a centurion, so eventually you'll be put in charge of 10 people, like the group we're apart of. While I over see 222 Rangers, in the field I only lead 10."

"We got some reports that wraiths were lurking in the area, but I doubt we'll see them. Its and old report. Past that... It should be a nice walk. Should be. You never know what could happen out here. Occasionally something random will happen. Or a farmer will ask for assistance with some vermin in the region. This assignment is quite easy. Later we will be getting much more... exciting assignments." She looked at Birdie, walking backwards, "So...who is the lucky boy? I could smell it on you earlier," she tapped her nose almost proudly, "you should have bathed."

Tania turned aroun facing front once more, "Draw your bow and aim at a joint in its armor. Runed arrow, the one that can flash really brightly, rumor has it that if light breaches its armor it dies... rumor has it anyway." Tania turned back around, "Was it Ender? You guys hated each other so much in training, I though it might be sexual tension."

"Well if its not one of the rangers... The only other guys you know are Shaxx and Jorech, and Shaxx was with me." Tania's eyes widened, "The King?!"

Tania stopped walking and started laughing, "I'll keep your secret. Though every woman in Aaedan would wish they were you. The king's got all those... muscles. Even compared to other Aaedanians he is just... Gorgeous." Tanai's cheeks were a bit flushed at the thoughts, "So... how was he?"

Tania started walking once more, "Well, your lucky. Every girl in the White City wants to sleep with him... Rumor has it that he either ignores the hints or simply doesn't notice them."

A lower ranking foward scout from Nat'ia's unit found himself off hidden to the side of road. His stance was prone in grass with his knife in his right hand resting against the dirt ready to move if need be. Unluckily for him he was watching down the wrong way of the road meaning the pair could almost walk up right behind him.