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Chapter 7: The Gaiscioch na Anu
respects. He showed Alexis to small opening he had dug to circumvent Druim Ligen. As she exited the small cave Fugmug said, "forgive me mi lady, but I do not believe I asked ye your name." Alexis looked back to him and answered "Foglhadha… I shall be known only as Foglhadha". With that she turned to the long road ahead and marched off towards Emain Macha.
She arrived in Emain Macha on the first night of winter. The rains hammered Hibernia as if the Gods were angry. Another day passed and she neared the village of Failte. She found a few of Ethan's wooden animals he liked to carve while he was away and began searching for clues to where he had gone. She found a trail of footprints too large to human and followed them. By daybreak she was at the Midgard encampment. She counted at least two hundred Midgards and decided it would be best to take the slowly.
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Chapter 7: The Gaiscioch na Anu
The first was mage that had left the camp to empty his grog filled bladder. Foglhadha creped up behind him drew her dagger and slit hit throat. She then took her dagger and cut his kneecaps out of his body and placed them in her bag. She then snuck back to the foothills overlooking the camp and began sharpening the two kneecaps into four arrowheads. By nightfall she had four arrows made of bone and creped back into camp. She watched as a patrol of 5 guards began to set out to the woods. She followed the quietly.
As they entered the clearing one of them spun around at the sound of a bow being drawn. He began feeling cold and looked towards the ground to see an arrow in his chest. The troll went limp and fell to the ground. Before his body hit the floor two more arrows flew through the air hitting one troll in the chest and the other in the eye. The last two troll drew their weapons and stood back to back. The creak of one last bowshot was the last thing either of these trolls
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