[Sicilien]

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"No fire it is," the bounty hunter echoed, stowing the flint and steel back inside his coat pocket.? He stood straight up, raising his arms as he popped a few joints as he stretched out.? When Chase spoke to him quietly though, he didn't answer.? He only shrugged at the dark man, turning to look at him and then changing his gaze to something else in the distance.? His feet took him to the edge of the circle where he peered over the landscape.? It was quiet, almost too quiet.? Maybe a coyote bark somewhere off in the distance, but the insects and all the other creepy crawlies seemed to be gone and that was besides the fact that Flynn's magic circle kept them out.? And like the others, the stench too hit his nostrils like a run-away train.? There was no stopping it.? Whether it was nature or that damn manikin that was causing the air to waft their way, it smelled a feast of maggots upon a freshly rotten slab of meat.

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"Right then, doesn't look like any of us'll be getting that much needed beauty sleep," Sicilien called out, glancing in Etienne's direction.? Turning around, he headed towards her, enjoying how she flinched every time he came near her, but just as he got within 5 strides of her, he switched his bearing towards Callie instead and crouched down at her and Flynn's side just as he heard the tail end of this conversation.

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"Sounds like we need to get your boy toy the hell outta dodge, eh?" he said, gently patting her on the shoulder.? He turned to look back, trying to discern how far away the walking dead were, but there was just too much in the air.? The stench was just too strong.? Reaching out to Flynn, he grabbed hold of the man and pulled him onto his back, standing up bent over as he curled his arms around the legs and moved to wrap them around his waist.? Looking back to Callie, "make sure he's good and set on me, yeah?? Don't want him falling off, and don't think I can trust the horse to canter softly enough not to shake him awake, or drop him.? Someone'll have to pull 'em along.? Shall we move him 200 yards east?? You can tell me if that'll help later."

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- Etienne -

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Etienne wasn’t really paying that much attention to Sicilien and his games right now. She wanted to live. And unfortunately despite what she could do there was nothing that she could no. So that meant she had to think.

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As she stood staring at the edge of the horizon she said. “Moving him won’t help us. By the strength of the stench, there are too many to fight. Moving him 200 yards won’t stop them from finding us. We need to leave the area...completely.” Turning to them she said.

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“And the fastest and best way to do that are the horse. The bubble he created for us is big enough for our horses. There are five of us and four house. We strapped him to the lead horse. And then we strap our horse together in a diamond. That will keep them close. Sicilien you take point Callie you take the rear and the Big guy and I will flank the sides. And we head southeast. “ she said pointing to a mountain range. “That can provide cover.”

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“It’s obvious that Something is trying to keep us from where we are trying to go. So we have to make it think it won. Once we are in the mountains we can get a decent nights sleep, something to eat and come up with a game plan. It’s either that or we split up because I’m not keen on dying for a bunch of strangers.”

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(Chase)

?‘Smart and beautiful, it was clear to see why the Sicilian was smitten with her.? Not that he could blame him at all but that was beside the point.? “Then now that we have a plan we need to move.”? He listened to her she didn’t sound at all like the server from the town in which they had met which meant, that, that too was a role.? Seems they were all playing them, he was trying to pretend to be a simple bounty hunter, the couple was a pair of agents.? He wasn’t sure exactly what his new chat partner was or the woman that now spoke with a bit of determination, but none of them were simply by any means.

??He was probably the strongest so moving their magus wouldn’t be too much of a problem for him.??Once he had moved him, he strapped him into the saddle next to his woman.??He moved with a bit of speed, not too much to have him fall loose too far in.??They did need to get someplace to regroup and recoup.

Going straight head-on had not worked so they would have to try something else and this worked for him.? He was completely hammer and this required a bit more finesse.? Which he could harken to another's plan right now.?

?“We ready?”? He said looking at the others as the scent of the dead was still getting stronger now to him at least.