"Well no, it didn't," Laz said, as he directed Chloe to the small foot stool that stood in front of the only chair in the room. She sat down on it, leaned back a little bit and spread her legs, the red on her face obvious.
"Alright, so while the river carried us south at a decent pace, that didn't matter much as the waves of beasts were running faster than the river could carry us. One of our men had a suggestion, that there was a fortified town close by that we could probably take cover in. And while we still had beasts in the area, we could only assume most of them had stopped at the fortress as we only ran across the occasional lone beast on our way. So far so good right?" Laz said, sitting in front of the woman and bringing the stool closer. Laz then rested his arms on her legs and using the scissors he had pulled from his storage ring, began his work.
