I don't own RK. I'm only writing for fun not money.

I will get my other stories update sometime next week. When school starts I'll probably only update once a week.

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To Move On

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Ch.8 The Plan

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Aoshi set up camp, while Lara went out to scout. When she returned he had food cooking over the fire. "There about six miles down the valley," she said pointing toward the lake.

"So, now what? Are we going to stop them or just wait it out?" Aoshi asked.

"I can't let them get any closer to this herd than they are. If I'm to keep this farm running I'll need those broodmares."

"Okay. So lets get planning. We need to work fast."

"They have around a dozen people with them. Now there's two of us. Six each. They put out three or four guards every three hours and they are set at intervals around the horses. From the looks of the herd they have they must have sold at least half the herd. The best of my father's horses are still there. They set two guards around the camp.

"I'll take the three on the west side and you take the east. Then, well do you have any ideas? I'm better at taking the guards than the camp."

A smile crept over Aoshi's lips as he looked at her. "How about you take the guards and when you're done I'll take the camp. The ones who make it we can take to the officials."

"We either do it tomorrow morning or tomorrow night."

"Lets do it at night. There's a full moon and we can have all tomorrow to watch them. We both need a little rest, both of us."

Lara sighed, "Your right. It's been a long night. How is breakfast?"

"It's about ready." He cast a glance around the canyon. "It's so peaceful here. Have you or your father ever thought of putting building a house?"

"No see that large oak there, next to the lake. There's a huge tree house there. It was there before my father even bought this place, but it's a little run down. We haven't used it for two years."

"So lets work on it. We have all day today and tomorrow."

They ate a large hot breakfast and went up into the tree house. Large didn't even begin to describe it. The oak in which it was built was at least three hundred years old. A stair wrapped around the trunk to the floor of the tree house. The railings were carved with flowers and vines. The house itself had the same carvings. There were a total of eight rooms and what seemed to be a kitchen. The curtains and any fabric were gone, but other than that it seemed to have been used just recently.

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They had moved all the packs up into the house. Now all they had to do was wait a few hours until the sun sunk and then they would put their plan in motion.

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Crystal Unicorn2: I'm happy you don't mind that there short and that you liked it.

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