Chapter four The Bump in the Road

Alex steeps forward weary from a long day of walking and a length of rope goes taught around her foot and swings up a tree into a cage up the she sees lots of ropes and Gilden was about to step in one!

"Stop don't step there!" Alex cries out just in time. Gilden steps back and doesn't fall into the trap.

"Alex! Where are you!" He shouts with dismay. Alex looks around surveying her environment shes in a cage made of a strong metal,probably iron or melasc, the cage has a ceiling that closed and locked when she fell in a, solid bottom and bars without room to slide out, she only now notes that she twisted her ankle, the cage is nearly right above Gilden.

"Look up I'm in a cage and I twisted my ankle the top closed and locked when I fell in I can't brake the bars!" She shouts and many things happen at once they hear the sound of a horn sounding Gilden sees her and bounds up the tree reaches the top and takes the rope and makes it look like the trap is still set as soon as he's done a group of short people on horses, probably halflings, ride down the path the leader, the the tallest one with a red hoarse brown breeches and a golden tunic, shouts

"Ok no traps sprung let's move on anyway once in nothing can escape not even the smartest elf!" Now all this time they had been silent but at this Gilden breathes sharply and one of the of the halflings near the back looks up, he's wearing brown breeches and a red shirt, and shouts

"I heard some thing up there!" as he points towards you luckily the trees hid it.

"Well what did you hear Sackly?" The leader shouts. Alex signals down ,when near the edge she's visible, to stop or say it was nothing.

"Uh never mind it was probably nothing" Sackly stammers looking embarrassed. The party moves on and Sackly lags behind and signals that he'll be back and then catches up with the party. When the party moves out of ear shot Gilden tries to open the lock its noisy and accomplishes nothing, next he try's to pry the hatch open and fails. Nothing left to do but wait for Sackly.