Loop around and hide near the hostages #55

You lead the three soldiers into the darkness, casting stones one after another. When they decide to go back, you let out a small growl, imitating a Tailmain. The sound of the nasty nocturnal predator puts them on the defensive and they reposition themselves, placing their backs against one another.
This gives you the opportunity to quietly make your way back to the hostages. As you get closer to the light, you can see the bodies slumped against the far embankment. You grit your teeth.
This is wrong on so many levels.
They look so innocent and fragile.
What are these beasts doing? Traitors! The thought of honor-bound soldiers placing the lives of innocent citizens in danger irks you. But this is worse—these people have been kidnapped!
You have to act fast. Get around to the other side of the camp—get to these people and get them out of here. You don’t know why you feel such an obligation, you don’t even know who they are. But you do feel an obligation.
A soft chirp catches your attention.
Valda! But you can’t see her as you scan the tree line. Dorbane should be nearby too.
Another mixture of chirps and you know exactly what to do—hide!
Moments later, the soldiers come back.
They stomp into camp, the smallest of the three sinking back down onto the log at the fire—plunging his sword into the dirt next to him.
“Gunther!” snaps the largest of the soldiers, “Slit their throats…or I’ll slit yours!”
The big man, apparently the leader, walks to the opposite edge of the camp and sits down on a rock. He pulls a sack onto his lap and starts searching.
Gunther starts talking to the soldier hunched near the fire.
Now is the only chance you’re going to have!

Untie the hostages, go to page #49
Try to wake a hostage up, go to page #56