Hostages and prisoners
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he cart proceeded along an unpaved and unmapped path within the forest. The coachmen were two trusted men from Campo Libero. The woman, Kaylis, rode in the tail of the cart to guard the prisoners.
The three young men sat, tied up, gagged and blindfolded inside the towed cart. A few barrels of cider were stowed on board with them, to be used certainly as a justification for entering the city. Hombros was definitely worthy of being called the capital of the kingdom. It was a very large city within a valley surrounded by acres and acres of cultivated land.
The group had left in the early afternoon and would soon reach the main road that crossed the first sown land. They would encounter a couple of villages inhabited mainly by farmers and ranchers. At the exi
