Prolog+-+Priya,+Rose,+and+Traest

Priya, Rose, and Traest
Having saved the bardess Rose from certain doom, Priya returns home, her journeyman's mission unfulfilled.

Sitting at dinner with her father, Priya learns of terrors that have been slowly creeping up from Havenland. Deciding to head towards Lorehollow for safety, and to warn the villages on the way of the travesties occuring in their neighboring kingdoms.

During the night, the two girls are attacked by several small, strange creatures resembling demonic bats. Outnumbered and surrounded, it was sheer luck that the two were rescued by a traveling knight named Traest Bura'dren. He has come up from the boarderlands bearing a message for the King and Queen.

"Havenland marches on Nys."

He stands guard over the girls during the night, and in the morning they reach the Greenswift River. After no longer than an hour of traveling, they happen upon three strange people trespassing into Nys....