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 The evidence you have uncovered regarding the Morg gives you reason to consider carefully which way you should go. You have taken too much time finding your way through this forest, but the knowledge that the Hordim are so close is a truth better known than discovered too late. For a time you consider what you should do, but the choice has been taken out of your hands. Pallenten has eaten all your rations and you will have to get more before you can continue. Miller's Crossing must be your next objective. There you will find food and anything else you might need. It is a decision easy to make. Too many times you have felt the pangs of hunger and you do not feel disposed to endure them again if there is an alternative.
Quickly you mount Pallenten and head into the south-east. The ground is open, a wide grassland of undulating rises that Pallenten takes to easily. It is your hope that by taking a heading south of east you will intersect the South Road a good distance beyond Baellum. There the road should be clear and your journey will be the easier for it. About you there is little to be seen though. The grasslands extend for a great distance in all directions, and but for a few old ruins, mostly abandoned farmhouses and other buildings, you can see nothing that might indicate you are anything but alone in these wildlands. For the moment that is exactly as you prefer it.
Upon the grassland Pallenten is a dark arrow, the world a rush of pounding hooves and wind-blown grasses. As the great horse thunders on you find yourself lost in your thoughts, the possibilities of your quest stretching out before you. It is a strange circumstance that you find yourself in, and there is much you believe the Kalboreans have not told you, not the least being how you will remove the metal collar when your quest is done.
It does not take long to find the South Road. Just to the south of a ruined homestead you cross the highway and come to a halt.
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Before you stretches a clear road to Miller's Crossing. Turning to all four directions you scan the horizon for danger. All is clear except for the north-west where you can see storm-clouds building. It will be best if you can find shelter in town before the storm hits. Turn to section 251
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