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Even in times of war, there will always be those stubborn few who just refuse to let the possibility of being horribly, brutally murdered stop them from carrying on with their lives. Jacob, his brother Frank, and his sister Lisa were pretty much these few when it came to the village of Radiant.

Even in these troubled time, they were out there, caring for their crops. It was hard to nurture them with the river dried up, but these folks did their damnedest.

"See?" Jacob was saying to his sister, who had been nagging him about how they were all going to die for the entire day. "I told you there was nothing to worry about. No one's going to attack these fields."

Jacob and co. initially panicked when they saw Veronica coming towards them, then breathed a collective sigh of relief when they saw what she was riding.

"The mayor must've sent out people to guard us..." Lisa muttered.

Then Veronica's screeching voice reached her ears, and she winced. "But maybe he's getting a little senile." She turned earnestly to Jacob. "If he thinks its necessary to send guards, shouldn't we be getting out of here?"

Jacob shrugged. "Nah, there's no rush, or he wouldn't have sent just one. Besides, it'll only take a little while to finish up."

Frank, ever friendly, waved back to Veronica. "Hello, there, miss! Good day to you!"

Shade quickly toggled his cloak back on, it fluttered for a moment before coming to rest all about his body. Masking him in it's invisible protection he followed after everyone else who seemed to be stampeeding through the area, but at a slower and more cautious pace. Of course it wasn't like you could actually see him unless you were insideously close and by then he probably had you with a knife in the back. Noticing that the forest was about to end the Vindicare quickly hopped up into a nearby tree. With almost ape like precision he rounded about on it and pulled the rifle from his back. Settling upon the tree on a very large branch that was sufficient enough to hold his weight, leaves adding to his cover. His eye looked into the scope and stared at the girl who he could not hear, but her lips told the story for him. At any moment though he would have to move if he needed to, so he lowered his gun just waiting for it.

"Obviously nothing to be worried about here yet." Jacknife agreed as he scanned the area. He spotted something hiding in the trees on his MTPA. He did not bother even raising his gun though. It had to be whoever was following Veronica earlier. For one it was the same shape, for another it hadent shot at them yet. He kept an eye on it out of the corner of his eye as he made his way through the grasses to Veronica and the villagers. "Any sign of anything we should be concerned about?" He asked.

“Nothing yet, keep down with your eyes open.” Mozz continued to sneak, the plains were a big place, and there were more ahead. He continued on until the newsewn plains merged with the blazing plains, then Mozz turned giving a wave to their allies , showing that he was freindly. After which, with the company of jackknife, he continued on.

~Ventureing on to the Blazing Plains. ~

Shade sighed once his bait started to trot off once more, he also dropped to the ground with a shudder. Acrobatically landing, reducing the effects to his body greatly, his invisibility shivered for a moment then settled back into full effect. Holding his exodus tightly with both hands, he began to sprint after the girl, tossing up small gouts of dirt behind him.

Jacknife quietly followed Mozz out of the fields and towards the blazing plains. He really hoped that the blazing part didn't mean that they were abnormally hot. With all this gear he could get pretty warm walking around out there. Well, his bodysuit should help a lot. He kept his hand on his gun as he went, keeping it from bouncing against anything and making noise.