Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
"Met mine. There was a war and he did war stuff and now his magic dog probably hates me."
"And Anaander's you has probably been dead for millennia. The way things are going we can expect more pharaoh type people though."
"If we're just completing squares now we need Anaander's you-lot and Cam's and Mirelótë's me."
"You pay enough attention you'd be sure to know about one of us if they were in your empire?"
"Maybe not if she was a kid? But as soon as she tried to do something interesting."
"If doing cool things is outlawed then only outlaws will do cool things," Cam mutters to himself.
"New face. I don't suppose the Maitimos know who it is off of a few seconds of puzzled staring."