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The first thing Kybele will notice when she wakes up is almost certainly the enormous pain in her chest. It's not that there's a shortage of things to notice, in the middle of a busy market square mid festival, but that's the kind of thing that really tends to grab the attention. Wherever she fell asleep, she certainly isn't there now.
Knight Commander Kybele
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helping-hand
"We've got a bunch of priests and wizards here, don't we? Couldn't we just make a new ford, or even a bridge where the river is thinner? Then they wouldn't be able to stop us from going across, and nobody has to be at risk."
Wrath-of-the-Righteous
"I don't like the loss of tempo it would cause to put a few days to that, especially not if someone's in the process of reinforcing them, but it's definitely a good thought."
gazette
"How wide a river are we talking here? I might be able to make a bridge, but I'm not enough of an engineer to do a big one, especially since the paper isn't going to hold up in the water and it has to all be above."
Wrath-of-the-Righteous
"A little over a thousand feet, at Villareth's ford, but it was chosen in the first place because the river gets wider and shallower there. I expect we could find somewhere half the distance without going too far out of the way, but I'm not sure about a third."
gazette
"Iffy. I can try it on dry land by way of a test but it'd be pretty visually obvious, a five hundred foot paper bridge, and give the game away to any spying demons."