Chapter 79: Scrolls
"This sucks," Sosora said, plopping down next to Malak at his desk.
"Mhm," He hummed in agreement.
They had spent almost an entire day looking for traces of Tair, and the rest of the day and the night going around trying to find anything else. They talked to the few people who lived in the area. The few of the few who had something to say didn’t have anything worth saying.
In the first place, Tair had been brought down close to the center of the forest. Only those who wanted peace without worrying too much about the monster kings lived there. There weren’t many in Tiabe who didn’t fear the monster kings, so it was mostly outcasts or antisocial people.
They hadn’t gotten anywhere.
"This has the Lowat tribe’s stench all over it," Sosora grumbled.
"A little, yeah. But if we accuse them with nothing..."
"I know. It will only backfire. And we if find something to use against them..."
"It won’t stop with just an accusation. The cleanest solution would be to find and save Tair without mentioning the details to anyone else. If the Lowat tribe complains about us beating up the ones who kidnapped Tair, they’ll be admitting to the kidnapping."
"Great. We just need to find where Tair is being kept, then." Sosora huffed frustratedly.
Malak looked at her as she scanned the map of the forest they had drawn over the day, detailing where they had looked. Tiabe was large. But there were only so many places where they could have taken Tair. And there were only so many routes they could have used without anyone seeing them.