Hellbrandt wrote:
Mthunzi takes the opportunity to scout the settlement while the light is still low, climbing the pallisade as suggested. His objective is to get a good overview of Malim's forces and establish whether himself and his companions could quietly take the gate with the two guards on it (are the guards on the inside or outside of the gate?) Or are there any weak spots in the pallisade, or unwatched spots that his less nimble companions could climb over?
Mthunzi slips into the town over the pallisade he notes the two guards standing inside the gate are not particularly alert and seem to spend a lot of their time holding their heads and looking back towards the longhouse.
He moves from building to building, only startling the occasional guinea fowl. As he approaches the small hut that Kgosigadi Ngela currently occupies he is forced to stop for a few minutes as a patrol passes by. Tallying them in his head he notes two men on the jungle gate, four on the trade gate and two pairs on patrol......with what he saw the previous night there cannot not be more than half a dozen within the longhouse itself now....
He moves to the entrance of the hut and slips quickly inside where he is immediately greeted by the ancient old woman holding a machete out in his direction.
" Oh! Your one of Kuublu's men. I thought perhaps one of Malims had gotten very foolish indeed."" You did it. The sun is up and the child still breathes....well done to you! And our dear Olmar?", she said quietly looking back at the slumbering form of Ngela.
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