The Strange Duo

Gularzob was watching the two people and the horse when suddenly they stopped on the path. Seeing one of the figures throw a shape over the horse, he cursed his less than stellar vision, a result of staring at fiery coals and red-hot metal for several hours a day. However, he was able to make out that the smaller figure was messing with a cloth down beside them, hiking it up a ways before letting it fall back down. Assuming the material to be a dress and then following up with an assumption that it was a male and female, he sighed softly before leaning back against the tree.

It was extremely strange for a woman to raise her dress that high in public, even in a kingdom as liberal as Dalen was. Crossing his arms back over his barrel chest, he decided to wait and see what the duo would do, not wanting to get involved in anything that wouldn't be profitable or that could possibly inconvenience him. In fact, he was cutting his profits by being out here, having closed his store in order to escape the noise and the panic rising in side him. What sense would it make to venture two hundred yards to meet this duo halfway and then try to explain away his intentions.

Shaking his head, he breatged out deeply through flared nostrils before closing his eyes again, focusing on the sounds and smells coming from the two as he determined his next course of action.