The Bandits

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The Tale of the Bandits
One lifetime ago bandits came to Mount Eskel. They thought to sack a small village easily enough. They thought they could steal, burn, and be gone before the sun saw their deeds. But they were tiny ignorant men. They did not know Mount Eskel's secrets. The mountain knows the feel of an outsiders boot, and the mountain will not support its weight. The bandits came nearer and nearer, and the mountain groaned in the night. It groaned and the villagers heard and awoke. The villagers awoke and they were waiting. With mallets and chisels and levers they waited. That night, the quarriers stood taller than tree, taller than mountains, and they struck like lightning. When the first bandits fell, the rest ran. They ran like hare from a hawk. Mount Eskel feel the boots of oustsiders. Mount Eskel won't bear their weight.

Their Attack On the Academy
Dan is the leader of the bandits and his seconds in command are Dogface and Onor. He has 15 bandits in his pack. They wore sheepskin, goatskin, leather boots, fur caps, some even had gold hoops in their ears. They came for the future princess, not knowing that the prince had not chosen his bride.

The Bandits jumped a traveling man of business a few weeks before. The man told them of the princes visit and the bandits watched the academy for weeks, not striking because of the many palace guards. When the prince left without a bride the bandits planned to take the princess for ransom.

Miri was outside where she had been arguing with Peder, when she had heard Esa telling her to run using quarry speech. She tried to run after Peder, but one of the bandits caught her before she caught up to him. Struggling and kicking he brought her inside where the rest of the girls were. Knut was leaning against the wall with a broken arm and Olana was cowering in a corner. The bandits threatened them to tell them who the prince had chosen, but they kept telling them he hadn't chosen. Dan lost his temper, grabbed Gerti and hung her y her wrist from one of the ceiling beams. Miri rose, protesting that Gerti didn't do anything. Dan walked over and hit Miri so hard that she fell to the floor, her head against the wall. Frid stood up and told the bandits the prince had chosen her. She thought that the bandits would take her and let the rest of them go. Miri couldn't let Frid sacrifice herself and stood up claiming Frid was lying and the prince had chosen her. When Dan asked who was lying the girls simultaneously pointed at each other and said "She is". Then Britta stood up and said they were both lying and that the prince had chosen her. Soon all the girls were standing, shout how she was the princess, even Gerti who was let down. The bandits decided that they would leave tomorrow and since they didn't know which girl was the princess they would take them all.

However that night the snow came

Because the prince had not chosen his bride yet the bandits held all the academy girls captive. For maybe 2 months they stayed in the academy because of the snow, for it was too difficult to travel. The bandits ate the half the food supply and let the rest spoil, while feed the girls only watery porridge. The bandits locked Olana and Knut in one of the unused rooms so they couldn’t help the girls. Miri used quarry speech to tell Peder that bandits were at the academy are holding them captive. The girls escaped by climbing through the window in their dorm and running to the villagers waiting outside the building. All the girls reached the villagers except Miri, Esa, Gerti, Katar, Frid and Britta and 5 others who were caught by the bandits before they reached their families.