((oocly note...just a little picture story))...
The members of The Bloody Dawn had made camp after successfully completing a contract. It had been a hard fight, and some of them were injured and tending to their wounds. Taala had busied herself stitching herself and Foxwin up, when talk of a grand structure passed around camp.
Taala's curiosity as ever got the better of her, and she rode out until she saw the magnificent structure known as the Colossus, towering over High Kings Crossing in the realm of Evendim.
Taala did not ride back to Bree with the company in the morning, instead she steered her horse towards the structure. Beneath it she found a small group of men clad mainly in green weather-worn clothing. She watched them train with interest. They were not particular friendly, nor unfriendly at first, tolerant, but not over welcoming. That has never stopped Taala, she would talk to a statue if she thought it had a tale to share. She watched these Rangers of the North train, and before long she broke bread with them and somewhat impressed them with her bow skills.
She was not the only one of The Dawn with an urge to explore, she learned that Foxwin had already spent time amongst the Rangers and presented himself well to them. Foxwin was a capable swordsman and a likeable fellow. Taala cared not to admit she had a fondness for him above all others. Taala asked one of the Rangers if they would permit her and Foxwin to climb the Colossus. He grinned as he went about his work, and said that there could be a bargain to be struck.
The Rangers tasked the pair with gathering wood, rope and oil washed up on the shore. Taala encountered strange creatures she had never set eyes on before known as bog-lurkers and crawlers. It may seem an easy task that they had been set, had it not been for the Tomb-Raiders they would encounter. None-the-less, they returned to the Rangers with all that had been asked of them.
True to their word, the Rangers allowed Foxwin and Taala to climb to the top of the Colossus. They sat upon the edge and gaped at the lands below them in awe. The view was breathtaking.
The pair of them sat close together and watched the sun set. Eventually they lay down together beneath the stars and made the Colossus their bed that night...
Foxwin was sleeping soundly when she stirred the next day. Quietly she untwined herself from his arms and descended the mighty structure and bade farewell to the Rangers. She mounted Salwed and turned him back towards Breeland, stopping one last time to gaze upon the Colossus smiling in the knowledge that Foxwin lay atop it sleeping peacefully...
