"Should we wake Noohar?" asks Elbolin.

"Yeah, we had better bring them with us," answers Barry. He shakes Noohar and Selvek, gently waking them up. "You're in grave danger," he says. "There are people trying to attack us. You'd better come with us."

"Who's trying to attack us?" says Noohar sleepily.

"I don't have time to explain," says Barry. Noohar appears to accept this, at least for now, and he and Selvek get up and dress quickly. They all sneak through the darkness back to the other tent. Elbolin notices a slight stirring in the woods - nothing he can directly locate, just that sort of feeling that you get when somebody is around. There is just a sliver of moon tonight, and he can't pick out anything recognizable in the trees.

Hooflepoof, meanwhile, sneaks invisibly back down the road to where Jamna Gleamsilver, the gnome, is waiting in hiding. He takes off his hood.

"How did it go?" she asks.

"Well I warned them," says Hooflepoof. "Nobody attacked yet."

"Did you notice any cultists?"

"No."

Back at the tents, Black Barry readies his sword, and sneaks out and climbs up a nearby tree. He doesn't see anything, so he waits up there, and watches.

Elbolin sneaks quietly out of the tent, just outside the door, and peers out into the darkness. It takes his eyes a few minutes to adjust, but with his darkvision he can see a few shadowy shapes in the bushes just at the edge of the clearing. Somebody is hiding there. He can't tell how many, but he is pretty sure there are at least several. He sneaks back into the tent and tells them what he saw.

"Did they look like raiders?" whispers Noohar. "I'm concerned about my cart."

Before they have a chance to answer, the still night is broken by a voice, a little too loud, outside the door of the tent. "Hey, are you guys in there?" says the voice. They recognize it as Leosin Erlanthar.

"Yes," says Elbolin, rather quietly.

"Can I come in?"

"Sure."

They open the flap of the tent, and Leosin steps in. "Hey, good to see you guys!" says Leosin, and he seems to be expecting a welcome-back hug, but everyone is too nervous.

"Quiet, quiet," whispers Elbolin. "There are cultists outside."

"Yes, I know," whispers Leosin, and then speaks loudly again. "Hey you guys have room for one more in here? I'm pretty tired. You have any light in here?"

Elbolin is confused. "This isn't making sense," he whispers. "What's going on?"

Leosin whispers again. "They don't want to be revealed. They won't attack in the light."

"Let's get to a safer place first," says Elbolin. "Let's go hide in the bushes and decide what to do."

Together they all (except for Barry, who remains hiding in the tree, and Hooflepoof, who is hiding with Jamna) sneak out of the tent, past the cart, and across the road to where there are some heavy bushes to hide in. However, when they get there, they find that Leosin has disappeared into the darkness.