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Oriah and the marines wait for you outside the stables as you approach the paddock alone. The horses become skittish as you get closer, yet you are able to subdue them by using your Animal Mastery. Silently you pull open the paddock gate and command the nearest five horses to leave the enclosure. Obediently they obey your commands, following meekly as you lead them away in single file to your waiting companions.

You mount your borrowed steeds and Ernan leads the way along a broad avenue that ends at the town’s southern gatehouse. Two sleepy-eyed guards watch with indifference as you pass through the open gate and depart from Cape Kabar along its dusty coast road.

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