Princess Alexis stopped as the last of her expanded team entered the woods.
She had planned to escape and go hunting with just her Royal Guard, but she had managed to attract a few Royal Guards from each of the delegations, as well as a few officers from the armies, and a mute hunter, who had his tongue cut out at some point in the past and only communicated with the hand signal gestures.
[Bugbears, one kilometre ahead, see the traces?] He signalled.
Alexis smiled and gestured for everyone else to be silent.
Bugbears were somewhat intelligent, surely as intelligent as Hobgoblins, and they operated in packs. But they were also capable of making their own weapons. Unfortunately, they were also incredibly aggressive, and liked to eat humans.
Unlike the Trolls, they weren't anything that could be negotiated with.
