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The River Moss
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The waters of the great River Moss soak you through as you move out into its lazy flow.  The waters are far from clean and clear here, though, the river has picked up much dirt and dust on its way to the sea.  This has turned the water's color to a pale and dirty brown.  Everyso often the movement of a fish can be detected in the water or on the surface, but they seem to be keeping away from the beasts in the water for the most part.  The trees that over hang the river weave a tight mesh and block out much of the sun light from either side, even in the winter months.  This lends a sort of calm and relaxed aura to this part of the river as it nears the Old Stone Bridge that allows beasts to cross the river without swimming in it.
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Exits: [D]own [R]iver Under Bridge, [U]p [R]iver, [N]orth to Shore, [S]outh to Shore

Dandelion sticks out his tongue, grimacing. "Ehw. I bet it does." he says, sniffling.

Maxine whimpers and covers her muzzle remembering Roggy giving her hotroot soup. She shifts her eyes watching everyone as she lays curled near the fire keeping warm.

Flaxpaw nods, and turns her attention to Maxine, smiling. "no, little one, I didn't really like it either, too spicy, wot." she turns back to Dandelion. but, I bet it would cure you."

Dandelion nods, pulling the blanket tighter about him and drifting off into some fevered self-pity, closing his eyes and trying to nap.

Flaxpaw watches Dande drift off, and goes back to polishing her blades, watching Maxine in case she shows any sign of wanting to be interacted with, and wondering when the officers are going to make her get back on the cursed rafts....

Maxine yips softly and crawls over closer to Flaxpaw, and lays next to her curling up some. She can't talk very well yet but she manages on her own. Softly she yips again as she looks up at Flaxpaw as if to say hi.

Flaxpaw smiles down, setting the blades out of reach of the dibbun. "hello, there. wot d'you think of this lovely spot to camp. think they've chosen well, don't you?" she chats to the kit, not expecting an answer, just to be soothing.

Maxine yips softly and nods her head this is the first time in a wile she has been out camping like this she still is unsure what is going on Flicktail told her but she doesn't understand fully yet.

Flaxpaw nods. "yes, it'll be a smooth journey. All these otter here, and the officers too." she picks some long blades of grass and begins to braid them as she talks. "then we'll be to redwall. d'you know wot redwall is, little one?"

Maxine yips a little loudly not intending two. She was hiding out at Redwall wile she healed from falling down some steps and giving herself a concussion and nearly getting taken by a frog.

Dandelion is rudely awakened from his daydreaming by another fit of sneezing, which at the end of which he mutters a largely suffocated curse, and then takes a couple of calming breats. "Why'd I have t' go in the water...?" he whines.

Ben opens one eye at the sound of redwall and mews "Me bring her from redywall, She get banged  in head and toady try and nap hers." is what he says lowering his head and going back to sleep.

Flaxpaw nods at this information, looking a tad puzzled. "Dande, language in front of the dibbuns." she scolds, then grins. "hotroot soup, I'm tellin you. just go ask majah, sure he'll feed you some." she looks back down at Maxine. so, you've been to redwall, then, have you? hear the food's good there."

Maxine yips softly and nods her head at Flaxpaw agreeing.

"Yea, yea..." Dandelion mutters sourly, and then sneezes again. At least this time he doesn't curse afterwards. "Hope 'ere's some soup left..." he mutters as soon as he can speak again.

Flaxpaw smiles. "you watch that the dibbuns don't get too close to that fire, and I'll go see. how's that? maybe bring some tasty thing back for the rest of us too.

Ben is laying near the fire napping being a lazy kitten cat.

Shrew voices can travel a relatively long distance when singing in unison. Steadily upstream come rowing the Guosim, belting out another one of their cheesy, albeit infectious, rowing ballads, gruff voices singing /almost/ in synchronization, and not quite in the same key.

Alrendo the albino bard is perched on the railing of the dibbun raft fiddling with his harp and watching the camp, his ears pin back as he hears the shrew voices and he chuckles softly "Ahhhh guests for dinner" he murmurs "I wonder if we have enough fish"

Flaxpaw stands and wanders off to find food,pausing at the sound of the shrews, then catching sight of Al, and heading his way, throwing a quick salute.

Maxine yips softly looking at Dandelion crawling a little closer her tail wondering dangerously close to the fire but not going in as she curls up near him.

Pulling his blanket tighter about him, Dandelion gets up and shuffles over to the otter bard. "'ello." he mumbles, and then sneezes again.

Quinten room-pages, "I am not a stinkyhare i'm a clean and deadly otter at the moment so ner Quint is about in camp i am sure".

Ben is sprawled out near the same fire as Dandelion was at and the one Maxine is near as well.

The shrews' song gets louder, and finally falls apart in raucous cheering, presumably the end of the song. Rounding a bend in the river, the logboat carrying all the shrews comes rowing upstream, with Belliger at the helm.

Flaxpaw room-pages, "fine, you're a stinky otter. smell like the river tastes, all fishy. yuck.".

Alrendo looks up at Dande and is about to greet him when the hare sneezes, he holds up a paw "Ey up matey how'd you get a cold?" he sets the harp down and reaches for the bucks paw "Let me have a look at ye" he glances at Flaxpaw as she salutes but otherwise ignores her for now.

If Dande is here, then the dibbuns are not being watched near the fire. Flax shoots an irritable look at him. was going to ask the odd otter not to tell major Jarril about the incident yesterday, assuming th lt. hasn't already......she turns on her heel and goes back over to the fire, sitting near Maxine. "scoot a bit away from the fire there, little one."

Dandelion wipes his nose. "I went swimming yesterday..." he mutters. "Was cold in the water, I guess..."

Alrendo nods his head "Ack well that was a bit silly, still we'll soon boil that out of you" he raises a paw "Roan bring me the wooden flask will ye, an a beaker." he then grins at the recruit and winks "This'll sort you out," he stands up and waves a paw at the Gousim "HOOOOO HEAVE TOO GOUSIM!" He bellows over the water "WE got vitals aplenty to share"

Soon enough, the shrews are near enough to see the encampment, all the shrews halting their paddling for a moment to return the greeting to Alrendo with high waves and a rumble of "Ahoy"s. Belliger orders them to keep rowing, and they do, finally working towards running up on to the bank.

Ben is sound asleep noting waking him easliy/

Maxine yips softly watching the other beasts quietly her eyes dropping down some as well.

Dandelion sneezes again, barely having time to turn his head away so as not to sneeze directly at the otter. "So how come you don't catch colds...?" he asks, sullenly.

Flaxpaw watches the two dibbuns going to sleep, then props chinnon her paw, looking into the fire, kinda sad now that she thinks no one's looking. her ears are back a bit, though, listening to the shrews arriving.

alrendo takes the flask off on his fellow otter and pours out a measure of dark green liquid into a beaker "Here drink this matey, an we don't get colds cause we got all this on" he tugs at his white fur "Its oily and waterproof so we stay warm" he smirks at the Log-a-log and waves a paw "Its good to see you Log-a-Log Belliger, come on ashore and join us, maybe you can help us herd these land loving hares to redwall safely."

Belliger paddles furiously, until the logboat is up on the shore, and he retrieves a rope from inside the boat, tying it off to a sturdy-looking rock on the shore, eyes turning towards Alrendo. "Good ta see ye, too. Wot, we got a li'l party goin' 'ere without us?"

Ben shifts opening his eyes a little looking around the area still purring loudly.

Maxine is nearly asleep its about that time she falls asleep for her afternoon nap anyways as she curls up next to Ben having to listen to Ben's loud purring it lulling her to sleep if you would believe it.