Just Keep Walking

Taking out the lookout ran the risk of the alarm being raised if he screwed up, and even if he succeeded, that still didn't mean that the goblins wouldn't notice one of their own missing. The most important thing right now was to maintain his stealth and keep moving.

Head low, Edmond moved on, following the goblin trail from the shadows, casting careful glances at the canopy of the trees and the hills, looking for any glint of metal or the sight of light green skin.

Eventually the tracks he was following split into two paths.

One path hugged the creak as it curved around a hill. There would be no shade to aid him on that path, which would no doubt make his efforts to move unseen more difficult if there were any goblins watching that route.

The other curved around the other way, passing between two hills, steep walls on either side. The pass was dark from shadow, and seemed like the perfect choke point for the goblins to set up some sort of defense or ambush.