Her companions, in a spot of trouble themselves

Takoff's eyes widened at Morgala and Thurkla, who were no longer sitting quietly where she had left them. Well, she supposed they were, but it wasn't for the reason she would have preferred. They certainly weren't trying to be quiet, but the gags over their mouths were making that difficult. Similarly, their bound hands and feet made it so that they didn't have much of a choice but to keep sitting down where they were. Truly quite the predicament for our two naked heroines.

As soon as the couple saw their dwarven protector, they both started to yell from behind their gags, letting out pathetic muffled cries, their exhaustion evident. Takoff, shaking off her own exhaustion, crawled over to her passengers and started ripping at their bonds, throwing aside her dextrous nature for a second. Without her tools or the energy to use her training as a rogue, all the dwarf could do was futility pull at their bonds, causing the bound ladies to cry out in pain. "Sorry, she took all my tools. This is going to take a while." As she said that, something caught Takoff's eye, and she turned to see a pile of rocks. An idea sparked inside her noggin, and she ran over to the rocks and started sifting through them, tossing small stones left and right (some of them pelting her unfortunate passengers) before picking up a sizeable rock with a jagged edge and running back to Morgala.

After some heavy sawing against the ropes, which took longer than expected due to both Takoff's poor stamina and the surprisingly high quality of the ropes, the despoiled bounty hunter was finally able to cut the ties on Morgala's hands. as she rubbed the feeling back into her wrists, Takoof crawled over to Thurkla and started working on her bindings. "Don't worry, girls. I've been in tough spots like this before, so I'll get you guys freed in a-" Looking over to the elf, the overconfident naked bounty hunter saw that she had already untied her ankles and was standing over her.

"May I?"

Wordlessly, Takoff scooched over and let Morgala kneel down and start untying her lover's ropes. "You, uh... you're pretty good at that."

"When you spend a lot of time rearing children, undoing knots becomes pretty easy. Even ones as good as these ones."

Blushing at the unintended compliment to her rival, Takoff straightened her hat, her only piece of clothing at the moment, and got to her feet. She walked over to the bushes where she had concealed her wagon. "We should get going. We've spent too much time here already, but if we travel by night, the cart should be able to-"

Morgala's eyes went wide and a nervous smile crept onto her face. "Yeah, well... about that."

Morgala couldn't finish her thought as Takoff pushed away the bushes and revealed her wagon, right where she'd left it. Or, perhaps it would be more accurate to say she found what was left of her wagon because there wasn't much of that. The wheels had been removed, as had the tarp and wiring that held it up. The hitching for the horses was gone, which wasn't as much of a problem as the horses, which were also long gone. Whether they had simply been set free or taken with the rest of Takoff's things was unknown. What was known was that Takoff no longer had a wagon, but instead a pair of wooden posts and some nails.

"The goliath who got the jump on us took the wagon apart immediately. She said something about 'teaching her little bottom friend a lesson'?" Thurkla, who had joined Morgala in rubbing the feeling back into her hands, walked up to Takoff and put her hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's alright. I've been there, and look at me now!" Takoff glowered up at the naked and penniless orc girl, still holding onto her dirty rag as her sole possession, smiling down at her.

Morgala sighed, picking up her own sole possession and joining her naked companions. "Are you going to be okay?"

Takoff, her shoulders shivering with a mixture of rage and skittishness, turned around, a frightful smile on her face, and said. "Oh, me? I'm fine. Never better. I've been in worse spots before, believe me."

"Really? Worse than this?" Thurkla asked as Morgala elbowed her shoulder a little too late.

"You two don't know what kinds of horrors are out there for bounty hunters. I've seen much greater dangers than being stranded naked in the woods this far from civilization. Besides," she tipped her hat in a ridiculous display of prowess, undercut slightly by the shaking of her bosom. "I'm not completely naked, now am I?"

The orc and the elf looked at one another, unsure what to say. They had both begun to notice a pattern with their luck and weren't sure it would be kind to share that with their newly nude friend.

Taking their silence as a cue to continue, Takoff turned back around, mooning the odd couple, and started to catalog her remaining things. "It's too late to set out now if we're going by foot, which it looks like we are. We'll settle down for the night and start our trek first thing in the morning." The dwarf started walking towards the clearing on the edge of the trees, gathering sticks along the way and trying (unsuccessfully) to stifle her cries of pain from walking on her bare feet. Morgala and Thurkla, who were pretty experienced with being stranded without anything to their names by this point, started to follow their self-assigned leader, hoping that a good, or even a half-decent, night's sleep would make things a little easier to swallow in the morning.