This whole page is screaming "edit me" and the farmer-soldiers makes me giggle like the doctor-lawyers in the commercials on TV. it sounds too silly
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“Hello fellow farming folk!” Magnar wanted to try and play a kinship card and get them out of Caax as quickly as possible without a fight. He trotted closer to them to hopefully keep them from asking too many questions. “What’s going on?” “I’m afraid no one is permitted to leave Caax. Palen’s orders.” One of the farmers tried to assert authority. “I hadn’t heard. What’s going on?” Magnar's eye twitched a little at the mention of Palen, but he also wanted to laugh at the man that was thinking a little too highly of himself. “Someone tried to set fire to a large part of Teo. Probably some stray Biyeho still around. So, unless you have a valid pass, you can’t leave the country. No offense.” A second farmer explained. “Is that so. Thanks for letting me know.” Magnar went back to the waiting group. “Seems like you need a pass to leave Caax. Palen’s decreed some garbage about Biyeho around and the fire in Teo. These guys don’t look like much of a fighting pair, but I would rather not have to hurt them.” Blu took a quick glance at the farmers who were watching them. “They’re probably like the bandits we came across before, but this time they took a job from someone instead of just attacking people on their own.” “That’s optimistic, Blu, but that doesn’t quite solve our problems. Did they say how to get a pass?” Dias pointed out the next obvious question. Magnar had a thought and he raised his finger to pause their conversation and went back to the farmer-soldiers. “Ok, so we don’t have a pass. We’ve been traveling around the countryside for a while now, so we didn’t know anything about it. Any idea how or where we can get one?” The farmer-soldiers were silent for a minute before one admitted they didn’t know. “Sorry. We were just told not to let anyone out without a pass and to take care of any Biyeho we meet.”