"Not enough coin to risk my life" The bandit says as he surrenders, his hands still up in the air, the light is barely enough from the torch of his unconscious comrade. Shion notices he's no longer a threat without his sword, which makes her lower her own, but still keeps her guard up as he can make something bold to try something.
"Now, start talking, who are you? Why are you attacking travelers? Are you the ones behind the disappearances?" Shion starts questioning the bandit in a single breath.
"Hey, relax, one question at a time. You are still an amateur, aren't you?" The bandit almost chuckles at her despite his situation "We answer to someone that just calls himself 'The Spider', bald man, ugly tattoo on his head, done with magic, probably not around. He told us we could keep three coins for every ten we robbed, it was a good deal, but that greedy dumb-ass you got there lying" says pointing to the unconscious bandit "wanted to risk the deal by taking more without telling anyone how much we actually robbed. Not smart, the Spider has too many men under his command to be sure none of the four of us would snitch"
"That's good and all but... " Wait, four of them? Shion starts thinking for herself, one dead, one down, one in front of her, where is the last one? "The fourth one, where is-" Shion cannot complete her sentence, before a hit on her right arm send her flying towards the tree line, crashing on the trunk of a tree. The bandit starts laughing as the fourth bandit makes himself known.
"Right here miss" The fourth bandit replies, with a club resting on his shoulder.
"You really thought I was going to talk just like that?" The bandit laughs at her, taking a small knife out of a back pocket on his belt "No little mercenary, this operation is too good to let it be ruined like that" They both start walking towards Shion, whom barely can keep her eyes open, she can feel herself almost fainting, dizzy for being hit that hard with no warning.
"Over here! I can hear something!" Different voices echo on the distance, which gets the attention from the bandits.
"Tch, this one was lucky" The smaller bandit gestures angrily, before running away with his partner.
"Here's someone! Doesn't seem wounded nor bleeding" A guard comes closer to Shion, when the guard sees her closely "Ah! It's an orc!"
"N-Not a threat..." Shion tries to reply back "I-I'm with the mercenaries association" She pulls out a small necklace with the craving of a wolf, made out of silver, which the guard recognizes, but the doubt still lingers in his eyes.
"Where are the bandits? A man came to us telling us of bandits" The guard questions her as if she was a prisoner, almost to get an answer quickly to leave her there and move on.
"They were here, probably back in their camp" Shion starts gaining back her composure, still shaky, but at least can start to get back up on her feet "South-west, about a hundred meters, there was a campfire" She points in the general direction where they were.
"Understood, we will track them down" The guard signals the others, about seven guards total, and they all leave the place where Shion is. She stays there for a couple minutes, not out of will, but her body is not responding as quickly as she would like. Then she starts walking, still a bit shaky, but when she's able to recover her sword, starts sprinting towards the camp
"Those sons of bitches, they gonna pay dearly for that"