“Can you sense that? Brych, or anyone else? Due east-northeast about six miles, there’s an undead scout,” said Zilly. She was looking at Brin as she spoke, only avoiding calling out his [Illusionist] Class because she couldn’t be sure no spies were watching them.Brin checked the direction. He already had several Invisible Eyes in that area, but they hadn’t alerted him to anything. He shook his head.“Follow the dry gulch until the end. Then there are a few trees, one of them fifteen feet high. Just past that, there are three stones. Look at the short end of the triangle they make,” said Zilly.Brych shook his head. “My senses don’t go that far. I’m impressed that yours do.”“It comes with [Scout],” Zilly said with a pleased shrug.“You know what I’ve always wanted to ask you sensor-types,” said Hedrek. “Can you shut it off? I mean, how do you sleep at night?”Brych and Zilly shared a knowing smirk, as if they both knew what they were going to say. Brych gave a half bow to Zilly, to say that she should explain.“To answer your second question: I sleep like a baby. Every night, and half the day when I can get the chance. To answer your first, no, I can’t shut it off, and I wouldn’t want to. Even with my eyes closed, I know everything that’s going on around me for miles. I can hear every conversation, I can feel the heat of the rats in their burrows, the thermals in the air above, and I definitely know if some kind of horrible monster is sneaking up behind me.”Marksi, who’d gone into camouflage as soon as Zilly had come near, suddenly scrambled back from where he’d been creeping up behind her, and hid again.Zilly smiled at Brin to show she knew, but didn’t say anything. “I go to sleep each night with the comfortable knowledge that if anything dangerous approaches, I’ll hear it coming and wake up long before it can hurt me. The question is, how do you all sleep at night?”Brych (...)