Unfriendly Visitors (Part 2)

Among the guards, an announcement was made, and it really surprised them all. 

[Potential enemies will arrive soon! Try not to show your prowess too much. We prefer being underestimated.] 

This startled the guards a lot, but they quickly adjusted and followed as ordered. 

Althea didn't really bother doing the same with the citizens as it might give a few people the idea of selling the information to the enemy instead. There were thousands of them now, they obviously had a couple of bad apples already. 

Speaking of bad apples, a certain leech family was waiting around the gates when they heard people from Limestone Valley were entering the territory. They had been stalking the guard stations a lot and they happened to have overheard it.

When the Limestone Valley party soon arrived—with the 'guests' in tow—the aforementioned family ran to greet them. 

"It's them!" they yelled, and went to Luis and the others.