Shortly after the city gates were closed, a small camp formed not far to the South. There were several who sat around its fire but they showed no aggression. Fear, however, they were quick to stir.
At first, the nomads simply hunted and gathered, disturbing the forests just beyond the city as little as they could. But soon rumors began to fly among the farmers outside the city, and then through guards at the gates, fast leaking into the city. The strange people spoke odd words, spent their nights dancing and singing to strange songs, acting as though possessed. It was said, even, that dark magic traveled in the very smoke of their campfires.
And, it was said, that Kylara Lansing was among them.