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A most wretched looking General Lyte, of the Royal Troff Legion, who is generally almost always fastidiously neat and fetching in appearance, is seen being helped into town by Aramuil, Dietrick, Belia and others sometime after the crazy rumor spreads.
She seems disoriented and keeps bumping into things on the way to the healers, and the people with her seem anxious and worried, even more than is normally the case around this action packed little barbarian village.
More rumors spread that she has been held captive by bugbears and tortured or drugged and tortured, or magically geas-ed and tortured, or was ripped limb from limb after being tortured, and that after being tortured, she was released after having been ransomed for gems, coin or mithril, or all of the above.
Only thing that is consistant in the various tales is torture!
Tongues wag on.