Another gate closed, using the “sneak, sneak… leg it!” approach.

Did a quest where I had to kill some spies. Got told they turned up at a certain spot, so I lay in wait, saw one of them, let fly with an explosive arrow, one dead spy. She was the only one there and I got a nice message saying she was dead and I should go to talk someone about the rest of the spies. Riding my horse back to town I got a message saying another spy had died. Must have caught by a guard or a lion or something. Radiant AI doing me a favour, I guess. Odd. Also turned out he was the last spy, despite only being the second one, so the quest turned out to be a bit easy. Not that I’m complaining. There are enough hard fights in the game, I don’t mind things going my way now and again.