Bastia, Eagle Flock headquarters.
In the end, the Eagle Tribe Leader, fearing the Earl's orders, did nothing to Laura. Of course, it was also possible they had simply forgotten about her.
Regardless, Laura was released from the cell after that night. Or perhaps, more accurately, no one had cared about her in the first place.
Laura had no family. Since everyone in the Eagle Flock was a warrior, her parents were always away on missions. She had only faint memories of them from her early childhood.
Her parents might have died in a war, perhaps even at the hands of the Mountain Barbarian Tribe, their bodies never recovered.
But who cared? In the Eagle Flock, death was common. The wars of earlier years had been incessant and fierce. Although the conflict with the Barbarian Tribes had subsided, minor skirmishes still frequently erupted at the borders.
In these times, living past thirty was already quite an achievement.
