"Stop!"
The guard at the gate stopped the disheveled group of retreating soldiers in front of him: "Are you coming from Shuimi Town?"
"No, we are the garrison from Black Saw Village."
Upon hearing the familiar mountain Norn dialect, the guard relaxed and spoke in a more cordial tone: "Black Saw Village? Under which knight do you serve?"
"We are Armed Farmers under Lord Radomir. The Thousand River Valley savages burned our camp!"
Hearing these deserters' words, the guard mumbled to himself: "These Thousand River Valley people march quickly; arriving at Black Saw Village before sunset."
"What's in this cart?"
Saying this, a Norn soldier lifted the oilcloth covering the cart, and immediately showed a look of disgust.
Faces full of frostbite, wounds caked with blood scabs, and torn Bear Castle Territory heraldic surcoats.
"The cart is full of wounded and the corpses of comrades... When we got on, they were all wounded..."
