Snippet #1327861

The sun rose in the east, over the mountains cloaked in shadow and mist. The light shown down, through the drifting smoke from the burned out ruins of Cillinas and bathed the sad scene. Only a handful of buildings still stood, housing piles of loot and sleeping clansmen. With the brutish men were a number of the village women, those young to be attractive. Outside in the pens, along with the cattle and sheep, where a number of the villagers, mostly children, a handful of men, whom had either been club or begged for mercy.

Bodies littered the ground outside, left out for the scavengers, whom merely waited for the raiders to depart. Most were men, laying where they fell during the night but scattered among them were the elders of the village. A number of the clansmen wandered about or found comfortable spots in trees or the rooftops of the remaining buildings, having drawn the unlucky lot to stand guard over their celebrating companions.

“Why we got ta do this” whined Elkin, a scrawny bowman, to his brother, as they walked the edge of the wood, “No one got away, ta warn the other villages and any comin here wont be warriors. We should have gotten some ah da beer and ah few women for da night.”

“Shuddup” growled Lug, the older and larger of the brothers, carrying a wood axe he had claimed from the village and a large stone hammer, “We’re not watchin for more villagers, we’re watchin for them fellows come ta join us.”

“And why we doin that” asked the younger brother.

“So they don’t take our loot and women.”

“Only you got loot and neither ah us got women.”

“Shaddup, da boss makes sure all ah us gets loot and women. Just wait until he wakes up and has a few drinks.”

So the banter went back and forth, as the bothers walked around the former village. It was always like this. Elkin always complained, now matter how much loot he got from a raid or when they did robbery. Lug would finally get tired of it and slap him around a little. It had been like this since they were young. Of course they were watching the woods around the village.