The Shining Company
“Mercifully the river, running quiet after the white water further upstream, looped close under the town walls, making it easy to water them, at least for the present. There were wells and springs in both the town and the fort, but most of them had fallen in.
That first day is a jumble of crowded and shifting memories in my mind. We found a barrack-row with part of its roof still on, to make a shelter for our wounded, and started up cooking fires - there was plenty of dead wood about the place. We slaughtered some of the cattle. The rest would be kept for later need, but men fresh from battle need hot food with blood in it. Conn and his mates, coming in with the rest of the horses and their holders from the place beyond the river where they had been left before the attack, set up their field-forge in what had once been the armourer’s shop. I mind that they brought in with them a little dark man with a thrall-ring round his neck. Some of the steading’s thralls had been caught up and kil...led in the fighting, others, seizing their chance, had run while the running was good.MoreLess
That first day is a jumble of crowded and shifting memories in my mind. We found a barrack-row with part of its roof still on, to make a shelter for our wounded, and started up cooking fires - there was plenty of dead wood about the place. We slaughtered some of the cattle. The rest would be kept for later need, but men fresh from battle need hot food with blood in it. Conn and his mates, coming in with the rest of the horses and their holders from the place beyond the river where they had been left before the attack, set up their field-forge in what had once been the armourer’s shop. I mind that they brought in with them a little dark man with a thrall-ring round his neck. Some of the steading’s thralls had been caught up and kil...led in the fighting, others, seizing their chance, had run while the running was good.MoreLess
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