Winterfinding
“Dirty, disheveled, and sore, Jena stood holding the pushcart up that she had dumped the corpse from gazing down with a clinical stare. She pulled the grey bandana, a rag really, she had been wearing over her mouth and nose down. It had barely mitigated the stench of the bodies, but at least, it had been something.
She wiped her face with the cleanest part of her sleeve she could find and tossed aside the pushcart. Picking up one of the five small kegs from just behind her, she popped a cork out... of its top spout and began splashing its contents out over the bodies below while slowly circling the pit. She made it nearly all the way around before the keg emptied, she tossed it towards the pushcart, and picked up a second keg repeating the process until all the kegs were used. The potash lye made the queerly blue and grey dead flesh of the naked bodies glisten in the sun. Jena paused in her work taking in the ugly faces of the soldiers.
These had been children really. Only one or two of them looked more than twenty, most had been beardless.MoreLess
She wiped her face with the cleanest part of her sleeve she could find and tossed aside the pushcart. Picking up one of the five small kegs from just behind her, she popped a cork out... of its top spout and began splashing its contents out over the bodies below while slowly circling the pit. She made it nearly all the way around before the keg emptied, she tossed it towards the pushcart, and picked up a second keg repeating the process until all the kegs were used. The potash lye made the queerly blue and grey dead flesh of the naked bodies glisten in the sun. Jena paused in her work taking in the ugly faces of the soldiers.
These had been children really. Only one or two of them looked more than twenty, most had been beardless.MoreLess
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