14
Into The Breech
It was well past twilight and on to full dark by the time Raedrick and Povol crept their way down from their rocky perch and to the brigands’ camp site.
Or what had been the brigands’ camp site.
The fire still smoldered, the glowing coals and last remaining flames clearly visible in the blackness between the trees, but it had clearly not been tended in some time. The snow around the site was trampled almost to a solid block, making it exceedingly difficult to determine what happened where and when.
The bodies were easy to find, though. Three men, lined up in a row with their hands crossed over their chests, all dressed in the haphazard attire that marked them as part of the brigand party. Raedrick breathed a sigh of relief to see neither Julian nor Sebastini among t
