Chapter 4 ThornchillRollin stood on the parapet and surveyed the army before him. The Orc soldiers made a slow march toward the wall separating the valley from Midpeak and the mountain pass. Rollin expected the Orcs to make a swift charge toward his position. In fact, all his preparations had counted on it. He needed some way to get the Orc army to race toward him. The only thought he had was juvenile, but perhaps that's exactly what was needed. Rollin stood on a water cask, drew Thundersoul from its sheath and screamed, “Nar Thos!” It’s an Orcan insult which implies “You are more woman than warrior.”
The three front lines of Orcs and their kin screamed and took off running for the wall, abandoning any sense of military order.
Rollin stepped down off the barrel, laughing. Penn turned to
