The Pack's Rebels
There were no soldiers and no archers monitoring the paths up the mountain, no one to greet Thaelen on his way down except a belligerent family of goats napping on the sun-warmed rock and chewing on dandelions lazily.
The Alden ships had pulled back into deeper water in response to the attack, however two had been wrecked, the ruins still burning as they sank into the ocean slowly and the waves carrying in fragments of wood, barrels, and bodies. The sand was littered with the dead – all human to Thaelen’s quick glance.
Amongst the bodies the vampire soldiers moved driving their blades into some, drinking from others, recovering from the fierceness of battle, and settling into the temporary l