Beyond Night
“Hardly rogues, but who can say with stupid barbarians? Let us hope their brethren fall as easily when the time comes to meet them on the battlefield.”
The dead were arranged, taken note of and hastily prepared for a mass pyre. This practice ate up much time in the light of the moon. The night deepened. As they approached the valley, the scouts spoke of in their reports.
Ralta joined Malitus in the front of the Legion. The soldiers had stopped and in the distance, beyond the great valley, something moved in the night.
Malitus wondered, “Ralta, pray tell, is all that beyond the valley? It looks like a vast caterpillar rolling away.”
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