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In the last chapter, we met Alex, the Lieutenant of a company of men. He shot the Sergeant, and become the leader.
I woke with a groan.
“Come on, Alex, it’s time to get moving.” I opened my eyes, only to stare into the face of my sister, Alice. I rolled out of bed, a movement drilled into me by years of waking at midnight to fight for my life, grabbing my scabbard and walking over to my closet.
“What do you want now Alice? It must be, like, 3:00 in the morning,” I exclaimed whilst pulling on my breeches and jacket. I always wore a light mail shirt, designed to stop an assassination by a knife in the night.
“Rick went to the Dwarf fortress, got a contract. A Thane wants us to clear a goblin camp, they keep stealing all the surface food sources, and there’s a shortage now. He is offering 10,000 Dir to do it, more if you bring him all the food you can find, and for the Chief, alive.”
I sighed, thinking on how low on men I was after 3 years. I had started with just over 40 men, and now I was down to 9, excluding me, Rick, my sister, who was just a good a fighter as anyone else, perhaps even better than most, and a scout I had hired to guide us through the mountains to the Fortress.
“Alright, does he know how many there are, any Shamans, any locations, ANYTHING at all?”
“Well, he knows the location.