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You had to get help. You hadn’t been trained for combat yet, and you had nothing to defend yourself with. Wasting no time, you ran onwards to the camp.
Arriving at your destination shortly, you sought out a group of soldiers. Sitting in a circle playing a card game, you found it hard to catch their attention – after asking politely once, twice, thrice, asking a little louder and finally tapping on one of their shoulders, you finally got an irritated response from one of the group.
“What do you want, little runt?”
Not recoiling an inch, you politely told the man that there was trouble on the market square, and that some of the recruits might be in danger. Could some of the soldiers come along to hopefully get them back in time before everyone else was also delayed?
The soldiers who heard your story groaned. Begrudgingly standing up and fetching their weapons, they started making their way to town while loudly complaining about the “feeble recruits who’d make a problem out of every little squabble”. About seven soldiers found it necessary to accompany you, along with a sergeant who was the loudest in his dissatisfaction.
“I’m only going as a formality. If everything there is above water, you’re all going to be on latrine scrubbing duty until I’m rid of you!”
It didn’t take long to change their minds. Around the small yard on the edge of town where you had stopped earlier, the battered, bruised and sometimes even severely wounded northern recruits stumbled into view. Those who were cut up the worst were no longer able to walk, being carried by their comrades while wailing whenever one of their wounds was put under strain.
When interrogated by the sergeant, the most comprehensive word they could muster without drowning in their own breath was “merchants”.
Suddenly, the urgency of the situation had dawned on the soldiers. After barking some short commands at the soldiers who were with him, the sergeant began running towards the town centre. Giving you his knife, one of the soldiers told you to run along with them while drawing his own shortsword. Having drawn their weapons, the soldiers quickly began to follow their superior.
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