>>5209511>>5209546>>5209732>>5210295>>5210456You decided to begin by speaking with Brutus Enforcer, the baron seemed to be in a sour mood and it was better to wait for him to drink some wine before asking him about your project of a river boat. You needed the agreement of the Lords on both sides of the river for this and fortunately if the Baron was one of them Lord Hostil was the other, and since he was dead you needed only the baron's consent. A new proof, if you needed one, that every problem had a name and a surname and could be dealt with with the help of brute force. So you decided to speak with another man who seemed to like brute force, the huge mountain of muscles that was on your right. You told him.
-Excuse me messire, you are... Brutus Enforcer if I remember well...
The man had a cheerful voice.
-Yes, I'm the guard's captain ! And nice swordplay by the way, you gutted the mage well !
You were surprised by this compliment and thanked him.
-Thank you very much. Some years of war have taught me how to use a sword, even if I prefer the axe !
The man laughed like some mercenaries that you knew back in the Christendom, the kind of men who just had broken the gates of a city and that have been allowed to rape and plunder for three days as per custom.
-You are an axe man, it means that you are wise. I use an enchanted sword personally, looted it on a poor bastard in Chityneighbour during a border skirmish. The bastard was the son of a Duke, it didn't help him ! At least I got a shiny new sword !
You said then.
-You waged war too ? I thought I was the only one here ! It is good to see a fellow knight who fought in foreign lands. I heard that there was fighting against the barbarians in the north and in Smaug ?
He approved and said.
-Yes, in Smaug, I was there, killing saurians all day, but the scalies are tough, we need to kill them all, they are a threat to our way of life... And it is hot... And their women... I served 10 years in the legion, I then decided to not enlist for 10 more years. Smaug was really a bad place to be. I never fought barbarians, only Chityneighbourgians, at the western border, their ladies are beautiful at least and their cities are rich. And they are weak, they fear us and never commit more than a few men to the border skirmishes. And you, your lordship, where you have fought ?
-Flanders, Guyenne and Aragon. Great campaigns too, last time it was in Flanders, to be honest those flemish are more peasants than soldiers, they hide behind a pikewall like it will help against heavy cavalry.. Hah ! Liars ! It is worthless ! We smash through them or we storm their cities, and it is not their spiky clubs that could threaten a French Knight, I will tell you, we will never be beaten. I got seven of them at Bruges, once two were killed the others tried to flee the walls and I had only to pursue. They were no noblemen so no quarters were given.
