Hunter
“Tell me.”
My head was spinning, fighting complete rage. We had made it to a quiet lounge in the upper levels of the mountain. The sunlight streamed through the open arches and the space was dominated by soft furnishings. I was shaking with rage, I had to pace the floor while Luke stood by one of the large arches overlooking the sky.
“The messenger came last night; they reached us too late. From what I got out of him before he died, the army had attacked in the night, they had made no sound, there was no warning, they started in the lower levels of the city. Slaughtering everyone they come across.”
I grabbed the fireplace, my hands cracking and splintering the dark wooden surround.
The women and children, they slaughtered them.
“By the time the guard was alerted they had bre
