Chapter 26
Demand
The hours that followed became a blur filled with unrelenting cold, pain, and growing numbness. At some point Mastin gave Yulen his socks to provide at least a meager amount of warmth and protection against the icy ground. The Bloods quickly stripped the Battle Lord of them, although they allowed him to keep the layer of mud he’d spread over his naked body. The few times they briefly stopped, his men huddled close to share as much of their own warmth as they could. Regardless, Yulen lost all feeling in his feet, and worse, in his hands as frostbite took over.
The Bloods also continued to deprive Yulen and his men of water and food, in addition to making them walk behind their own horses, instead of riding. So far, there hadn’t been any more of those brutal beatings imp
