Captain Shelley
Jourd'Juno, 4th Primera
Shelley tried not to feel any hope as the caravans lumbered into what looked like a small city. She tried not to feel any hope at all. They'd kept her alive -- her, and the rest of the prisoners -- but they'd been none too kind.
She corrected that assessment. Most of the prisoners were alive. The bandits who had taken them had been stingy with giving the prisoners water. Two older men had died.
Bellica Ilona was dead, too, along with some other members of the seventeenth regiment. They had died fighting off the invading army, however. They never had the chance to be prisoners.
Shelley knew when it was better to resist, knew when it was better to surrender. She could see they were outnumbered as the bandits rode into town.
She and Bethany had be
