He had already resolved himself to give a respectable sendoff to the man, but had quickly met the obstacle of not having anything to dig with. He refused to leave the man’s body for a bunch of overgrown badgers or deer to eat, so just leaving the body out in the open was not an option. Logically, it was a waste of time, but one could not always remain logical.
He instead decided to make a small fire. Fire was rather easy to make by creating sparks with two daggers, one of which he had taken from one of the dead archers. It was in no way a glorious pyre, but it got the job done. He watched solemnly as the corpse burned, nodding toward what had once been a powerful enemy as the flames consumed it.
Despite being in the same place for a couple of hours while preparing and burning the body, n
