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SOON AFTER ANDE AND Feln took out their target, the second group struck. The new victim’s body was better hidden than the first one’s—Keo and Bien had somehow managed to get him outside the walls, and buried him in the woods. Ande had a hard time believing anyone would ever find him, though it baffled him as to why they’d want that.
Meanwhile, rumors spread about the first disappearance. Some of them were benign, relying on simple explanations, usually desertion. But not everyone thought that this soldier was likely to desert. Some whispered that something else must have happened, and eyes occasionally drifted to where the goblins were housed.
Then a few days later, the first body was found, hidden in the same building where the man was killed. The smell inevitably gave it awa
