“How do you know this?” Shouted one of the recent captives.
“What has the Old Law ever done to them?” Called out another.
Mavra leaned forward, resting her arms on the wagon in front of her. “It seems that sharing and equality is not good enough for some people, and they want a system where few benefit and most go without. This is their way of enforcing it. We know this because people standing around you even now have witnessed the dead villages. They have allies in wizards who are trying to find the answer to this senseless slaughter even as I now speak.”
“And what do you expect us to do?” Called out the first, one of the men they had brought out with them.
“What would you do?” Mavra replied.
“I am just a farmer, with a wife and children,” the man replied. “What can I do?”
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