Chapter 10Troy did nothing out of the ordinary after the campaign against the free-sword bandit pack. There were very few prisoners, and they got tattooed with the no rescue sign and sold to the slavers. Troy was careful to make sure that the man who had led the band had died in the fighting, questioning several of the survivors and positively identifying the corpse in question.
The cave that he and the others had huddled into had been found, the shielding brambles cut down for no obvious reason other than sheer destructiveness. He was unspeakably relieved that Gen had been able to create a way out for them and that he’d been willing to do so. His own life had been at stake, of course, but he might not have realized how bad it would have been to have been taken prisoner by the rabble—desp
