54. DECISIONS
As promised, the scout was waiting outside the tavern, sitting on a basic wooden chest. Another man accompanied him, his face looked grey, not with illness, but rather sorrow. Watching their approach, the deserter stood up and opened the lid. Pepin quickly counted the red cloaks and uniforms, before nodding at Caius. Handing over the leather tube, his former brother looked inside before shrugging his shoulders. “I’ll have to trust you. I can’t read,” he admitted. “We trained together, I’d never betray you like that.” Caius returned. “You’d betray your own kind for them” the other man nodded towards Pepin, who stood back preparing for trouble. “What our kind did, and is still doing to the wolves, is wrong. You seem a decent man, and my brother in arms trusts you, so I know that
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