Ten
“You left your post, Sol,”
Maxen doesn’t look angry, just dismayed. His head is turned away from her so that Dr. Roseann can clean his wound. Every so often, he winces. Otherwise, his pale eyes scan the devastation the raiders left in their wake.
The storehouse flames burned until the raiders had taken what they wanted and disappeared. Solma joined Ilga and Silo desperately trying to douse the fire, but with only three buckets and a host of incapacitated friends, there wasn’t much they could do. Ilga sustained a nasty injury to her head and couldn’t keep going, leaving Solma and Silo to deal with the damage.
The raiders ignored their efforts to douse the fire, smashing the storehouse open and shouldering bags of grain, dried meats, and any jars of food that hadn’t exploded in the h
