416 CDXVI. The Anarchy

A small well from which drinking water could be extracted was just a few meters from the entrance, with a bucket lowered inside, hanging from a rope.

Crossing the small square courtyard, bordered by the four observation towers and its walls, Orvar led all the warriors inside the stone building that would house them at night.

Dag could not help but examine the size of that place, immediately realizing that it had been adapted to the few hunters that had lived there in recent decades: the beds were not enough for everyone and the bedrooms were too small, so they would have to settle for the floors of the entrance and maybe even the bathrooms.

The property was old and dilapidated and the decoration was almost completely absent: an old, heavy candlestick hung in the entrance room, under which there was a massive wooden table, which for a moment reminded Dag of the episode of the giant found dead in the hut.