581 DLXXXI. The Tuxedo

He ajar his eyes, trying to focus all his attention on hearing to perceive something foreign to that environment, but the only sound he could identify was that of flies and other insects buzzing around corpses to feed on their bodily fluids and meat.

From a distance, all the army was gathered in the castle and in front of its door, as if, all that time, since Dag had started fighting Hakon, the city was off-limits to them because of the enormous dangers that were looming over it.

Bloodfang continued to snort, seeing no one and believing that what was happening was actually just a staging to exalt Dag somehow.

His complaints were initially directed at Kranus, with whom he felt he had more confidence, but then changed targets, turning to Reidar and Freydis, who, being those who knew the subject most closely, briefly tried to sum up what had happened in the past and all the times the Frostsinners had tried to test Dag, slowing down his achievements or objectives.