Progress - Part 6

At the front of that party, Beam could see Lombard marching stoically, dragging the corpses of several goblins behind him by a rope. The other men with him were similarly well encumbered by corpses, though none were carrying quite as many as he, apparently lacking the strength.

Beam felt his mouth all open as he counted the amount they'd slain. There must have been twenty corpses in total. Goblins and giant spiders and then another creature that Beam didn't recognize.

Lombard must have felt him watching, even though he was such a distance away, for he sharply turned his head and locked eyes with Beam, pausing his march a moment as he stared.

Beam stared back for just a second. He saw Lombard's eyes flicker to the sack that Beam was carrying and then back to him.

Slowly, trying to appear as casual as possible, Beam turned away from him and continued his walk into the village, trying to pretend he didn't feel the set of eyes that were boring straight into his back.