Lord Ponticus's Counter-Attack (Part-6)

Remus, even facing the threat of imminent death showed no sign of slowing down.

While the men, hearing his shouts were ever more sure that it had to be an enemy, a belief that was reinforced by the fact that the tongue Tibians spoke could be said to be a variant dialect of Thesian.

This was because Tibas and Thesos shared a common heritage, being that it was from Tibias that the region of Thesos originated when people migrated there due to a massive flood a few thousand years ago.

Now, there was a difference between the two languages if one paid attention carefully, but the men among Alexander's ranks were no polyglots and many simply wanted to put this, frankly quiet bad assassins down and earn glory for themselves.

But just as some of the more trigger-happy men were about to let lose their arrows, they heard a loud shout expressing familiarity burst out from behind, 

"Remus! It's Remus!"