Ch 28: One still alive

The Northerners in the fort engage with the trolls attacking as the battle breaks out between them.

If someone was there to see from a different place of higher height they can tell from the very start there a bloodbath is to occur and the ones to be in that role are the Viking men.

Fighting against trolls requires a good number of fighters to outmatch a single one in combat and yet they did not have that on their side when facing again a few of these creatures that swing their large weapons at them.

Took not long for these trolls to kill all the northern men as their bodies were cut to pieces and their guts and blood were out in the open for anyone to have their eyes see.

Sannoth makes her way inside keeping her human form looking at the scene of dead humans laying. She felt disappointed to not have the enjoyment of killing at least one, but looking at the dead would have to do.

During that moment the trolls work in destroying each of the buildings in the fort searching for one of their own kept in this place.

"I hope we are not too late to find our own." the red troll chief said when coming up beside Sannoth. She took a look at him, seeing that his large sword had been stained with blood and small bits of guts.

"And if you are then what differences is it going to make? Just another dead troll out on these lands." her tone was cold showing that there was no emotion in it.

"I know your demon and all as your kind do not show to not have compassion or mercy for anything and that of your own, but keep such words to yourself to understand." the chief troll said and got a response of a hiss from her along with the showing of her demonic eyes.

The two enter a stand-off eye contest, but Sannoth breaks it off when coming to sense there was a single living northern alive and hiding among the dead using a body to be covered till all the trolls have gone away.

"It seems you're trolls have gotten lazy with making sure all of the humans here are dead," Sannoth says for everyone to hear right as she comes up with two dead bodies one on top of the other.

She didn't do anything, just stood near the two bodies to be waiting for something to happen and so it did as the body moved quickly getting up from the ground the men could tell his cover was blown and there was no way to keep it up since discovered by this unknown female with the trolls.

A sword in hand only he thrust it toward Sannoth aiming for the stomach to be impaled, yet in just one fast second she already acted faster than him. She grabbed that same arm with the sword and bent it back until the bone broke out of the skin and showed itself in the open air along with the high volume of the men screaming from the intense pain.

"Aw, you little weak thought you had any chance at hurting me with that sword, how pitiful."

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[At the neighbor farms]

"By the bloody gods, I can't believe what I'm seeing with my eyes their hearts have truly been ripped out of them," Lorthr says looking at the two bodies of one male and one female placed each other naked as they always were.

He and Paul have journeyed their way to the next-door farm entering inside the home of the owners, finding them laying dead in their place until removed to be in front of the two men.

"Just as I have said it is a nonhuman thing to be done by something that didn't need the use of weapons," Paul said finding it to be a chilling sight for one to have happened to the man wouldn't want to die like this.

"Agree my friend, it is a blessing that the boy was able to be untouched by whatever it was that came that night." Lorthr thinks back to the boy's face when seeing him with the slaves on this farm watching over him for the time. The horror of a little one witnessing this sight.

"Boy spoke not very many words and only said to me when he could. The boy said there were two shadows here in this room then went away. Honestly, I can't make much of that believe me, I think it is the demon who attacks them during the night."

"The boy said two, so it has to be the demon and its master that was here last night, you know those demons can not come into the world without a way of their own or by another to summon them," Lorthr said true demons don't have an easy way to enter the world from theirs,

"Yet who is fuck dumb enough to do an evil act as that." Paul takes a minute to himself to think then speaks again.``oh no you don't think it to be someone from our lands in the settlement Lorthr." Paul didn't like that to be true if someone in there had taken an interest in the dark arts, having opened a way for a demon to come out.

"It could be then again there might be someone from somewhere else that northlands are large and wide, but one to have brought demons here might not be hard to find if we were to get our best trucker on it right away."

"Yeah, but first this needs to be brought to Borgare, our chief," Paul said as the men with him agreed this problem must be informed to the man, so they can act quickly on finding the murderers.

"Also what is to be done with boys anyway." Lorthr moved his head to face Paul when that question was asked. "What do you mean?"

"I mean which of us is to take in the boy, we can't very much leave with the slaves for long no telling, I don't trust them to take him in and be responsible."

"So what are you offering to take the boy into your home to live with you and your wife," Lorthr said only to see that man shake his head to decline, showing that there is no way they can take in this boy or wanting to take care of another dead couple's child.

"Sadly my friend, I can't do that because my wife is already pregnant with a child and we are only ready for that one, not an older child and that of space," Paul tells the man.

Lorthr let out a sigh, annoyed in trying to figure out a place for the boy to stay as it can't be his home either."My home can't be it either when you fill this much with five people, what about the boy's grandparents or their siblings or cousins." The man asks Paul, hoping to be a good answer for them.

"Bruni's parents are both dead with no more children than just him when he was at a young age and Oddny doesn't live around somewhere far from the settlement as she travels here alone, so there is no idea about that family tree." hearing all this from Paul adds more trouble to the problem instead that gets Lorthr mad into having no other choice than to help the boy.

"Oh fucking gods fine, I'll take the boy to my home explain it to the wife and see what we can do about it later. Right now best to have the two cover up before showering them to the chief at this state."

"Yeah, they do need to have some clothing on their skin." Paul and Lorthr got started to have the bodies covered with their clothes to be found in the room. When done they both use the blanket of the thing to place and carry the bodies out of the house.

At the front Lorthr to speak."You go ahead and bring the bodies to the great hall, I got the boy to take back to my farm."