Chapitre 31: Chapter 31: Debt, Part 5

"There are dead mercs all over the place," Sule said with a grunt. "They have no need of their swords. Or anything else, for that matter. What sort of fools were they, not to put a watch to prevent this very thing? Where is the woman?"

"Here," Malea called, then dropped neatly from her tree, a short bow in her hand. "I was trying to get a shot, for I have the right arrows for spikers, but it was too dark to manage it, and then I could not risk hitting any of you." She looked over the carnage—then looked away again, making a choked noise.

Binhadi gestured to Sule, who, without a word, began to set the various bodies and scattered body parts on fire.

Cemal left him to it and went to explore the woods to be certain the spikers were well and truly gone.

"They're gone," Mahzan called after him. "I sense a ghost in the trees, though. There." He pointed and Cemal went where he indicated, grimacing at what he found—a headless corpse, and to judge from the body…