บท 11: Killing The Bandits
Jakob's POV:
When I opened my eyes, I looked behind me and saw a dagger piercing the man's skull. A well-placed shot from my son. As I looked towards the stairs, I saw him smiling at me. My boy had officially killed his first man.
"I told you to stay upstairs with Rosie! " I shouted at him.
"I couldn't leave you. After all, I wouldn't know what to do with my life if you were to die. " The boy had drops of tears falling slowly from his eyes.
"I'll be fine, get Rosie, we'll go to the cabin quickly. It should be safe." I spoke, hoping that what I said was true.
" Rose, come down, it's safe now. " my son called from the top of the stairs.
"Are you sure Alek?" I heard her sniffling voice from the stairs.
" Yes I'm sure, we'll go to my place and stay there while this ordeal happens. "
Suddenly there were footsteps coming from the front door. Immediately, my son and I looked at the person who had entered the house. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it was my friend Robb.
" It's the whole bandit camp, they're attacking the town. They managed to kill 20 people in a sneak attack, but they are being held back by the guards, but some are sneaking around and starting their attacks on unarmed civilians". Robb stuttered out the information.
"We need to get back to my cabin, it should be a bit safer. "
" Aye, most people are congregating in the village centre or the tavern. So the bandits will concentrate on those areas. "
Hearing this, I saw my son gesture for Rosie to come down, before gesturing for her to be put on a piggyback. She jumped on and held on tight. It warmed my heart, but we have other pressing matters to attend to, such as getting us to safety.
We all decided it would be best to go out the back door and stick to the tree lines furthest away from the fighting to get to my hut. I looked up at the sky and saw great plumes of smoke rising through the village, damned cowards.
As we hurried through the tree line, it took us a few minutes to reach my hut, where we saw the bodies of masked men strewn across our front yard. With large bite marks on their necks and legs. It looked like a massacre as they all seemed to have collapsed face down, meaning they were trying to get away from whatever was attacking them.
As we approached the house we heard growling and the muffled screams of a man before he began to cry out in pain. My son, hearing this, woke up and gave a distinctive whistle which brought out the big dog from the back of the house with a bloodied jaw and a dagger sticking out of his thigh, which Anthony didn't seem to notice. The dog surprised me, having killed all those bandits to defend his home. Maybe it was a good use of a favour, after all he was protecting our home from being robbed. I'll give him twice as much as usual.
I opened the door to the hut and let them all in before quickly closing and locking the door behind us. "Robb, barricade the windows. "I told him, "I don't want them breaking in through the glass, I'll get our weapons just in case we need to defend ourselves if they do somehow get in. "
" Aye, I'll barricade all this. "
My son had just put Rosie down and decided to go to his rooms to get his bow and dagger. I went to my room and opened the wardrobe to reveal a Valyrian steel sword, the very one given to me by the Mad King. I didn't expect to be using it so soon," I grabbed it, put it on my hip and grabbed my bow and quiver.
Walking out of my room, I saw my son Rosie trying to calm Robb down. "I found out what happened to your wife, Robb. "
"Aye, she's staying at the tavern from what I hear. Sai..." Suddenly a loud bang on the door brought us all to our feet, I unsheathed my sword, my son drew his bow and aimed an arrow at the door while Robb raised his fists ready to deliver his infamous left, right and liver punch. A brutal combination to which I lost several times.
" Open the damn door, you cowards. Give us your coins and you may live. "
Suddenly the door burst open and a single man rushed in, shot by an arrow and mauled to death by a dog, a gruesome sight for those not used to it. I looked at my son and saw him giving the bandit a look of contempt. Like he was looking at an ant. "
The man's screaming eventually subsided, but not his shaking as the dog tore a large chunk out of his throat. The dog went over to Aleksi, lay down and started chewing. The boy and the dog formed a bond that not many could form with humans, let alone less intelligent animals like dogs. Although I guess it shows that humans usually do not want a bond unless it is formed through blood, sweat and tears.
I searched the bandit to see if he had any loot on him and saw that he had a pouch containing 10 silver stags. I seem to have made quite a profit today. Pouring out the coins, I put them in my own pouch and decided to leave the house and search the dead bandits, and to my surprise they had quite a lot of silver stags and coppers. around 57 silver stags and around 240 copper pennies. They had quite the haul on them, to bad they lost it due to a dog.
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