on the outskirts. There they managed to get Dark down in the same fashion they got her on the horse. Wollfen went ahead knocking on the mans door getting his attention.
The man that came out immediately saw what the situation was and waved them inside,
“Come in, bring her inside, okay that's good. Take her in that room there and place her on the table.”
They did as they were told and the three of them looked on as he inspected the bolts and wounds, then he finally looked up.
“She has lost a fair amount of blood but she doesn't appear to be too weak, I will get her ready for surgery. There is a woman in town who lives in the cabin next to Kels' tavern, could one of you run off and fetch her? She is my nurse and magic user, I will need her.”
Solynne agreed and took off for the tavern, the other two continued to stand there watching on.
“Well you two unless you have some medical knowledge and can help out I suggest you leave for now, come back in an hour and I will let you know how things go.” Wollfen nodded and they made their way out, “By the way, where shall I find you?”
“We will be at Kels' tavern, I have a room there and my name is Wollfen.”
“Very well Wollfen, please don't worry, she is in good hands.”
“Thank you kind sir.”
“Oh don't thank me yet, you haven't seen the bill.” Kane chuckled as they walked away.
The two of them walked their horses to the tavern and passed a woman moving quickly in the opposite direction along the way, that was obviously the nurse. Once they arrived Wollfen went off to have a talk with Kels to fill him in on what was going on. Kane sat himself down with Solynne and the two of them had an ale each. After a few minutes Kane spoke up,
“Have you ever seen anything like that before? Orcs using people as target practice?” Solynne shook her head slowly, she too was thinking hard on what had happened, “I don't get it, orcs don't have a mind for anything other than hunting and eating, that lot was actually having themselves some fun in their own sick way.”
“It is new to me that's for sure, maybe the orcs are changing. A year ago who could have predicted the onslaught against the Nightclans, and to not only defeat them but wipe them out too? Since then there have been minor attacks all along the eastern borderlands of the Kingdom but nothing like that.” Solynne fell silent, there wasn't much that could be rationalized.
The two of them sat in silence for awhile longer staring into their ales, then Kane piped up again,
“Do you suppose this big job Wollfen wants us to do is about the orcs?” Solynne couldn't be sure,
“I can't really say, I do think they are a part of it, but not sure how much. I'm not sure Wollfen has too much of an idea either.”
“Really? I thought he was clear about his objectives?”
Solynne looked at him, not sure what she could tell him, Wollfen was one who played his cards close to his chest.
“All I know is he wants to put together a team of six or eight people and train them up to be leaders who are skilled in the arts of warfare and magics. Beyond that he has only given me hints as to what we are to do once that's accomplished, this is early days yet.”
“How many people has he gathered so far?”
“You and me, and it was to be Dark too, but who knows.”
“Oh man, so this is all we got? I thought you were further along.”
Kane shook his head beginning to think he had made a mistake coming here.
“I don't know about that, look at what happened today, we took on what was it? Ten orcs? We did pretty well working together and we only met earlier today, I think Wollfen's choice of people has stood the test.”
Kane had to agree with that, they had worked well together and executed their attack flawlessly, he wondered what they could achieve if they got to know each other better?
Wollfen came over and sat down with three mugs of ale,
“Kels is going to give Dark time off to heal and he is allowing me