Civilization- Barbarians by Tim Underwood

Author:Tim Underwood [Underwood, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

And now comes the tale of the famed tragedy of the day.

In this time of victory, though it was a victory that pained me deep inside, for seven more of my elves, brave men, men of valor and glory had been killed in that final charge, and three more were maimed in such a way that they would never be able once more to fight in the porcupine lines of battle, in this time of victory yet one more loss would we suffer.

The remaining barbarians scattered in all directions.

We had hidden the pregnant women in the forest on the far side of the village from where the battle took place. But the village was small, and the far side was only a few hundred yards away.

One group of barbarians, including the man who had led this horde here after we showed him mercy, ran across the open field the village was built on, and by foul chance, he ran directly towards where the pregnant women were hidden.

Chasing them was Arnhelm and two dozen soldiers, but these barbarians far outsped the elves, as they had longer strides, and had thrown aside their long spears and javelins, and were only holding their hand axes, while Arnhelm and his force were fully armed as they followed.

Marcus and another group of warriors had followed a slightly bigger group of the barbarians who had fled in the opposite direction towards the sea shore.

It was only when the barbarians were most of the way to where the pregnant women were hidden, with Namys, our midwife, that I realized the danger.

I had spent the preceding minutes with my mind full of accounting for the damage that had been done, and ensuring that the barbarians who were running towards the larger groups of my men got no chance to attack an unprepared low morale group.

When I saw that they were heading for the place with the pregnant woman I ordered them to do what I’d ordered all of the other weaker morale groups who were in the way of fleeing barbarians to do: Get out of the way.

The barbarians were beaten, and I would far prefer every one of them who yet lived to escape and tell the tale to losing a single further person and killing all of them.

And I found then that Hamali’s wife had entered labor during the course of the battle, and she breathed and gasped in pain with the midwife sitting by her side, while the other women encouragingly smiled.

Seeing the group coming I ordered the women to flee. But Trilia could not run as the child was already in the process of being born. The midwife, Namys, tried to pull her away with her, but then about half dozen barbarians broke out of the woods and saw them. They ran towards the two women, waving their axes.

They were both going to be killed. Namys grabbed her spear and pulled it out and stood to defend Trilia from the five barbarian warriors coming towards them.

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