Proxy Wars by C.J. Fielding

Author:C.J. Fielding [Fielding, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 November 95 AD Cuba-Trevor’s Anger

Trevor was imagining all the horrible things he would do to any of the invaders who had the misfortune to be captured alive. A day ago, he received word that a large force was coming to attack them. The large force was in dozens of longboats, and it appeared many of the men in them were wearing jaguar pelts.

It wasn’t a lot to go on, but Trevor was glad to get that much. Until last year when his dad suggested lighthouses, no one but Landowners were allowed to have buffalo. Too much of a chance of a revolt. The problem was that after the Totonac had attacked them the previous year, they needed to reorganize their defenses, and one of the new defenses was an early warning system. John suggested that Trevor build tall towers with lights on top as navigational aids and lookout points. They put one at the edge of each village and town on the coast, but they also put them at the places that their longboats saw first when they returned from the mainland. The problem was the lookout points were only good if the lookouts could warn the villages before invaders could reach them, so the Landowners agreed to one lookout who was allowed to have a buffalo. The Landowners still greatly outnumbered the lookouts, but it was a worry nonetheless. With the Landowners intentionally limiting the number of lookouts, it meant that the lookout could only tell them when an attack was incoming, so Trevor did not have much information to go on.

Once Trevor got the news at his home on the Village on the Hill, it took no time to round up the Landowners to fight off these invaders. Most of the people who lived at the Village on the Hill were Landowners who had buffalo. They were either originally part of his wife's tribe when he married her or one of the many young men who came to Cuba seeking a better life away from the Trade Alliance. Trevor did not trust most of the people he ruled, but every man who was a part of the Village on the Hill understood that the rest of the island was against them, so they had to stand together to keep control. It's why it was the only place on the island with three hundred buffalo riders. If the other villages and towns revolted, they would be able to instantly deal with the problem. Although with the Totonac, or perhaps another Mesoamerican nation invading, it would be a political win. It would show how powerful Trevor and his Landowners were and how much the dirty, ignorant, lazy peasants needed them.

As Trevor and his Landowners rode out to deal with the invasion, he sent two of the youngest buffalo riders to two of the Sea Warden’s bases to move them to action. The invaders came by sea, and Trever fully expected them to flee when his riders came, so

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