Salt Storm: The Salted Series: Episodes #31-35 by Galvin Aaron

Author:Galvin, Aaron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aames & Abernathy Publishing
Published: 2021-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

19

LENNY

Trekking across the Bouvetøya cavern floor of ice and stone, Lenny led the column of Selkie prisoners he and Jemmy T had helped to rescue from the killing fields and crematorium work. At the rear of their train, Tom Weaver escorted a lone Orc prisoner – the crematorium guard, Yusuf, bound and gagged.

At the head of their column, Lenny was afforded the primary view of what awaited them back at the Sailfish train and loading platforms. Some of those who fought in Røyrkval had cracked open barrels of the Orc supplies and divvied up portions of bread and fish among the slew of newly freed Selkie prisoners, all huddled and sat together. For all the masses gathered there, the weeping and whispered chatter among them, it was those beyond the Selkie groupings that drew Lenny Dolan’s attention most.

Vasili and others far taller than he stood in a semi-circle on guarded watch over the wounded Orc leader, Commander Pohl, and near a dozen of his Orc soldiers. All were seated or lain upon the platform with their hands bound behind their backs and gags in their mouths. Their blood-streaked skin and armor bore the hallmarks of battle, their faces lined with defeat. Most appeared as though they had resigned themselves to their fate. A few wrestled and failed to free themselves of their bonds. Commander Pohl did not fight his Selkie captors, or his bonds. His eyes trained instead on a pair of his soldiers lynched bodies’, both swaying at the end of ropes that had been tied to a support beam railing above the platform steps.

Lenny’s gaze narrowed on those who presided over the Orc condemned – Henry Boucher and his gang of Lepers.

Brutus worked alongside them too. Man-handling the corpse of an executed Orc, he lifted the body free of the noose it swung from, all to make room for another soon to come. Brutus tossed the dead Orc soldier aside, then headed for the platform as if meaning to choose his next victim. He hesitated when catching sight of Lenny and those returning.

“Oi! Found another to dangle, have we, Dolan?” Brutus asked, then waved his hand toward the platform. “He’ll have to take a place in line. We’ve others here to go first that have been waiting too long already.” He pointed one of his brat-sized fingers at the prisoners there. “Aye, and their dear Commander Pohl there is to go last of all. Meant to run him through with my sword, so I did. When I saw the wee children and the women he put away to suffer and starve though . . .” Brutus stroked his red-faced cheeks, the veins in his neck popping for each word spoke. “Well, let’s just say a blade would be too quick for him and such crimes.”

You haven’t seen the worst of it. Lenny thought, stopping shy of the platform as the others in groups came to stand along with him. The Orc prisoner, Yusuf, was trembling in Tom Weaver’s grip as he was brought toward the fore.

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