He looks around. The horseman is dead, and the horse is breathing its last with painful, rattling breaths. Three steps take him over there; he draws his utility knife, bends down, and slits the horse's jugular.
You do not let horses suffer -- not any men, yours or those of the enemy, but those are all accounted for.
Teja straightens up. "Now, let us see where the pirate took the cart, and if the cart does contain gold; and if not, if any men are left alive on that cart that might know where the gold is."
That they would speak, Teja does not doubt for a moment.
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Re: Ambush
Date: 2008-09-28 11:46 pm (UTC)He looks around. The horseman is dead, and the horse is breathing its last with painful, rattling breaths. Three steps take him over there; he draws his utility knife, bends down, and slits the horse's jugular.
You do not let horses suffer -- not any men, yours or those of the enemy, but those are all accounted for.
Teja straightens up. "Now, let us see where the pirate took the cart, and if the cart does contain gold; and if not, if any men are left alive on that cart that might know where the gold is."
That they would speak, Teja does not doubt for a moment.
"Or we might recapture your pikeman for that."