In the days following the destruction of the Taltai family, squadrons from the Terdon Tribe killed their way to the west bank of the Big Horn River one after another.
For a time, the west bank was filled with the neighing of horses and the rising of dust; the civilians in Niutigu Valley all said "it's thundering in winter"—which was actually the thunderous rumbling of a myriad of horses trampling the ground.
Moreover, because of the winter winds, the people of Terdon were upwind, while Niutigu Valley was downwind.
The smoke from the barbarians burning cattle and horse dung mixed with the dust kicked up by hooves, carried by the westerly wind towards the East Bank, made the people of Iron Peak County cough from morning till evening.
Just the smoke from the barbarians' fires was so terrible, what if those barbarians crossed the river?
