"The creatures attacked us. It was night, and we were distracted, so it was our fault that this happened," Pydna carelessly leaned against the column of the common room, where everyone was gathered around the ground brazier for the morning meal.
A small group was gathered around the man, who was having his leg sewn at the moment. He grunted and bit a cloth while the fort's cook performed the surgery.
Lord Arsenio, the new tagmatarchis of the Fortress of Marbium, was that person. The attack had taken place in the early evening when the Kroton arrived in Marbium with a small entourage.
As Glax couldn't help, he preferred to find out what had happened.
Pydna was one of the people who had just arrived, as were Glax and Alexandre. She was a tall, stocky woman with a square face full of freckles and the expression of an old, bored cat.
