Unable to do anything without risk of hurting their allies below, the guards on the wall could do little more than watch as the hounds brutally tore through the formation outside the gate. Within moments, the brutal massacre stopped and the screams of the dying fell silent.
As the guards atop the walls began to draw weapons and cast spells, the hounds turned and ran back to the forest now that their actual prey was safe inside the wall of the village. At the edge of the forest, a couple of heavily armoured figures stepped out to retrieve the hounds, before turning back and disappearing back into the trees.
The guards at the village stood in stunned silence, with only the rippling of materials hanging from buildings in the wind causing noise. Heavy boots on stone broke the silence, as the Sergeant walked along the wall and descended a ladder, before finding the boy they had let in.
