***ALEX'S POV***
Now that Jake and I had talked to the family, there was something that we needed to take care of. And that was the fact that there were dozens of dead bodies in the woods. We couldn't just leave them out there like that, since when they started to rot, it would be very bad for the villagers. We needed to take care of this right away.
We took a couple of shovels, axes, and matches into the woods with us. I was planning on making a large funeral pyre for these men, not that I was doing it out of respect for them. I needed to take care of the rest of the people. It was them that I cared about.
Jake and I knew which direction to go in now, but even if we didn't, all I needed to do was follow my nose. It smelled like that horrible stench mixed with blood, and that was putting it lightly. A more blunt and honest description was just too much for my brain to come up with at the moment.
