"To arms!" Ares called out as he raised his own spear.
They had been travelling for the entire next day rather peacefully. There was nothing that molested them, and though they spent a little while checking the tracks of the buffalo that they had seen the night previous to see if anything had been hunting them, they continued onward.
They had gone through a large area that was sparsely populated by some thin trees and not much else. Every so often they spotted a boar here and there, nothing out of the ordinary, or at least not to Ares and his companion, especially not to Beor. If anything was amiss, he didn't mention it.
Yet when it had approached late afternoon they had seen smoke off in the distance, and as they swiftly trekked towards it, they noticed a scene most foul.
