More blood pooled at their feet, as their circle of men surrounded that singular man. "We didn't even get his name," Harland noted. "And he was such a troublesome foe…"
Vol grunted in acknowledgement. "If there had been more people of note around him, he would have been worse." He glanced at Penelope, leaving the second part of that statement unsaid. If she hadn't been there to draw his focus as she had, and to defend herself in the process, the fight would have been even more troublesome.
"No wonder he caught Vagrin," Northy said. "The bastard was strong, for a certainty."
"Earl Brighteyes is closing in, bit by bloody bit," Harland said. "We had his silence for so long, and then he comes up with a troublesome plan like this. I did not even know such men existed. I did not know that one could receive Blessings from Nocturna."
