The crucified bodies were frozen solid and caked in layers of thick snow.
Uriel walked between the bodies of the ones he knew and muttered a little prayer.
"To the Supreme, you return, and may the Supreme envelope you in his mercy," he softly muttered, it was a prayer he learned from the notes left by one of the Saints of Argeum.
He returned to the gate where Urlo was leading Zeresha and several people from the village were there to see them off, including Larkin and his wife Medeline, and clinging onto Larkins's hand was his cute little daughter Jule.
Over the past three days Larkin had tried numerous times through numerous tactics to try and get the two of them to remain, he even offered to let them take wives from the woman of the village at the next festival of Cair-Andriel if they stayed.
Uriel desired no one but Cassandra, and as for Urlo the offer only seemed to make him more eager to leave.
