Empires of Ashes

"Yes but they were assigned to me by you, thus they are your men"
*He sits up, the light of several candles glinting off of his armour*

"Fair enough, you did well"

"Thank you"

"I noticed 2 dead Barkans on the way in"

"Barkan? The big Wolfie thing?"

"yes"

"Oh, one killed a pair of my bodyguards before I killed it, and the other took a spear through the eye before it could do much. I'm thinking of turning one into a cloak."

*he draws a knife, and drops to a knee* "Normally when we go up against these, my men don't leave much of a corpse, they tend to keep twitching" *he stabs it, grunting with effort* "I'd like to see what makes them tick, so to speak" *he starts examining the corpse*

"Try not to mangle it too much, this prince hinted at turning it into a new cloak for winter"

"I'll skin it for him, i'm more intrested... *grunt* in the *he rips out its heart* inner workings... hold this will you? *he passes it over* ooh? two hearts" *he passes another*

"You did well to kill it, those things are nasty"

"Not overly bright though"

*overly shocked soldier* "......dude!" *Hands it to the guy next to him causing that soldier to shout in Cymraic, before laughing*

"of course"
OOC ya do know thats a real beastie raeven?

OOC: cant find it on google

IC:*he chuckes* "you're an educated lad, aren't you interested what makes the beast tick?"

OOC real name andrewsarchus

"What makes the beast tick?"

OOC: Andrewsarchus, named after Andrew Sarchus, the men who probably discovered it.

OOC: Man*

"You were holding it, but if you look here *he opens the hole a little wider* you can see its lungs"

"Well then I'll let you sleep. we advance properly tomorrow"

*he proceeds to skin the beast, and leave the pelt next to it* "Okay even i admit that looks nasty"

".....that's erm.....lovely!"

LI walks over to the kelthrovi

"Enjoy the evening uncle Trajan"
*He begins to remove the armour*

*he stands up, covered to the elbows in gore*

Trajan nods and leaves

LI looks at the corpse

"Two hearts, its a strange one, and its just pure muscle"

she shrugs

Soldier: You seem to be enjoying yourself

Soldier: You seem to be enjoying yourself

"Intellectual curiosity"

*he grins*

She looks at the soldier

*he pulls out a cloth and starts to wipe himself down*

she puts down her blade and kneels next to it

"Impressive beast, no?" *he's still cleaning the gore off his arms, his armour has remained spotless throughout*

she seems to be inspecting the wounds

"The stab to the left lung was the killing blow, the prince, single handedly apparently"

she picks up her blade, glances at it, then the beast's neck, then stands

"Not one for talking hm? I can understand that" *he walks over to the other beasts corpse, and thrusts his spear into its neck, it twitches, then stops*

"one swing"

"One swing? To kill the beast?"

she nods

"I'll be honest I wasn't expecting you to be a woman, dracians kept that one quiet. Also I'd prefer to stay at a distance and bleed it to death"

she turns towards one of the dead tribals
swings her klaive at it's midsection
clean in two
"one swing"

*he moves his spear to make three strikes into the leg, chest, and right arm* "personally I go for three"

"too slow"

*he brings up his shield* "I don't have to be" *he thrusts three times, slowly and deliberately, from behind the shield*

without warning she hooks her klaive around his shield and pulls it aside, going for a neck stab with her other weapon, stopping before the blade actually touches him

*he brings the but of his spear up to block it, and steps in with his shield, stopping a moment before it hits her stomach*

"I would normally head butt you... But you have a helmet on and I don't"