He does this effortlessly, an easy assumption that it is his task. There are people who lead, it can be as simple as that. Looking at Danica as they come down from the trees, Marin wants to comfort her and is afraid to even try. Without a word spoken he has an understanding with the old warrior and Pero Villani that nothing will be said about what happened at the forest’s edge. The others were too far away, they will have seen nothing that needs explaining. Well, one thing. Skandir tells his remaining men that he let the last Osmanli go, weaponless, so he could tell the serdars of the khalif’s army who had destroyed them here. If he gets back alive, he adds. There are no tools in the cabins, but a little farther off they find some buried by the woods. An attempt at hiding them from thieves. There are shovels, axes, woodcutters’ saws, in three graves. They set about digging a true grave on the far side of the road for Skandir’s men.
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