The Last Banquet (Bell Mountain) - Plot & Excerpts
The fellow was a swineherd, but he had no pigs. “Heathen took ’em, every one,” he said. “Don’t know how I’m going to make it through the winter. They burned my master’s house and made off with his daughters, too. I’ve been hiding out, eating scraps. It’s too dangerous to travel anywhere, and there’s nowhere to go, anyhow. “But I remember that bunch because they were going east instead of west, and it was before their whole army got chased away from Obann. There was a whole herd of ’em, and they were Griffs, all right. It’s Griffs who do fancy things to their hair. I was up on that little hill, right up there”—he pointed to an isolated hillock crowned with trees—“and they went by right past me, down below. Good thing they didn’t see me!” “I’m looking for a man and two children,” Helki said, “taken by the Griffs. Did you see them?” “Clear as day,” the swineherd said. “A man and two kids, with ropes around their necks, poor devils. But there was nothing I could do to help ’em.
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