Those Above: The Empty Throne Book 1 - Plot & Excerpts
The day after the battle was spent in a riotous orgy of victory, fuelled by loot stripped from the dead Marchers and, Bas felt unpleasantly certain, the hoplitai themselves. It was nothing like what had been won during the war against Salucia, or on the day of Dycia’s fall, but still, the weapons, jewellery and small money of twenty thousand men were more than enough to gorge the vast flock of scavengers that had been following the Western Army these last six months, to leave the liquor-sellers dry and the whores exhausted. The two days after that were spent burying corpses, taking their own to the communal pyres, dumping the vast heap of Marcher carrion into pits. Bas didn’t do it personally, of course, that was one of the benefits of being Legatus, but you couldn’t very well camp downwind of a charnel house four cables in diameter and think to avoid the stink. His time had been spent dealing with the remnants of the great Marcher confederacy that had been wise enough to stay and accept Bas’s terms, which were stark and non-negotiable.
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