Story so far
What happened
The bargain requires submission, not occupation. Maltraxis therefore needs the surviving ruler of Valador alive and kneeling. On the road toward Breecaster, the Kingsguard finds rebels attacking a merchant convoy. Rish Rash opens with fire. Lucien freezes fighters in place. Alaryn fires from range. Hamdik leaps between wagons with pistols blazing.
Then Lucien turns Stormurinn into a towering Tyrannosaurus Rex. He devours enemies whole and scatters the rest. Afterward, Rish Rash discovers a boy named Jeremy beside his dead mother, a shattered bone driven through his abdomen. He draws a salt circle and teleports away. Alaryn and Lucien keep the child alive.