The Age Of Arma Gedeon

Chapter 5, Barade

Barade jumps pigs and hurries for the bull. He jumps a little fence for a clear path, running through the vegtable garden.

When he sees the fight, he draws his sword and takes a spark-match torch from this trench coat. The widths are the same in his hands. He strikes them together to light his short torch.

The double light tells him, Lauriah is no more that two strides behind. He gives no thought to it and leaps in to aid the bull.

He takes a werewolf head and knocks one from the bull with his torch. The sounds of the werewolves fade from his awareness with the sounds of the bull.

Lauriah takes two heads as the bull serves them to him on his tucks.

A foolish werewolf bites Barade's trench coat and stops to spit out his teeth, amused Barade kicks him, "Run, little doggy."
He does as the bull throws another after him.

A tall wolf, rises up and half shifts to man, "Retreat, you fools! It's Barade."
He starts to shift, but Erray puts a bullet in his heart from the far side of the garden.

That convinces the rest and they run as Barade takes the wereman's head.

Erray runs to them and looks his bull over, "Nice work, Old Chap. How's your hide?"

Lauriah laughs and smacks the bull's ass, "Hard as stone. He's one hell of a fighter. Where'd you get him?"

Erray pats the bull, "I'll clean up. Could you have your cows round up the pigs?"

The bull lumbers off as Erray tells them, "He thinks it's his farm and I work for him. He was here with us when the purple fog cleared.

"I need to get this fence up and burn. Care to lend your hands?"

Barade hands his sword to Lauriah, "Let her know we're all unhurt. Clean the swords and get the pit going. No signal."

Lauriah hurries off as Erray begins righting his fence. "I've a wheel barrel just inside my barn."

Barade pulls the fence line wire with one hand, righting that half of the down fence. He lights Erray's work as he loops the wire on the stake, Erray has just drove into a fresh spot. "I'm very sure, I'm not allowed in your barn."

Erray is impressed, but hides it well as he secures the line wire. "I just don't like strangers in my barn."

Barade goes around him to pull the other side up for him. "I know you didn't like me in your barn."

Erray secures the wire, "You pretty much are a stranger. Sure, you're fun and say wise things, but I don't know anything about you."

Barade gets two large rocks with his free hand, "You know I'm an officer, a knight and I live at the castle. That's not nothing."

Erray accepts a rock, "I know that of Lauriah, too. Plus, he loves pork steak, writes poetry, has a brother, can hear the wind, has been bite by a wererat twice, hates pineapple and wants to retire to the country someday.

"That's just off the top of my head. I know I know more." He turns back to the fence to hammer stakes.

Barade looks at the rock in his hand and mutters, "I didn't even know he wants to retire in the country."

He moves to hammer stakes, "Well, I can hear the wind, I like pork, but prefer beef. I have siblings. I've wrote some poetry, but I'm better at limericks and textbooks. Might just be more practice. I bit the wererats that bit him, that story is weirder than that sounds. I love pineapples and enjoy offering it to him. I detest cow and goat's milk, but I don't think I hate any food."