With the attack on the camp, the next few days passed in tense silence for most of the soldiers while Jareb and Henry trained under Bael.
Bael no longer drilled them with the same strictness he had once used on his own squad. Instead, he focused on skill and technique rather than raw strength and speed — something he himself had known little about back then.
Their days passed in patrols and training, and on the third day after the attack, the commander returned to the camp, and with him came a message which caused a shiver to run down the soldiers' spines.
The duke's forces had been seen at the edge of the battlefield.
Even though all of them had joined with the knowledge of possible death, none of them could deny that they had hoped the war would never happen, but there was no way for it not to happen because the duke wanted the throne at all costs.
