No wonder the morale of the soldiers and also the people was very low.
It was because of this.
Hastios explained that this had happened before, and the first victim was the village chief's daughter, who was killed in cold blood. At midnight, the village chief's wife came upstairs in order to sleep with her daughter.
She had done this whenever she couldn't fall asleep no matter how much she tried.
Insomnia in human terms, and her daughter's scent cured it.
But when she opened the door, she couldn't find her daughter on the bed.
Naturally, she searched for her before a knocking came on her door.
Soon she was told that her daughter was at the square, dead.
Due to the anomaly of her corpse's condition—the people deduced that she was kidnapped and the perpetrator had done this to her. It was sudden because sentries were active within a mile radius of the village.