The metallic scent of blood enveloped the air while the grassland cries from the weight of the unburied corpses of more than fifty bandit men that attacked them in broad daylight and also of the soldiers that used that opportunity to attack the queen.
"What do we do with the corpses my Queen?"
"Burn them and let the wind take their Ash to wander!* It's a dishonourable funeral Serene read about in the castle library as the ash is left to be taken to wander by the wind instead of burying the bodies to rest like their ancestors in the ground.
The past two days had earlier went on normal with the group trotting in search of Rukhdaf's remaining people but came up empty untill their group encountered this notorious bandit that refused to yield especially when they realize the new Queen is among them.