Soon everyone had gone off for the night, Aldred himself into one of the inn's rooms for rent where he managed to fall asleep after tossing and turning in his bed for what seemed like hours. Then the sun rose in the wintery town, basking the snowed ground in the shining rays. The corpses of the dead beasts which assaulted the town before still remain, frozen from sitting overnight in the brutal conditions.

Everyone in the group eventually woke up, meeting once again in the tavern which was under repairs currently as several men had came from the surrounding area, more were outside looking over the giant's bodies, none of them believing their eyes. A battalion of well trained guards also was now in the settlement after the citizens of town implored the Dominion to send some spare guards, which they did, the guards themselves not too happy being stuck in the freezing cold.
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"They weren't kidding!" One of the repairmen yelled to another as the man stood on the roof, placing a wood beam down.

"Yeah, did you see those big bastards? Those are the stuff of fairy tales." The other replied, hammering a nail into a piece of wood.

"How can you not see them?" 

The conversation carried on as the people below, inside the inn milled around, Aldred sitting at a table, a empty plate in front of the armored man who looked over the rest of the group around the room as they prepared to leave the town and head into the harsh mountains to find the source of the giants. 

"Maybe the attack is connected to something," He said to no one in particular, his mind going over the possiblities. It couldn't be just a coincidence, but he really did not know at all. "I guess we'll find out soon enough. Get ready to move out in ten, the mountains are a brutal place to travel through, I've been through them before, during the war, it's imperative to know what we're doing." He said to the group as he sat in his seat, waiting.