Kine knelt on one knee in the mud and leaves of the forest floor. She didnt pay much mind to the slight stiffness in her limbs, used to this kind of physical hardship. Instead her mind was fully projected and held by the road in front of her and the men around her. She head their breathing, some nervous, others excited and very few of them actually calm and concentrated like they should be. Through the week Kine had gradually been getting more and more angry and repulsed by the horrendous management and training the mercenary band recieved. In all honesty it was the worst leadership she had ever encountered and it caused an itch under her skin to let it continue on as it was. But there was still that clinging fear, that shiver down her spine and sickness in her stomach that the thought or authority gave her. So she let it go and just dragged herself through, hoping what she had seen was simply the worst of it and it would get better in time.
One of the few soldiers under her command who seemed to know what she was doing was Kyara. Kine had only recently properly been introduced but in that short time the Sorceress had shown more propensity for power and control than any of the much older and more experienced men. Well at least there was one reliable person under her command. However for now the ambush seemed to be going off without too much trouble, possibly to do with the men responding to having a real captain for once.So they sat and awaited the first part of their plan to come into play.
Her muscles tensed when she heard the sound of horses, her hand coming up in a fist quickly to silence and still any movement from her inexperienced and over-excited crew. There was a brief shuffle of sound and then a sudden stillness. They all seemed to have gained a healthy respect for Kine's fury and held her commands in high regard. However at this point Kyara was also one who helped still the men and Kine noticed this with a happy smile, peeking around her tree to watch as the sorceress unleashed her hell on the guards just as the trees fell and blocked any escape. It brought a very gleefully sadistic smile to her face as the lightning cracked around them and men and horses were felled by her power. However just as she was about to charge in the sickly smell of burnt flesh hit her nostrils and a shiver went up her spine. It wiped the smile of her face and made her hands tremble on her axe hilt as she endeavoured to repress the flood of memories coming to the surface. She managed it with a gutteral roar like a lion breaking from chains and she charged out from the trees with thirty men at her heels.
The disheveled line of men crashed into the remains of the guard and quickly brought down their horses, Kine personally decapitating two of them before eventually there was but one left. She surged forward, ready to gut him and satisfy her sudden need to cause physical harm. However a large bulbous shadow fell over her and her path was cut off by Rafford's rotund form. She almost cut him down too, but she restrained herself to cast a furious glare at his smug face.
"Lets let this one live! Haha! He can tell of our great victory and make the RED IRONS men to be feared!"
Before he had stopped speaking the man had already scurried away and was gone from sight. Kine temperature rose to alarming levels as she stood, incapable of comprehending the sheer stupidity and mindless masculine idiocy that she had just witnessed. This was and ILLEGAL attack! This wasnt war it was BANDITRY and pretty simple banditry at that. Was he really going to spread the word that his band had just killed and stolen from a duke of the land? Apparently he was. Before Kine could act on her immediate instinct to carve open his belly and read his entrails to see if they held any clue to the unbelievable nature of his stupidity he had already strode off with a gaggle of boisterously cheering men who hadn't done a thing in the actual attack.
Kine released a feral kind of growl and stomped off into the trees, her grip on her axe making her fists tremble. She found a suitable clearing and let rip, hacking at the trees around her and very quickly creating a small clearing in the dense woodland, taking as much of her frustration out on the undeserving trees as possible.