As the two guards relieving them emerged, they exchanged sinister grins, scooped up two handfuls of snow to put out the warming campfire, and then ducked back into their tent.
Damn it, even the lowly foot soldiers had been bought off! They were trying to freeze him to death!
This was a tiny encampment consisting of about twenty tents, surrounded by a perimeter of supply wagons. There were not even any caltrops or spiked barriers deployed on the outer ring, and the surrounding terrain was flat with no defensible features—a clear sign that nobody intended to stay here long.
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