Willem's Stand Part 5
The captain's decision to leap into training so quickly and so aggressively perhaps was not the wisest course of action. He should have given the men time to grieve. He had no sooner heard the news of Alzan's death than he had as marching south for some pointless training excercise. The Captain treats us as recruits, thinking that pushing us hard will somehow make us forget everything else. He does not know the Red Blades nearly as well as he thinks. We are deeply saddened by Alzan's death but we are still able to cope and to function normally, we are not children. Willem has been acting odd lately, as if he has something else on his mind. More then once, I have smelt what I beleive to be spirits on this breathe. He often seems distracted and out of sorts. I hope he realizes he is becoming a problem and rememdies whatever is bothering him soon. Many of the others are not as forgiving as I.
Fortunetly, for the time being we appear to be rooted in Targonor. Captain Willem made the decision to us here based off his interaction with the vulmane daring out last little camping trip. There is no doubt something had the wolf men bothered but I did not think nearly as much of it as captain did, that is until today.
An exhausted vulmane was spotted by a tower guard approaching the city in the early hours of the morning. I have never seen one of the wolf men this far north. He was tired and haggard looking, ever for a vulmane. I was not patrol at the time so I did not have the chance to get very close to it, but from what the other soldiers tell me it was rambling something about enraged spirits and retribution.
I do not know the intent of the vulmane's tick to Targonor. These are rumours aplenty of course, some say it came to request military aid, something no vulmane has ever done before. Others say it merely brought warning of coming danger, also something no vulmane has ever done before. I don't know much of the wolf men but I do know that the vulmane are a people goverened by custom and change is not something they welcome with open arms. For the decision to be made to send emaissary, they must truly beleive something extraordinary is happening, this fact alone worries me more than anything.
Edones Taggast
Red Blade Unit
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