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In front of the soldiers travelled a white gilded carriage on angled wheels drawn by large black horses of burden layered in gaudy mantles of white with golden filigree. The driver held the reins of the drawn carriage but looked very near sleep as he swayed back and forth in the leather seat. Soldiers on horses traveled to either side of the carriage but the horses were undecorated and very much not horses of burden; the beasts looked impatient and ill-tempered.
As the small army verged upon the village green the carriage and entourage rolled to a stop and the foot soldiers came to a halt behind it. Lou the Louse elbowed and shouldered his way through the outer ring of towns men to stand before the gathered soldiers as the unofficial village mayor. Lou was a jealous, abusive and tyrannical husband and father but also possessive and standing before the gathered army it was unsaid but officially stated that he would die before he gave up his village.
But even in the moment of his saving grace, Lou sneered when he noticed Harm standing at his right arm with scythe in hand.