- Boredom. No one comes for the artifact anymore. All the silver you managed to stash at the mine, we've retrieved it and shipped it home. And the mines. We're just waiting for you. Feeding on boars.
- Speaking of eating! I'd like to be fed!
- We'll organize it! - promised the voivode and shouted towards the camp, - Rinat! Fetch the water-bulk!
- How are things at home? - The knight caught the jug thrown to him and opened it.
- Everything's fine at the castle. But keep in mind that all the women have been taken away as personal maids!
- What? Alexander choked on blood.
- Everyone thought you bought the maids. So... There are maids in every house now!
- Why?
- You're asking a man who lives in the forest and guards you? - Leonid smiled broadly, - I wouldn't mind having a maid. Shit in my house is decent. I'm too lazy to clean up.
Alexander didn't start teasing and suggesting other options of how to use convicts, but calmly finished the blood brought to him, accepting the news simply as a fact. Since the other triumvirs made such a decision, it was necessary.
- Any more news?
- Not from the village! But in Savoyardi ...
- What about it?
- Well, the baron has problems with his part of the convicts, - the voivode chuckled, - And by the way, keep in mind that the baron offers to buy them all from the treasury at his own expense and give them to you. Gennady is in favor of this proposal.
Alexander chuckled.
- I'm sure he is. What are Savoyardi's problems?
- Worldly! - Leonid chuckled again and asked a counter question, - What will happen if young girls will be guarded by young guys?
- Oh, in that sense! And I was already thinking...
- Well, forget what you thought. They all fucked on the first day. And continue to fuck vigorously thereafter. And if at first the vigilantes just put the available women in the rack in an orderly manner, now they don't mind at all!
- The baron is in trouble, - Alexander did not even think to make a face more appropriate to his phrase and smiled contentedly, - Alright, prepare everything for the night outing. I'm going to go to sleep.
That was the end of the visit and the knight whistling a merry tune went back to the mercenary camp.
Toward midnight, two shadows slid along the fortress wall and froze. They had not taken the artifact with them on this outing, and they had refused to wear any armor of any kind. Without chain mail, both men felt uncomfortable, a year ago such an absolutely foreign thing, by this time had already become a second skin and sometimes even went swimming in it.
And here is only the usual warm clothes of a city dweller. True, the weapon slightly spoiled the whole image. But Alexander's poleaxe and Leonid's axe were safely hidden from prying eyes.
Now the vampires had to penetrate the fortress. Tomorrow they would do it through the secret passage, the same one that had served as a way out of the fortress for numerous artifact hunters. But today they had to get inside the fortress by another way. The problem was caused by the numerous sentries on the walls, as well as by the activated security spells that were supposed to protect the city from such unwanted guests.
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