News of Cassian's survival—walking away unscathed after enduring a brutal barrage from the troll—spread quickly, even reaching the other reinforcement units and the main forces of the Karmen Earldom.
Though he wasn't unscathed, his wounds were already knitting back together at an unnaturally fast pace. To onlookers, he was just a mess of ragged, blood-soaked clothes—damage they assumed came from the troll.
Cassian, however, didn't care for the attention. In fact, he preferred to avoid the spotlight. The more eyes on him, the more trouble it tended to bring. And after coming within a breath of being turned into a pile of broken flesh, he had no desire to stand out.