You would think that murdering an entire continent of people would be hard work. And you'd be right! I didn't get to participate in the puring other than hearing it from a far (thanks whatever gods for small favors) but from the screams and shouts from the brothers it was a lot harder than having people line up to be put to the sword.
For his part Dezryan sat back on his horse listening (because he's blind did I mention that?), I don't know if he normally participated or just added his moral support to their entirely immoral actions. And yes I judge them immoral which tells you how bad they have to have been. I mean if you are killing everyone you are "saving" where do you stop? Why not kill everyone in the world before they wrong you or wrong themselves? I tried to make these arguments to Dezryan while we were traveling between massacres, but that just lead to him encouraging his horse to to faster (because nothing says "I'm listening" than why don't you suffer some more?).
These purges continued into many nights, always afterwards the brothers would gather around a campfire and eat heartily and boast about the work they'd done to "heal" the land. I for my part was kept tied to Dezryan's horse, under guard from whoever had drawn the short straw that day. They fed me their scraps, so there was that, because letting a person die of hunger after murdering an entire town that day would be cruel and unusual.
And so it went for an entire week. I was actually surprised that we hadn't run across any real evil (well you know aside from the callous dicks I was saddled with). When we came across a walled in town that was very quiet... And thats where I'll pick up with the next entry!
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