-Break-

  The men picked up all of their scattered and smushed food and ate it even in that state, even the ones who weren’t previously eating started to eat as well.

  Little by little as they ate the food, their worries, and tension vanished as they were raptured by food they would have never eaten in their lives. It was a sight that many would call pathetic, the beastkin around them even snickered at the view.

  But to these men, it was the best thing they had eaten in a long time, so they couldn’t help but smile as they ate with all of their hearts.

  And once all the food had been finished Bricriu stood up and says, “Now what a wonderful meal that was but we should start getting to the main topic of the day.”

  A beastkin screams, “EVERYOAND UP RIGHT NOW!”

  Remembering the beating they have all just taken not a single one of them wastes a sed and immediately plies with the order.

  Bricriu then says, “We will be going on a rather long walk, to my favourite pce here. But I have a few surprises to prepare so I will be taking a carriage ahead, so don’t walk too fast.”

  With that Bricriu leaves and moments ter we are all escorted out of the building.

  When we leave and go outside I am greeted with the sight of bd blue wonderbeasts. They have bodies sort of simir to animals I have found in the o, yet they have fur and fs. The two in the front are covered in fur and might like the legs of a lion but have two fin-like bdes protruding from them, while the back two are als and look simir to a goat’s.

  You tell by the way they look at us and the way they are restraihat these wonderbeasts are excellent hunters. They have probably set these wonderbeasts as a deterrent for arying to start anything.

  This really is a weird situation, but the path we are following will lead me towards the eastern part of the pntation so I will finally get a good look around

  -Break-

  3 hours ter

  As all the men with sweet trickly down their faces are brought towards a hill, a beastkin shouts to them, “Line up on top of the hill now!”

  Whilst I walk with sweat trig down my face, I say, “This is fug stupid, I swear when I get out of here I am going to ki-.”

  The young boy stopped talking as he reached the top of the hill, but that wasn’t strange because all of the men who had withe se in front of them would have had simir reas.

  A very short distance away from the top of the hill were red pilrs, with some discolouration throughout them. Each pilr had a unique shape, and if one was to look at them from a distahey would even admire them.

  But due to all the men being oop of the hill they were able to see what the pilrs were made from; humans.

  Their skin, their flesh, and their bones, were all amalgamated into these pilrs and throughout the pilrs you could still make out some faces; old ones, and young ones.

  When faced with this sight, some cried, some stood there in shock, some voided their stomachs, some fell to the ground, some felt rage, and some just ughed uo process the sight in front of them.

  But the two boys simply stood there. The older of the two shook slightly as the idea of what he was seeing started to bare weight, and in a desperate attempt to firm whether this was reality he looked to his left where he saw his roommate.

  “Hey is what I am seeing real?”

  With the same tasteless tone he always uses he says, “Yes.”

  “Ok then,” he says turning his face back towards the sight in front of him.

  If this is reality then why wasn’t my roommate reag at all!?

  Unknown to everybody at the time the only one who didn’t have aion to the sight in front of them was the younger of the two boys. He didn’t gh any physiental ges from looking at the sight in front of him, it was no different than anything else he had seen today.

  Still, despite not behaving just like everyone else, he and everyone uood the same thing whether through logic or instinct that if they move that might bee us. That’s why through all of their reas not one of them ran away.

  Bricriu seeing the two boys on the hill says, “Life really is amazing.” Then walking forward toward the first of the pilrs he says, “The people you see here were one of tless tribes of people who used to live on this nd, this tribe in particur wiped out many other tribes and soaked the ground in blood.”

  Bricriu is a far distance away from all of the men, but his voice is so powerful, that ead every one of the humans hear it perfectly as if he is whispering directly into their ears.

  Walking over from pilr to pilr, Bricriu says, “This pilr is made from a few nomadidits who decided they wao take a piece of our nd, and this one is made from a small vilge of people who used to live at the base of River Lúide.”

  Stopping in front of a pilr, he says, “Now this one is one of my favourites, this is made by a group of men who oried to start a rebellion on this very nd. We took our time to make this to orate their bravery.”

  Turning to face the men, Bricriu says, “Do you know what every single one of these people has in on? It is very simple, they tried to oppose us, so we crushed them.

  But still many refuse to uand this simple fact such as these fools.”

  Pointing his left hand to his side, we see the beastkin lead a bunch of humans with bags over their heads in front of Bricriu. Each of them are pced on their knees and all have their hand a bound.

  Then after Bricriu makes anesture, the beastkin takes the covers off the face of the humans, with Bricriu taking off one c by himself.

  Throughout the hill where all the men stand, almost all of the newly brought-in men have faces of shod horror, as ead every single one of them reizes one of the faces.

  Including the older of the two boys, who mutters, “Father.”

  Immediately that boy tries to move his body, but at the same moment wheries to move forward, the other boy puts his foot into the foot of the older boy and uses his hand to grab his arm.

  He struggles to break out of his roommate’s grip, so he says, “LET GO OFF ME.”

  “No.”

  Feeling his grip tighten, I say, “Let go, let go, let go!”

  “No, because if I do, you’ll die.”

  Seeing the sight of the two boys struggling on the hill, Bricriu smiles and then says, “These brave yet foolish men before you, were all taken from my ret quests into the underworld Terrafide. Some were from vilges ruled by women, some were from warrior s, whilst some lived in mounts. But none of that matters to any of you because to all of you whhese people as brothers, sons, uncles, and even fathers.

  Many of them were captured by me as I hunted down the runaways, but some of them were captured while trying to sneak into our nd,” after saying that st sentence Bricriu hit my father across the head.

  “And even though these boys you see in front of me tried to escape our reach, they were still caught in the end, because that is the fate of you humans. Because ead every one of you are no different than cattle, and the very fact that you even uand our words is the ing achievement of your race.”

  “Still knowing this these people fervently tried to defy us and will pay for their sins.”

  All the beastkin beside the captives pce their hands on the head of the captive they unmasked, and as that happens the captives begin to shake with fright as bloodlust so tangible you could drink it fills the air around them.

  Seeing this most men looking on from above feel terror in their souls as they have already anticipated what is about to happen. But others uo waty loart to run down the hill towards their loved ones.

  Some scream, “FATHER!”

  Some, “BROTHER!”

  Some even shout names, “THOMAS.”

  But in the end, they all might have the same fate, because moments after they run down the hill their heads are ripped from their bodies by beastkin, leaving only mutited bodies rolling down the hill.

  Many who see this sight feel their feet freeze to the ground, but the older of the two boys still tries to move screaming, “FATHER!”

  But the hold of the younger of the two holds him down with an inhuman grip, not allowing him to move an inch.

  Bricriu making anesture, says, “May Danu five you.”

  The rest of the beastkin say the same, “May Danu five you.”

  At that moment all the beastkihe necks of all of the humans they are holding, with the only other sound in that moment being the g of the older of the two boys.

  Letting out another smile, Bricriu says, “Open your souls and engrave these words into them, you are sves. Every single one of you is a sve, so from this moment till the death of your world, you will all be sves. That is the only fate where you live. Now I want ead every one of you to turn around and look into the distance.”

  Following his instrus ead every one does this, with the younger of the two helping the colpsed older move.

  Holding his hands up, he says, “But if you tio be good sves you will get to see that sery over there whenever you wish, but if you disobey the hell you see in front of you will be a fate that you will succumb to. Now just like the obedient objects you are follow these instrus; go home.”

  Ead every one of the men walks home with their heads swinging down low as if they had just beeen in a war, there is only one exception to this the younger of the two boys.

  They walk a long path home, with their souls so broken that not ohinks about running away. Some people's feet stop walking and just lie and the road back, but those same men are killed moments ter.

  As this goes on Bricriu stands oop of the hill saying, “You humans are truly a delicacy of the highest order. Now it is time to make my new sculpture.”

  -Break-

  After an arduous walk back to the campsite, the two young boys are greeted by anht. Bodies are hanging off the edge of the walls around the campsite, but the older of the two bnizes one body in particur and runs towards it.

  Looking up he says, “Vul, no it ’t be, it ’t!”

  Behind me I hear, a voice say, “But it is.”

  Turning around, I see a bat Beastkin; the one from my first day here.

  Getting close to my ear, he whispers, “You should be careful about what you say since we beastkin have rather amazing hearing. Because if you don’t more cattle might die because of your as.”

  Hearing this I fall to the ground, and simply just cry, I cry my heart out.