Legacies of light

Interlude 2.11: The pyres of samhain part 5

-Break-

Φ Sitting by a table right next to his almost finished sculpture the man called Bricriu looks with joy at his pyre right across from himself, and smiles.

Then from the sky the beastkin who looks like a bat; Liam drops down, and in that moment Bricriu says, "Liam how is it looking over there?"

"It is going just like normal; all of the pyres have been set and the rest of our people are performing their prayers to ward off the dead."

"What about the humans."

"They have each individually started to walk back, and just as you have requested they are not being guarded."

"That's wonderful."

Sensing that Liam is a bit stiff, Bricriu says, "Liam is something wrong."

With sweat running down, his face Liam asks Bricriu, "Isn't this dangerous, we are simply letting the slaves run free without direction what if they try to escape?"

Confused Bricriu responds, "It's Samhain isn't it?"

"This is my first full year here, so I don't know if I missed something but isn't Samhain just a myth."

Gig