STEEL AND FLESH

THE CALL FOR CALM

The sound of thundering hooves were heard from afar as the Bauthinian military on horses, with sheathed swords, rode into the city center.

The citizens of Bauthinia specifically in Laoia, had been left in a state of shock and uncertainty after the hostility that ensued between the rebellious faction, and the Bauthinian military.

They feared that great chaos was nigh, and the thought of a possible civil war began to register in their minds.

However, some of the Laoian population began to question king Lauihnio's leadership, even looking at him at a tyrant, due to the ugly and bloody scenerios they had witnessed which included the killing, maiming and torture of members of the rebellious faction, especially those that refused to lay down their arms in surrender to the king's authority.

However the dominant and friendly presence of the military soon gave them hope for security and stability, because they had earlier harboured fears that the brutality that was brought upon the rebels wo