[color=A0A0A0][h2]Fleuri Jodeau[/h2][/color]

With the skirmish concluded and all of the bandits captured or killed, Fleuri turned to the corpses to carry out the captain's orders to "ease the suffering of the dying."  In other words, they needed to deliver a coup de grace to any bandits too wounded to save.  Fleuri looked about at the others.  Some knights were going about it differently than others.  Sir Gerard Segremors, a former mercenary from the same band as Lucas, was simply stabbing every corpse to make sure it was dead, and Lucas was following his lead.  It was a rather crude method, but also quite thorough.  Perhaps stabbing at every fallen bandit without looking closely at the faces of the fallen made the grim task easier to bear, the knight speculated.

Fleuri surveyed the bodies of the bandits that he had felled in the battle.  Neither of them stood any risk of getting back up- one was decapitated, the other had been stabbed in the heart.  Fleuri hadn't killed many people, but he understood the importance of ensuring that a killing blow did its job the first time.  Compared to the undead that he had fought as a squire, living humans were downright fragile, even.  This went both ways- he too was a mere mortal man, and could die just as quickly as these bandits.

This wasn't the first time he had gazed upon the aftermath of a battle.  Long ago, he and his mentor had visited the immediate aftermath of some battles and skirmishes of the the War of the Red Flag.  Compared to that, this particular scene was a far less grisly sight since the dead hadn't had any time to decay or be picked apart by scavengers.  Still, it'd be wise for this mess to be cleaned up after this mission was over and the captives were rescued.  This road needed to be safe, and unattended corpses could not only attract beasts, but also potentially accustom them to consuming human flesh.

With the bodies in his part of the woods taken care of, Fleuri opted to check on the other knights.  Several of them were already questioning wounded bandits.  Fleuri made his way to where Sir Gerard Segremors was currently questioning one of the brigands.  Comapred to some of the others, he appeared to be taking a more heavy-handed approach to interrogation.  Fleuri said nothing, simply silently watching.  Interrogation was not a skill that he had learned in his career, so it might be worth observing what sort of questioning skills that the young mercenary-turned-knight could demonstrate.  Given the great difference in their backgrounds, he suspected that there were quite a few things that he could learn from former mercenaries like Gerard.

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