There was a visible ripple thought the women as Lairee mentioned the dead child. Quite a few of the women started forward asking questions about size and hair colour. Marina banged her stick on the ground and they returned to their huts. The way in which they did so gave somewhat of a lie to her previous words of being no one of importance.<br/><br/>She regarded Lairee, “They came as the sun rose, the Reptilians along with tall dog faced humanoids and a man carrying a staff. Our men are simple fisher folk not warriors there was little resistance. All the men and boys where led off and the fence was built and the Reptilians where left to guard us.”<br/><br/>She paused and then pulled out a small flask and took a swig.  “We where told that if we did anything our men folk would suffer and we can only presume they where told the same. It was a surprise that the Reptilians where with them as we have always got on with them. But we later found out that they too where press ganged.”<br/><br/>Marina gestured with her hand towards the fire, “The man and his men came to their marsh and demanded workers, the chief and his warriors refused, told them to leave. Then the man gestured and the chief and his warriors where engulfed with flame. Any that survived where cut down by the dog faced ones. Then the females where herded off and the remaining men where taken up the mountain and put to work.”<br/><br/>She gestured to the mountains that rose behind the village “But it is too dry for them up there, they sicken and die quickly. So the man came here and took our men and the Reptilians where made into guards. From what the guards have said our men are being made to excavate a tunnel into the mountain that had had its entrance collapsed. What for they did not know.”<br/><br/>Finishing her speech she half smiled at Lairee, “So now you know.” She paused and then continued in a softer tone. “If you can describe the boy?”<br/>