In another hour, the furniture and valuables are fully stacked, and the wagons are loaded. It's approaching the late morning, but the mage explains that it should only be about three hours to get back to their village. Most of the women, who aren't driving the carts, are walking as well. If he takes a closer look at the women, now that he's had a chance to get closer to them, again, he'll notice that a number of the bruises the women had the night before have faded or vanished entirely.<br/><br/>Three hours later, and they'll spot the village, through a stand of trees. It's still intact, not burned to the ground, and, at least from the outside, it looks quite normal, for a medieval village, mostly constructed out of mortared stone and wood, if rather empty, at the moment. There are a handful of bodies, mostly near the various houses, that look like they were cut down with swords; most are men or boys in their nightclothes, some armed with little more than kitchen knives. Behind him, he can hear several of the women begin weeping.