On riding back to the castle Gabriel could see the castle's gates had been blown apart, and the courtyard was a mess. Something had gone to town and scattered several soldiers. At least eight soldiers lay dead on the ground, badly bludgeoned and partially crushed. The gates to the castle were broken open, and following the trail there was a smoking blast area in the courtroom carpetting and the curtains at the sides were holed with small ash-edged holes.<br/><br/>The throne was shortened, the backrest cut in half, and 2 Protectors lay in the room's floor, both dead with what looked like one stab each,<em>right through the armor</em>and through the heart. Only one small, narrow hole in the metal.<br/><br/>There was no sign of the king, but as Gabriel arrived there was fighting sounds from upstairs, the direction that king's bedroom lay at.<br/><br/>A bit aside there was a large ogre's body, the cuts and stabs in its body numerous, its eyes cut apart, but what seems to have killed it is a<em>lance</em>driven right through it, nailing it to a wall. Little away, there's a dead horse indoors, and the name 'Malek' on the saddle.