Chapter 633 – Masked Clues
Morning came with pale winter light and a smell of smoke that clung to everything.
After a night raid, sunrise was not romantic. It was not beautiful. It was inspection time. It was counting time. It was the moment people looked at what had tried to steal their lives and confirmed stubbornly that it failed.
Outside the west wall, the village males dragged the bodies in with long ropes. They didn't touch the corpses with their bare hands unless they had to. Even in the Beast World, people didn't enjoy touching dead strangers, especially dead strangers who came wearing masks like cowards.
The bodies were laid out in a line on the outer yard ground, far enough from the main pathways so the children wouldn't see. A few curious kids still tried to peek from behind corners, only to be shooed away by their mothers with sharp scolding.
