The Unfated Wanderers Canto 6
As early night galloped across Icebrunt, Billet Stormstone and Vilerend Skymarch leapt from the wagon and ran to Tong’s hall. They spoke of their homes to be built but Tong cared little, for the news of another mysterious giant intrigued him more. The ruler of the Shatterbone horde then tasked his raiders with urgent misdeeds. They listened carefully, ate dinner and rested for the morrow.
They arrived in Coastend village an hour past dawn with another of Tong’s people. She posed as a merchant and they were her guards. They met for a meeting to make a deal for furs to be delivered next month. The deal was real. But while they negotiated, Vilerend and Billet wandered to a nearby storehouse to enact the plan.
Tong’s traitorous turncoat, a Coastend man in need of money, organized this raid, a whiskey warehouse scouted, a wagon waiting near. The Wanderers raided the place, loading the wagon with whiskey barrels to travel to Shatterbone.
The merchants completed their deal and the three raiders relieved Coastend of their famous whiskey, not enough to be noticed soon, but enough to tickle Tong’s taste and warm his hall.
Shatterbone shone and sang that night as the spoils were stored away, but some shared with all.