While Adala and Charlotte spent the evening becoming better acquainted with the desires lurking in their hearts, aided by a bottle of Bors Lothian's best wine, another group of people gathered in the fading light of the day with a few 'liberated' bottles of their own.
Erling Fayle still wore the heavy fur cloak and somber, dark tunic that he'd worn to attend the lighting of pyres at sunset. The event had been attended by most of the lords and ladies currently trapped within the manor, but it wasn't until he stood in the central courtyard, looking at the pyres, that Erling realized how heavy the toll had been the night before.
Baron Preden Saliou held the highest status among those who had fallen, but his pyre was flanked by four knights, including Sir Franc Kermeen, and a massive pyre that held the bodies of more than two dozen Lothian soldiers.
