Eddicus wonders aloud, "Is it over now? Did we kill them all?" He conveniently leaves out the fact that he personally didn't kill, or even hit, any of them. Finally gathering the fact that the fight is over, he remembers to resheath his dagger, and he goes to retrieve his thrown dart that struck a tree.
Eddicus offers to help Brachnuss attach the ropes to the corpses of the dead horses in the road so the team of oxen can drag the corpses off the road in order to clear a path for the wagon.
"What does the parchment say? Has anyone read it yet? Does it mention whether any recent victims of this gang are dead or alive?"