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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8797672" data-attributes="member: 59816">Kahru flew over the steading. The morning was cool and clear and he went unnoticed as an eagle. The dire wolves were returned, gloomily, to the courtyard, where the big bearded hill giant went about training them with a punishing hand - he did not spare the whip. The ogres at each gate were lazy. The only thing that kept them attentive was having nothing else to do (each were too far from the others to talk, and they had nowhere to sit down.)He circled overhead, and when he was out of sight of anyone, he landed on the roof of the main building and hopped over to the edge of the smoke-hole. A fire was burning in the large firepit; smaller than the night before. A grizzled old dire bear slept by the firepit, while a hill giant stoked it lazily. Two other hill giants stood nearby with clubs ready in case of trouble.The chief's table still laid out with food, but not the celebratory feast of yesterday. A sombre negotiation appeared to be underway. Kahru recalled that one young giant had escaped the slaughter of the chief's family (other than the one that they had taken prisoner). She sat in the chief's chair with two large male hill giants on either side.This struck Kahru as unusual because hill giant succession was only nominally familial - the chief's family would eat the most food, and thus become the largest, and the largest hill giant would rule. This youth was not large at all, by giant standards.The table's ends were occupied by two stone giants. A large boulder sat on the floor next to one of them - far too large to be a thrown weapon, even for a stone giant. Kahru could make out a few of the words that they said, but it was some minutia of giant politics that was neither notable nor memorable to him.[spoiler="Great Hall. 4pm(ish)"][ATTACH=full]263779[/ATTACH][/spoiler]</blockquote>

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