Hearing Manzanita’s desire to bury the dead, the mounted guard says “The merchants won’t be happy about stopping like that, but I reckon it’s the right thing to do.” Meanwhile Manzanita and Rowyn perform a cursory search. The insides of the farmhouses are ransacked. On the outside there are various farming implements leaning against the houses, and also against some fences. Each farmhouse also has a small shed attached to it. These contain more farming implements, including shovels for both medium and small size persons.
Several volunteers come out from the caravan with their own shovels. Manzanita and Rowyn, joined by Alan, Devan and the volunteers from the caravan, begin to dig. There were two human families (the farms with the horse and the mule), two halfling families, and one gnomish family. It’s back-breaking work. Twenty five unmarked graves are created, just behind the thorp, near a willow tree.