They soon saw the border post, tall wooden stakes buried in the snow, the watch tower slanted to one side. The air smelled weird and wrong like death.

Blood had frozen on the ground and each step they took it cracked. He stopped and looked around, torn armor ,broken arrows,claw marks deep in the ice. The place showed that there had clearly been a fight

Bodies lay on the floor where they had fallen covered in snow, some being lifted by other soldiers who bowed their heads as they saw Kieran ...