Before the Storm: Act 9, Chapter 9
Chapter 9
“If someone purposely set a building in your village on fire, what would you do?”
“I’d put an arrow in the asshole who did it,” Reed replied. “Three arrows, just in case the first didn’t kill ‘em.”
Liam sighed.
“Wrong answer?” Reed asked.
“No,” Liam answered. “Just wondering why the people of the city don’t do the same.”
“‘Cause they’d be slaughtered if they did,” the woodsman said. “A regiment of armsmen and four Mercenary companies would wipe ‘em out in no time.”
He was pretty sure that wasn’t the case. As far as his reconnaissance could make out, there were about five hundred Blumrush armsmen and fifteen hundred Mercenaries in the Re-Blumrushur. That was sufficient to keep an eye on things and put down small uprisings, but, if the city’s thirty-five thousand residents simultaneously rebelled, they could easily drive House Blumrush’s forces into the castle.
“If the entire city revolts,” Liam said, “Lord Reginald would lose control in less than a day. Some of the Knights and Mercenaries are pretty strong, but they’d still be overwhelmed by the sheer number of citizens.”