Chapter 2: Finally!
"Those morons! Why would anyone in the world do this?!" A woman's voice, full of sadness, woke Lee up.
He had no clue how long he was unconscious, but he was still lying in the grass, under his mother's body. Somehow he hadn't suffocated and or bled to death, at least not yet. But to his great annoyance, on top of the piercing pain in his shoulder, an overwhelming thirst eclipsed the rest of the current suffering.
"They were drunk ..." A man was trying to calm the woman down, but his words only made her angrier.
"So?!" She hissed in return.
Neither she nor the man said anything for a while and Lee could only hear sighs and curses, but it was clear they came from the couple and not the villagers. He did recognize them though. These were the two who stayed behind in the village after the soldiers brought more booze. From what Lee gathered, the two elders were some kind of doctors, and all the youths, except for the haughty albino, treated them with respect.
It seemed that the two had either been put in charge or volunteered to clean the place up, and were currently gathering the bodies of the villagers. But while the man loudly pondered whether they had enough wood for the funeral pyre, the woman continuously cursed the murderers.
The man pointed out that someone might overhear, but clearly, she couldn't care less. Lee's guess was that the earlier genocide was too terrifying, or maybe her exquisite language was the result of her being a daughter of a shoemaker or a sailor.
"Fuck me! It's alive!" The woman suddenly exclaimed.
As expected, at some point, they got to Lee's mother, and he could finally take a deep breath – one that was accompanied by a squeak of agony. The swift action of removing the body lying on top of Lee tore out the arrowhead that impaled his shoulder, causing it to bleed profusely.
The pain was so unbearable that he didn't even notice the sky was almost dark. Turns out he had been lying there the whole day, and while the woman, besides being shocked, sounded pleasantly surprised, the man helplessly cursed under his nose.
"Tess ..." He made another attempt to say something in order to calm her down, but only got barked at.