In the days after we discovered the survivors, Garrett went with Merin to the to the place where the survivors were staying. He came back and made order to move the camp up to the fortress. He left 6 men to keep watch at the gate and ordered the gates barred for now. We moved the camp up to the fort. The fort was a strong area that served as the administrative heart of the town. It had its own wall and gate and was protected with powerful wards The fort stood at the heart of the town. It rose three stories tall and had two tall towers. Within the fort there was a guard barracks and command post, a great hall and several rooms and apartments for the running of the town and the lord's pleasures. The supplies in the fort were ample and with our own supplies added we had enough for several days if not several weeks. Garrett found the command post for the towns guard. He took it over and began to set up the command post for himself. The Soldiers took over the guard barracks and they ask took among them the villagers who served as guards. Garrett had a guard post set up at the main gate and would have soldiers there during the day and would have them retreat to the fort at night. The horses were moved up to the fort to ensure their safety and space was made to house them. The villagers stayed within the great hall a place that could be barricaded and easily defended. The others found rooms that they could set to their uses. I found an apartment near the tower from which I could out over the main gate and the forest. It was shortly after I set up in the apartment that Jay, Rowan, and Sky came in. They said that they wished to stay in apartment with to. Before they had been in the great hall with Merin and the other survivors. “Grandfather said we could come and stay with you if we wanted and we do,” said Jay. They chose rooms in the apartment, and we all settled in for the night. We talked into the night; I discovered Jay was also a hybrid of a sort. He had used his power to hide the signs of fact that he was part fey. When I could see through the glamour it saw the shifting color of his eyes and the etheric beauty of his face. I also saw a strange amulet he wore shaped like Tri force symbol with colored stones in the center of the triangles. I told them some about me how I was Nephilim and some about my travels. How I saved a young fay from slavery and how I help a village of elves. After a while the others went to their rooms, and I stayed up thinking of on what I had learned.

  The next day Garrett called the company together and laid out his plan. There were in the valley 4 homestead that were kept by families that farmed and kept animals and other things. He tasked me, Jax, Kage, and Asher to lead teams. The teams consisted of 3 soldiers and a ranger. With Kage leading a team of 4 soldiers. The teams will go out and explore the 4 homesteads and determine if anyone was still alive.

  We set out that day. I led my group out from town, and we traveled north for about an hour and then we came in sight of the homestead. I told the others to be vigilant, and we entered the homestead. The homestead was a small walled villa there was a central courtyard with a few outbuildings. We could see the evident the abominations had been their smashed structures and bloodstains. We moved through the villa as we looked for anyone. I was walked out towards one of the outbuildings when I saw an abomination. The abomination was in the form of a wolf creature. It was sniffing around the outbuilding that I was moving toward. It did not see me, so I took out my bow and was able to get a shot off and it went down before it was even aware of me. I called out to my team and told them we were going back to the town. There was no one alive in the homestead. We had to get out before anymore abominations showed up. We made it back to town with no other appearance of the abominations. We arrived back at the town at about the same time as Jax and his group. Jax told me they saw no abominations at their site. Jax went up to the fort and I stayed near the gate and stood on watch with the soldiers at the gates. Jay came down from the fort and stood at the gate with me as we waited for the other groups. Soon Garrett, Jax, and Ignis also came down from the fort and joined us at the watch waiting for Kage and Ashers group. It was then that we saw both the groups come into view and then behind them we saw a group of abominations appear behind them. We watched in horror as the abominations chase the groups. Two of the horses staggered when they hit uneven ground and before they could get back, they were overwhelmed by abominations. The abominations dragged the horses and the soldiers down and began to feed. The others could not do anything and kept going toward the town. Some abominations continued to feed while others continued to purse the others. When they came into range, we began to fire arrows into the abominations. Soon balls of fire flashed out form the wall as Ignis brought his powers against abominations to bear. The abominations came on, Kage and 2 men managed to get into the gate, and we provided cover as Ashers, and the rest of the men rode for the gate. Of the four men who were coming on suddenly two more horses went down again. The men were thrown and quickly pounced on by the abominations. The last 2 managed to get through the gates and the gates had to be closed. We listened to the screams of the horses and the men as the abominations ripped into them. One of the men managed to get his feet and was stabbing out at the abominations but he was quickly brought down again before he could go anywhere. While we listened, the men lashed out at the abominations with arrows. It was while in the screaming and ripping that I felt Jay press into me. I looked down at him and notice the fear I put my hand around him providing him comfort while the abominations fed. I turned leading Jay away from the wall and the bloodshed outside. I saw Asher looking at me again he faces stone I could tell nothing from his face. Though I could feel the rage rolling off him as he looked at me. It was after the screaming and tearing stopped that Garrett went to find out what happened and why 4 men had died.

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  Kage told his story that he found a dead homestead and saw only one abomination that he killed quickly form a distance. It was then that they started back, and they saw Ashers group coming quickly being pursued by the abominations. Asher said he also found an empty homestead and saw abomination. He went out and killed the abomination but shortly after a large group of abominations began to pursue them. Garrett became very angry listening to Asher. “Why did you not kill the abomination from a distance like the others,” Garrett asked. “Because it is not my way” Asher responded. I saw Garrett become incensed and storm off towards the fort while Asher stared at me and Jay.