"the Dragon, the Giant and the Weapons Smith"

“the Dragon, the Giant and the Weapons Smith”

11 heads rested atop 11 poles, each pole towering 15 ft high and spaced every 60 paces, this was done so travelers on the road for over 1/4 a mile would walk under the gaze of the dead villagers. Some eyes stared down at the passing villagers while others faced out towards the sea as if looking for ships and fishing boats coming into port, but they looked with lifeless eyes. Commanded to be placed there by the War Lord, their crime, simply having looked upon his Concubine as she passed the crowd in the open palanquin, rather than keeping heads low to the ground. The dark clouds hung heavily in the sky and still looked pregnant with moisture from the storm that had passed over the village earlier in the morning, leaving the roads deep in mud. Along with the heavy rains, came the Kyouffuu winds that had bent many young sapling trees and torn off some of the thatched roofs of the villagers homes. ,

Staying still as the great tree he clu