He sees a man in a leather jack standing before a wooden hatchway in the hillside. Another man lies prone on the grass, quite still with a crude, bloody bandage wrapped around his head. A sack lies nearby, behind the man, whose back remains turned on Titus.Varrus the Ethical wrote:Titus
Shield and mace in hand, Titus bursts forward from the bush, ready to protect the innocent the Speaker lead him to.
Titus cannot make out the details, but somebody is trying to push up from within the passage in the hill.
The embattled man stands over his fallen brother and swings his club down into the dark doorway.
CLANG!
THUNK!
He lays into his subterranean enemies with desperate, reckless blows, screaming, ''You killed him!"