Kadrek was tall, even among the Diabaine who were the largest of the known races and he was heavily built.

His skills with the battle axe, next to his tracking abilities, were almost unparalleled among his kind, save their leader, the warlord Azurek.

And now a bit of reckless drunken carousing had earned him a week’s guard duty on a remote outpost near the border, he grimaced at the thought.

The Laichanan had chosen his watch to raid the food stores, when he had gone to relieve himself.

He had sworn to bring back their shaggy heads before the next dawn.