Anad lowered his head even more.
'Yes… The savages that live in Upper Grazhamich are planning to attack our kingdom again. My son heard it with his own ears when he went to the city to trade. There will be war, and recruiters will come to gather the king's tribute in people… But we already have too few able-bodied men left! Krisha will become a village of women, children and old men! Oh, Spirit Emperor, I don't want my only son to go to war. I'm already blessed that you spared him your wrath…'
When I leaned forward to see Anad's face better, I caught a shine of a tear in the corner of his eye.
I pursed my lips in sympathy. Things like these were never easy…
And notably, if the Krisha village dies out because recruiters forcefully enlisted everybody in it, we will be left without our best place to trade!
Other human settlements were too far away to trade with them at our current infrastructure level.
