Corruption Rent: Day 4

Word Count: 24,007

Summary of Events:
Chapter 7:
Agathe was still journeying out of the foothills with her captors and was told, possibly, what she and the women would be subject to doing, and wasn't looking forward to it, while Étienne and the archers attacked the Wouest-Suides who were starting to retreat even faster.
Chapter 8:
The regular pass Agathe's captors used was blocked by a recent landslide so they went to a different pass and were ambushed by Le Suid forces who captured the wagon. Étienne was engaging in more combat with the Wouest-Suid troops in full retreat and one soldier tried to pull him off the mountain with a rope that he cut off of himself. He was then tended to by two fellow archers.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Agathe jumped and the women screamed at a loud clang. The soldiers at the back turned and looked up, another clang sounded and Agathe whirled around, the soldiers around the front were both laying on the bench unmoving, dents in their helmets.
Two more clangs sounded and the soldiers at the back were knocked out. Agathe screamed with the rest of the women when four soldiers in grey garb and no crest jumped down. The grey soldiers bound up the Wouest Suid soldiers and stripped them of their weapons.
One of the grey soldiers found the keys and unlocked the door. The women all gathered rather nervously, not sure what these soldiers would want to do with them. One of the soldiers looked up and startled.
"Women," he said.
The other soldiers all looked up and all looked equally as astonished. One stepped forward, Agathe surmised that he was likely the leader.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"We are being taken away for having pledged allegiance to Roi Joseph huit, de Plandoule," Agathe replied.
"Well then we'll keep you there," the leader said.
He and the other soldiers pitched the Wouest Suid soldiers into the wagon. Agathe knelt down beside the soldiers and worked to pry the soldiers' helmets off their heads.
"Who are you?" one of the women asked.
"We are soldiers of the army of Le Suid Roidoummé," the leader replied.
Agathe looked up. "What are you going to do with us?"
The soldiers looked at each other, then they looked back with smiles on their faces.
"No," Agathe said firmly. "We may be women, and we may be weaker, but we are not playthings. We are not toys. Such activity will not be tolerated."
"And how would you stop us?" one of the soldiers asked.
"We won't tell you," Agathe replied. "But we advise you not to make any attempts, being as it would better for you to not find out. You would not want to experience it."
Agathe looked at them fiercely. The soldiers didn't look afraid, but they closed and locked the door without doing anything further. They then climbed onto the wagon and started the horses forward.
The landscape slowly started to widen out. Agathe didn't pay any mind to it, however, she continued to work on getting the soldiers' helmets free of the Wouest Suid soldiers' heads. She managed to succeed and laid them all out so they were comfortable."

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