Coffee and Roses

Tale 16

Tale 16
White Foxes

“Everyone in town knew about your identity as a Wind Mage.” Primrose

“Yes, so the bandits must have heard about it and they came prepared to take me down and take the kids.” Drustan

“The bandits are probably worried that there are some hidden soldiers in town so they took some hostages to play it safe.” Titus

“They are also using the kids as hostages to get everyone to surrender all of their belongings willingly while most of the bandits are ransacking the warehouses and shops.” Drustan

“No wonder they are called White Foxes.” Primrose

“So what’s the plan?” Drustan

“We will take them down.” Primrose

“Without any plan of how to attack?” Drustan

“That’s the plan, attack!” Titus

Drustan was speechless. Aren’t you two being too reckless?

***

The White Foxes are a group of notorious bandits who hailed from the North.

They abandoned their territory after the young Duke, Indigo Crimson, almost wiped them out.

They became rogues who travel to different places, spreading the name White Foxes far and wide.

During their last raid last month on a small town, they almost died because it turns out there are a few travelling mages and soldiers resting on an inn in that town. They learnt from their mistake, so now they decided to hold some hostages while ransacking this town.

“Boss, this town seems good. There are pretty ladies and there’s good money since there’s a lot of shops.” Said one of the goons

“Should we stay here for a while longer? Although this place is close to the boarder, it’s far to the outpost of soldiers patrolling the boarder so it’s safe for us.” Said Randel, the leader of the White Foxes, and a powerful Wind Mage.

“What should we do with the hostages, boss?”

“Have fun with them of course.” Randel

“How about the kids?”

“After we take all of the valuables here, we will leave and we will take the kids to raise them as bandits.” Randel

“Good idea, Boss!”

“Claud, they will take us away and make us bandits too.”

“Mommy w-will get mad if we become baddies like t-them.”

“Don’t worry. Mommy will come and save us for sure.”

Just then, Randel heard two small voices whispering loudly to each other. The two looks calm which was a contrast to all the other crying kids.

The children’s crying and wailing sounds really annoying. He really hates kids.

He was thinking of ways on how to shut them up when a loud explosion startled everyone.

“What was that?” Randel asked

“Boss, we’re under attack!” one of his goons came running to report. Fear is written all over his face.

Just how fearsome are the enemies?

“Tsk. So there are hidden soldiers here too? How many are they? Twenty? Thirty?” Randel