Serpentis Family/Yeux/Working like a Commoner
Yeux arrived in Barad Gardor with a coin of gold in the pocket and a report of 21 gold for picking up in the bank. The group was small. The only healer also worked as scribe. Yeux learned to read and write, but few times he made that personally and he also refused to pay a scribe in times of war and little gold. Three young scouts and any flag. The times of little gold did with that Yeux sought young and fast scouts. They were good and had strong legs besides knowing the territories of Falasan very well. The hero could not pay for horses as in the old and good times.
The first visit went to the bank and the gold was to pay the scouts and the old healer. The man deserved the gold after taking care of the wounds of Yeux in the last battles in Cori. While the hero was arrested in the bed the troops struggled until the last man. The hero was resented by not could struggle with his men and the troops were decimated, but the battle was won. The group received permission to go to the tavern and rest a little, but Yeux still needed to find more gold to recruit new soldiers. And he didn't find fair to ask more gold before finding gold for his own merits. And walking for a part more poor of the Capital, Yeux saw a group of workers covering a merchant's house with straw. The roof probably fell during a stronger rain and the employees arose and went down in wood stairways and they went covering the roof with straw.
Yeux was just with a light armor of leather, but before arriving close he removed the belt with the sword and hid it in a hay heap. He didn't want that the workers noticed that he was a warrior. He was a strong man and his arms could help in that task. The employees were singing an old song while they worked:
Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
Tell him I'm gone
If he asks you was I runnin'
Tell him I was flyin'
If he asks you was I laughin'
Tell him I was cryin'
They wanna feed me bread and molasses
But I got my pride
Well, I got my pride!
A music of workers. And Yeux liked the rhythm. He came as a traveler and said that needed some gold to continue traveling. The merchant agreed in paying a fair price. And along the day and when falling of the night, Yeux was working with the commoners, hammering and covering the roof with straw. He was sweating, he was hunger and thirsty, but he sang with the workers. And when he was already finishing the work a group of soldiers that patrolled the city saw Yeux in the high of the roof. Delayed a little for they recognize him, but soon they were pointing the finger and laughing. The great Yeux Serpentis, hero of Chato and Tucha was there working as a commoner.
But the hero stayed impassive. When he finished the work he got off the roof and pick up the sword that was hidden. And for an instant the merchant's spine shook and he would have given everything that he was in home to forgive that offense, but Yeux calmed him and said that just wanted the fair price. Everything that the merchant had for him was 19 coins of gold. And Yeux accepted and thanked.
For an instant, through where he passed he felt that the people pointed the finger, laugh and whispered. And in spite of the calm, the Hero would have a revenge. He entered in the tavern where the soldiers go and pulled the sword of the hem. The green eyes of serpent seemed so furious that the first men that saw him thought on that night there would be a death party of blood and screams. But Yeux placed the sword on one of the tables and faced the soldiers with the fists. The drunks moved away the tables and a circle of men was formed. Arms for the air and incentive cries. It was a fight!
A great fighter was chosen to defend the soldiers' honor, after all was Yeux that was working as a commoner. The soldier was a head higher than Yeux and he had bull muscles. The two challengers got rid of the armors and shirts. They were faced and soon they advanced an against the other as two elks disputing a female. The soldier was stronger, but Yeux learned how to fight with Dakhir when he was still a child and his brother was already a hero. There were not kicks, but many punches. Yeux finished the fight with several red stains in the chest and in the abdomen. But he got right two such strong punches in the soldier's nose that he didn't get more to breathe and was with blood running for the face and for the chest. And he went weakening until falling on the knees.
The drunks screamed. Yeux was a hero again.
(OOC: Te music is Leadbelly - Take a Hammer. Enjoy :)
