"Wait, wait, wait all three of you are called Daryl?" Kyle was thoroughly confused now and they hadn't even asked them any questions yet.
"It's okay Lord Kyle they probably all joined the sa rcenary company, found they all had the sa na and beca friends."
Ash reasoned as he could see the irritation on Kyle's face. Hearing Ash Kyle felt that this was the most likely situation so he began to think about what questions he was going to ask.
"Actually we are brothers." The one on the right said making everyone look at them strangely while Ash's eyebrow began to twitch.
"Brothers like sworn brothers or brothers in arms?" Susan volunteered her thoughts but she had a bad feeling to what the response was going to be.
"Nope sa ma and pa we left our hotown together to seek our fortunes." The one in the middle responded this ti while Susan he her head in her hands.
"So just to confirm your parents called three of their sons the sa na." Kyle was trying to get his brain around the situation of these brothers.
"No I'm Daryl."
"And I'm Darryl."
"And last but not least I'm Daryll."
"OH GOD DAMN IT THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SA NA!" Randall was getting close to snapping and everyone else just wanted this conversation to be complete.
"Not quite you need to emphasise the different parts as you say them I'm Daryl nice and simple Darryl you need to really stretch the arr got it?"
"Look I don't an to be rude but right now at this precise point in ti I really don't give a monkey's ass." With that Kyle projected 3 slave seals and forcefully applied them to the Daryl's in front of him.
"What did you just do?" Daryl asked as he could feel sothing was different but he didn't understand what was happening or rather he didn't want to believe what had just happened.
"Simple gentlen I've placed you all under a slave seal. Now you will answer my questions truthfully and fully, you need to give as much information as you can understand?"
The three rcenaries who were now slaves could do nothing but nod their heads to their new lord. They regretted taking this contract but the offer was too good and the boss was nothing if not greedy.
"Good now tell where does your rcenary group hail from?"
Kyle began with a simple question which would be easy to verify. Even though they were under the influence of the slave seal it was always best to ease people into these interrogations with simple questions to start with just to get their minds geared towards answering questions.
"Our group cos from our hotown, it's a low level city a few cities to the east."
One of the Daryl's responded as he knew there was no reason to resist. rcenaries are the most pragmatic of soldiers and knowing they could do nothing about the situation they now found themselves in they could only respond truthfully.
"Good and now how did your group co to be in our city?"
"The boss got a black job request along with a lot of the other smaller rc bands around. When we were coming to the city we rged with a larger host but found out it wasn't just rcs but bandits as well."
"What do you an by a black job request?"
"They're usually postings that don't go through the union and are more like unofficial jobs. They usually are sothing to do with nobles who are fighting each other. Gotta say though this is the biggest one we've been involved in."
"Oh really what do you an by that?"
"Well your honour we had rc bands from all over, add in the bandits and we outnumber all the guards in the city."
"Interesting, do you happen to know who hired you and the others?"
"Didn't know before we got here, but we were staging outside the city when so prat in a black cloak rocked up to talk to the bosses. He told them that they needed to enter the city in small groups and stay ready to act on the day of the harvest festival."
"Good we have a tifra, now did you get the identity of this man in the cloak?"
"Hold your horses I'm getting there, so when this poof was leaving a couple of us were told by the boss to follow him. It weren't just us but a few of the other bands had n following. It were bloody hilarious, you had this pompous twat swaggering back to the city with fifty n following and he didn't even look back. When he got to the gate he took down his hood and demanded they let him through in the na of the Miles family and flashed so kinda badge."
"Good if the guards let him through like that it ans they could confirm his identity so these people have all been brought in by the Miles family probably using the resources they gained from their backer in the capital."
"Well sir what'll happen to us now?"
Finally the Daryl's wanted to know what was going to happen to them as they didn't want to give up their lives like this at least not without a fight. Kyle looked at them and began to hatch a plot, looking towards his generals he felt the best way to deal with this situation was to turn the enemy's resources against them.
"Faye, One I'm going to need you to work overti for the next while. I want you to entrap, trick or straight up kidnap as many of the rcs as you can. We need to keep it quiet so you can use the Daryl's to make a start with their group. Lady Sparrow I'm afraid we'll need to use your facilities again to house these personages until I can lay a slave seal upon them. Ash these "new recruits" will be yours; I need you to train them as hard and as fast as possible. We don't have long so I'm only aiming to weaken them and lessen their numbers. Tobias we are going to start inducting the general guards into the 'death watch' I need you to identify good candidates for officer level. Does anyone have anything else they would like to bring to the table?"
Kyle looked at the mbers of the council and could see they were thinking, finally it was Maria who spoke up.
"The timing of the attack is going to be at the harvest festival. Do we have any idea of what ti that will be?"
Everyone looked at the Daryl's who looked uncomfortable. They didn't truthfully know but they didn't want to anger their new lord so Daryl 1 decided to bluff it. When he thought of this and decided to do it he suddenly felt pain shooting through him. It was as if a thousand needles were shooting through all of his muscles at the sa ti leaving him a twitching blubbering wreck.
"Daryl it isn't a good idea to lie to , if you don't know the answer just tell the truth. Oh and just so you know this doesn't extend to other people so feel free to lie to the girl you may be dating."
Daryl was thankful for this little rcy and gradually the pain faded away only leaving him with the fear of it. Kyle was watching these n and decided to give them a boon as they would be the newest mbers of his force.
"Look I don't know if you three are aware but in the next year or two the northern regions are going to be cut off from the capital, when that happens the army will not protect the cities only the garrisons present at that ti will be left. We are preparing for that as well so if you let know which city is your ho town I will ensure it is protected."
The Daryl's were shocked to hear what Kyle had said because the northern lands were a massive swath of land and to let this are just fall didn't make sense to them. However Kyle had no reason to lie to them due to the slave contract so they decided it would be best to believe in him at least for now. They looked at each other and could see the agreent in each other's eyes. Finally it was Daryl who spoke up and let the gathered mbers know the na of their city.
"Our hotown is only small we don't even have a standing garrison so I don't know what resources we will be able to provide you but we would appreciate your assistance."
"No problem, anyway getting back to what we were discussing. The ti of the attack will most likely be later at night probably sowhere between ten and twelve." Kyle stated his belief as he felt this was the most likely ti for the enemy to strike.
"Yes if I was going to attack the noble families in the city this would be the most sensible ti due to the guards being at minimal strength and those being off duty having a chance to drink themselves into a stupor."
Landon agreed with Kyle as he knew that at these kind of festivals the off duty guards would get hamred and even the on duty guards would be a bit sloshed. No noble would usually attempt anything during this ti as it was considered extrely bad manners and may carry repercussions from the imperial overseer. But this begged the question what was the overseer going to do so Landon posited this question.
"During this do you have any idea what the imperial overseer will be doing?"
"Well most likely he will be with our enemies. He has no reason to side with us as we've made no overtures to gain his favour and he must be aware of the situation to the south but we have had no reports of him attempting to flee, so I think he is going to milk this for as much as he can."
Faye and One agreed with Kyle as they both had separate dossiers on him, One had details of his illegal dealings which included drugs and slavery while Faye had details of several won he kept in the city and also copies of secret docunts between him and the empire that 'steel lotus' had copied. Kyle had seen all of this evidence and it wasn't the actions of soone planning to cut and run, so his interpretation of this was that this little man was planning on building himself a little kingdom and just wait for the end in luxury. It wasn't really a bad plan but it did sacrifice everyone else.
While they were thinking through the upcoming battles they would be facing Kyle rembered he hadn't got the na of the Daryl's hotown.
"Daryl what was the na of you hotown I'll need to get a team over there soon?"
"Thank you sir it's called Scottland."
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