#27: Scouts returned

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Scouts soon located the best spot for a campsite and returned. It was behind them. The Scouts reported to the First Sergeant and the First Shirt reported to the Captain. The Captain then gave orders. Immediately the caravan began to retrace its path. They were all heading back toward the head of the road.

Toward the portal.

Lamar rode Jeb and they lazily walked back the way they had come in such a panic. Might as well get started on the clean up.

Chain of command is important in the Army and Lamar was the officer. He followed the chain of command, mostly, when it suited him to do so. In this case it meant that he told the First Sergeant what he wanted done. The First Sergeant then told the Platoon Sergeants. The Platoon Sergeants told the Squad Leaders who in turn told the Soldiers. It seemed cumbersome but it worked. Soldiers immediately begin to field dress the road kill.

Lamar noticed that Kirki was riding his bear beside him. The bear was almost the size of Jeb and so Kirki was easily visible. Kirki was trying to tell him something. It had to do with the road kill.

Lamar called to the First Sergeant.

“Sergeant Halsey we have a problem” he said “tell the men to step back from the carcasses.”

The order went down the chain of command and the men stepped away from the dead animals….and watched in amazement as the Kindred wagons, somehow they learned that the locals called themselves “Kindred”, pulled by six giant buffalo each, filed out onto the yellow bricked road and rolled past them at a jog.

They were further amazed that when the wagon passed a carcass that some type of mechanism latched onto and loaded the dead animal into the wagon. The wagons were obviously in communication with each other and shared the carcasses. None were missed . The men were delighted. That was one messy job that they wouldn’t have to do. They mounted their horses and followed the wagons to the new campsite.

The Trolls, having nothing else to do and no where to go, followed.

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