The bandits were real men this time. That is what makes this chapter harder than the White-Bone banishment, and the book knows it and refuses to make it easy.
A gang of thieves ambushed the pilgrims on a mountain road, robbed them, roughed up , and strung him up in a tree while they went through the baggage. came back, cut the master down, and dealt with the bandits, and dealing with them meant killing them — not demons wearing human faces, not illusions that dissolved into old bone, but living human robbers, and he killed them, and their blood was human blood, and it stayed blood.
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