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Chapter 11
The Doll
In the serenity of the snow topped mountains, a tall twisted tree was suddenly robbed of about three metres of its height, as a sword cut through part of its trunk. That part of the tree fell away, revealing the armoured figure who had sliced the wood.
Haou's icy gold eyes scanned around as the screech of his trusty companion was heard, and a dark winged bird flew overhead. Haou looked up and brought up his hand to catch the small object that the bird dropped from its talons.
Looking at it, the Supreme King saw that it was a small doll, tatty with a ripped red dress and black hair, only about fifteen centimetres in height. He sniffed at the doll a couple of times, and picked up the scent of wood, fire, and other signs of war.
The gold eyed terror dropped out of the tree to land in a crouched position in front of his army of Fiends, three of them a few feet in front of the rest.
Haou glared at those three, and tossed the doll to one of them. The fiend caught it and looked down at the delicate doll.
"What do you see?" Haou asked, his voice emotionless.
The fiend scanned the doll with his eyes.
"Black pine" he answered. "From the high mountains!"
Another fiend grabbed the doll, and plucked from it a fine white hair.
"White horse hair" he told the king. "Imperial stallions."
The third fiend grabbed the doll and sniffed it.
"Sulphur" he informed the king. "From canons."
The third fiend handed the doll back to the Supreme King, who looked down at it as he spoke to them.
"This doll came from a village in the South Eastern Pass, where the Imperial Army is waiting for us."
A fourth fiend, the one that carried a boy and arrow, came up beside the other three and said, "we can avoid them easily."
But Haou shook his head.
"No" the king said quietly. "The quickest way to the emperor is through that pass."
Haou looked off into the distance as he spoke, mentally navigating his way through the mountains to the area where he knew - because he was more training in war strategies than anyone he could think of - the Imperial Army would be waiting.
Haou looked down at the cotton doll in his hand.
"Besides. The little girl will be missing her doll."
He turned and grinned evilly at them, something he rarely did.
"We should return it to her."
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