Kian placed the sack on the table and gestured for Guido to open it. The stench was awful—like rotting flesh. Hesitant but intrigued, Guido pulled the sack closer and peered inside. His eyes widened. A decapitated head stared back at him.
What he saw left him stunned; glancing at Kian, he saw that he was still just sitting there, not planning to explain why he had shown him this, so he opened the sack all the way up to inspect the decapitated head.
Clearing his throat, he looked at Kian. "What's the meaning of this?" he demanded, locking eyes with Kian.
Kian met his gaze without hesitation. "It's a bandit's head."
"The lord wanted to know if we could get any bounty or anything for the corpses or heads of bandits; we wiped a whole gang out near the capital."
Guido just stared at Kian, not knowing what to say. 'His lord asked that? What kind of noble does that?' He couldn't understand it at all.
