Kyle Romphet and Kandar Corvus were already inside the barn, sat together with Mr. Krill himself and he looking weary depressed. Krill's wife entered the barn and place three coffees at the wooden rounded table, and slightly bowed to Kyle and Kandar.
"Ma, where Killa?" Krill asks his wife about his older son who supposedly sweeping the barn, his wife clutching her tray over her chest, and looking at his husband with tired face and a sigh came out from her lips.
"Killa? He's still sleeping up there on his room pa," Krill rubs his wrinkled forehead after his wife respond to him, meanwhile Kyle and Kandar across the table just listen to the old couple. Kyle wants to gives a piece of his advices but knowing that might start unneeded chat, he holding himself by slowly rubs his own upper lip.
After a few seconds, Mrs. Krill bow to them three and off from the barn to weep the house and do her chores.
Krill chuckled after his wife leave them three on the barn, the horse laying off on the ground with her belly and munching pile of grass. "Kyle, how Nilan? Does your daughter's fever get better?" His voice still sounding troubled.
"Ah- she's better now sir, moving fast like usual." Kyle said while he gestured his hand midair.
Krill gestured his fingers to them to drank the coffee on the table, Kandar took a sip and asks Krill about something, his elbows prop him up on the table edge. "About the tasks? Is it pest control? But… I heard that you already afford the service week ago."
"Yes, I do." Krill laid his back on the wooden chair and throw his cig pack at the table, "Scammed, fuckin' amateurs. Those bastards didn't do their job properly and the wolves still taking some of farm's stocks last night." His voice bit hard and annoyedly exasperated.
Kyle's eyebrows raised up while he blows off some smokes, he then spoke up again, "But I see the guys kit, they well equipped aren't they? How could they come out as incompetent?" His tones questioning Krill.
"3 days, at first, they do look competent on their field. Twenty-two dark wolves and twelves more at the next day. Looking promising for them to hunt lot of them, I thought that it was all of it and I pay them quite high." Krill paused his talk to take a drag his cigarette and blow the smokes off upward while looking at ceiling, he looks at Kandar and Kyle again. "The wolves still coming, lot of them, probably about fifteen more and took 3 cow and 5 sheep."
"Three cow and five sheep!? That'll be more than fifteen wolves! If they took lot of your farm Krill." Said Kandar his voice and tones bit shocked, as he places the cup down to the table and take cig from Kyle's cig pack, and Kyle comedically side-glancing him while taking drag off his cig.
"They do nest inside the deep wood of course, what? Are they building up some of empire there?" Kyle chuckled crossing his arms and laying his back at the wooden chair. Then Krill off his cig by throwing it to the ashtray in the middle of the table they sat, he rose from his chair and gesturing his hand toward the door while looking at them.
After walks out to the spot where Krill stack the wolf corpses, they stood in front of the thirty-four wolf corpses. Kandar squat closely, he looks at the wolf's face with a, Kandar's eyes squint and his brows dug deep with an observing look.
Kandar's hands rummaging at the wolf corpses, meanwhile Krill and Kyle chat with each other about how the wolfs attack goes? Are they swarming, or methodically precise? As Kandar found something unusual odd and weird on the wolf's face, his tone slow and calling them two to gather "Hey, come closer at here."
"Do you think the wolf's face look smiling to you guys?" Kandar's said to them with a disturbed face while holding the lower jaw of the smiling death wolf. Kyle and Krill who just stood before Kandar who hilariously wobbling the wolf's lower jaw take a side-glance at each other with much of confusedly questioningly kind of face expression.
"Must be a one in billons, right?" Kyle said while chuckling and tapping Krill's right shoulder. Krill sighed heavily as he come tired and just asks Kandar to come to the barn at night. But before that, Krill asked them to come in and gather to eat at the barn first before them head off.
After making up some deal with Krill, Kandar and Kyle head off from the barn and the sky was slowly darkening night. They walk under the muddy path of Krill's field, they look to right and left, suddenly Kyle's hand slide into his own pocket to grab his cig pack but it was different.
"Olboir? Jackass, aren't yours is Vendetta?" Kandar said with slightly shocked voice after looking at different cigarette brand. But Kyle didn't respond through verbal since his lips used to hold the cigarette and he just give the Olboir pack to Kandar beside him.
Kandar took it and after Kyle lit his own cigarette, he then responds to him with casual and bit guilty tones, "I just wrongly took Krill's pack rather than mine, couldn't blame me, the color were same and my age didn't help it much." He blows his smokes off from his nostril while looking at the horizon.
He and Kandar just walks and pass by the gate, but far from the gate they saw a man in black cloak just squatting down on the log at the side road to the town. They two didn't bothered much and keeps walking after Kandar blows his smoke off.
When they pass the stranger clad in black cloak, the man suddenly rose from his feet and halt them two, "Hey! Please, come for a second." Said the stranger to Kyle and Kandar who almost punch him in the face.
They two were sat together in the log, Kyle at left, Kandar at the middle and the stranger was on the right part of the log with his bow laying low. The stranger introduce himself and apologizing to them to suddenly calling them like that.
"My name is Bindur." Said the stranger, or now Bindur. Kyle and Kandar introduce themselves after nod to him. Kandar took a drag of his cig and look away to blowing the smokes off and the wind breeze drag it away. "Ok, Bindur so what's your schedule here? Do we know each other?" Kandar said gently.
Kyle suddenly snorts and chuckling lowly, he adjusts his hat who nearly blown away by the wind and look at the them with a smirk. "I mean, we'll know the guy's purpose if we already know him, wouldn't we Kandar?" Kyle blows a smoke and the cricket behind them was bit noisy, but he pays not attention to the background noises and brough his face to look at Bindur. Kyle's voice is low but questioning him, "Bindur, but I kind know of your face. Are you one of the men whose Kyle hire from?"
Bindur lean forward and rest his elbows on his knees as he looking at Kyle, and nod at his guesses. "Yes, I was one of them and I want to talk out something first, I also want to apologize to you two again because I was eavesdropping your chat with Mr. Krill at the barn." He adjusts his sitting posture, his footwear rubbing the dirt uncomfortably and his lips felt scared, he then spoke again and steady himself.
"Do you men know, nor believe the existence of a hulking monster with dark fur and smiling face? I kind of witness them in the deep woods while I and my men hunt down the wolves at night, I see something big."