The Queen's General Says, Let's End This War

The queen's general shook his head at the piles upon piles of cages. We're a week away from cracking the city like an egg, and you give it up for birds. The reason why olga wanted three birds from every house was so that when she let them go, at least one would return to its nest with a burning chunk of sulphur following it. And as the city stood smoking and smouldering the following day, olga could rest assured that her husband had been avenged. Whoever olga's soldiers didn't kill, they enslaved for their role in egor's murder - though really, what was a tanner supposed to do about his tribal leader wanting to ambush