They knew better than anyone which side the soldiers taken by Baron Lukeville were on, and what happened over there.
However, no one had the courage to tell the poor woman the truth.
Besides, what if they were still alive?
The probability was very small, but not impossible; out of the 300,000 troops, perhaps only a tenth or a fifth actually died in battle.
The first Hundred-man Team might have been wiped out, but the ones that went in later perhaps didn't even see the enemy and fled with the routed army.
Yet—
They also knew that the defeated rebel army had long since gone home to hide. Now even the victors were returning home; those who hadn't reunited with their families were unlikely to ever come back.
The woman showed a look of disappointment on her face, yet she did not give up, still searching through the camp like a relentless ghost.
