Chapter 2 begins in the aftermath of the battle. Our (yet unnamed) protagonist has survived and moreover he’s caught the eye of a woman moving about the battlefield with the main body of officers. There are people all over the place policing the wounded and gathering weapons and armor. She find him policing bodies under the orders of his superiors. She pulls him off the duty line and addresses him.
She is studying him as they speak. She doesn’t come out and say she knows what he is, but she does explain that she witnessed what happened when he raised the flag and asks about the incident. It leads to a conversation which ends in her asking for him to be assigned to her. His new commander (old one died) balks at this but another officer steps in and says that her word is bond.
Backstory:
What is happening here is the establishment of the major players. I want to build a sense of who the people are in charge of this force and who this (woman?) is and what her role is. This is the part of most stories where they either start turning towards a story that goes somewhere or falls apart and falls into madness. I’m not sure about this one. It will need some real TLC tomorrow to get back on track. A lot of unanswered questions and cliches here.