The militia rider was already standing near the inner post of the south gate when Beorn arrived, and that confirmed he had found Lewin in the barrenland before the team reached the city on its own.
Lewin sat against the inner wall with his legs stretched out and his left arm pinned carefully against his ribs. One of the gate's two medics worked around the bolt entry point, cleaning the surface instead of extracting it, which was proper with so much still embedded in the shoulder.
Orm stood four feet away with both arms hanging loose at his sides. Ern held a cloth against the cut above his eye. All three had the same worn look of people who had been moving for days without enough rest and had not yet fully accepted that the moving was over.
Beorn read the condition of all three in the time it took to cross the gate interior. Then he stopped in front of Lewin.
"What did you find at the settlement," he asked.
