An old man tells two small children of burned homes, civilian casualties, and rotting corpses, while repeatedly calling it "a famous victory".
Now the smells of burned homes and death joined it.
There were many tearful partings, for most of the townsmen were remaining to rebuild their burned homes and serve as levies in the dukes' army.
The bodies of members of one family, including infants, were found in the charred ruins of their burned homes.
They are wearied by the sight of burned homes scattered about with the bones of their flocks.
Emilia Negron, 68, stood outside the ruins of her burned home in Nodine Hill today, in anguish about finding a new place.
And when we return from our night journeys, like refugees returning to the shells of their burned homes, we find we are where we were, back at Square One.
I slipped around the police lines, over ash-covered tennis courts, along a path and up through several burned homes, on to Skyline.
Bleeding from a scalp wound, she had escaped almost unscathed, but her heart ached for the families gathered around burned homes and broken bodies.
But the new civil administration would have to deal with that question as well as physical reconstruction of the burned homes and properties.