Mert's memories returned in a blaze of fire.
Cleek was burning, he watched in silence as the raiders tortured Faucet, and then turned to him with questions of the missing Dev.
He answered them only with a stare, and so their leader sliced out his eyes.
The raiders took Faucet, and left Mert alone in the forest.
There he crawled for three days blind and desolate, until he was found by bandits, Scar and her men.
He began a new life of servitude among their clan.
When the bandit queen sensed his exceptional strength and power of will, and listened. As he whispered dark prophetic truths in his sleep.
Those who could not accept the blind being standing by their masters side did not last long. When they attacked, he killed them without mercy and without emotion.
For this was his place in the world now.
Based on a true story. Known as the origin of the new clique.