He worked quickly to empty out the individual stalls, then moved on to scraping out the room the pigs were kept in. “Careful, lad.” Ram looked up to see one of the journeyman butchers in the room. “Only go in the empty rooms. Those hogs haven’t eaten in a day, and if you get into the midst of them, they will tear you apart.” Ram looked over the chest-level fencing to see a sounder of hogs silently staring in his direction. He shivered as he realized he had almost opened the gate holding them in.
