The Beldams

• the first smoke has given them...

  the right to stay. we'll see
• the finger of suspicion...

  points not at a villager - the very thought - but at a stranger
• and each of you should have...

  your head shaven to mark you out as ... well suspicious
• these _ that seek to _

  these funguses that seek to feed on us
• did Mr Quill say that these newcomers...

  were fugitives from sheep themselves, exiled from their own commons
• the Beldams have suffered...

  at our hands. that is not deniable. but they've been feeding off us too.
• his axe...

  takes a full bite
• A fury has swept through the place, ...

  a fury that reserved its wrath for mostly worthless things
• lying down on my sword has made a comrade out of him, ...

  a fellow victim of the world.