The Reznor castle sits in a wind swept land, not so tall and no tower at all, just barely stony. Only few lights are visible through the slim windows and no one of them is pointing toward the surrounding green.

Sergeant Gruff has gone for a safe tactic, we are flat against the grass, moving slowly toward the target. I can see the other teams, reaching from the hill, moon is high, I can glimpse few flashes of metal, well I wouldn't care if I didn't know they were other SWAT.

We started circling and...

"It happened, while circling I mean"
"Yes officer, it was as big as the castle, I saw this light, it went out slowly, from the castle, yellow fire, my ears bursted and I fell down."
"And..."
"And when I managed to stand up, everything was on fire..."
"Reports say that you started shouting and waving the others well before the explosion..."
"I'm sorry? No, no, it was all on fire, I remember every detail, the main door shattered, barrels of oil or, possibly, gunpowder were flying high, and I remember the cries, from the castle..."
"Anything else, are you sure you didn't see anything else?"
"Well, there is something but it's impossible, it was dark and the smoke it could be anything, really..."
"Let's listen to this anyway, shall we?"
"There were three people, on horse."
"On horse. People like what, I mean, what they looked like?"
"Ehm, they wore metal armours. And shields."
"Shields, like knights, with lances and so on... ?"
"No no, they didn't have any lance, just the shield, maybe they had maces ... Ehehem..."
"Maces..."
"Yes beacause I waved them and they waved back, and they had maces or big staves. A