Dumb Muscle and Proud
This city wasn't like home at all, too nosy and full of smaller ones who rushed around like bugs. All the new smells were nice, especially all the ones related to foods and drinks she had never seen or heard of before, but she still like Ostland better than Marienplace. Didn't help that unlike home outside city was nothing but swampland that just smelt wrong, like places beastmen liked gathering in large groups if more spread out and weak.
Still, Angrad Brawlerguts Horsecruncher Beastcrush Pulverizer Monstertosser would follower her boss and his boss anywhere she and her Pulverizers were needed, even if most of the time all they did was put themselves between him and his mate from those who unlike home knew to get out an ogre's way.
She was expecting a big fight on this journey, cause that is usually what happened whenever the Big Boss brought them places. Like when they went into deep forest to help stick elves fight lots of beastmen and she and her Pulverizers held off a whole army just by themselves! There should be a Big Name for that, but she wasn't sure what it should be. Maybe the underboss, Urgdug, would find a good one since he had the most and therefore was the expert on Big Names in whole of Ostland. Anyway, she expected a fight... but the fight never came.
Came close when they went to big water god's house and lots of angry humans looked ready to rush them all, would have been stupid since Angrad could easily crush the lot of them, but the god's knights kept fight from happening. After that the Big Boss did ritual thing to make them happy by being punished, something Angrad heard about from ogres who followed wild god and his farming wife. He thought whole thing stupid since from what she knew Big Boss did nothing wrong, but not her job to question the Big Boss's orders, just smash and bash things when told.
Besides, Angrad was more Esmerelda girl herself since she loved wearing her metal armor and shield and didn't have patience for farming. Only important rules there was eating right and protecting home, and only punishment for doing something wrong was cleaning up mess which just made sense. She would never get why humans or ogres were want to worship anyone else but here, espiecally greedy Maw that never shared.
Oh did she want to smash each and ever filthy Maw ogre she saw since coming here, and she knew her Pulverizers and the Underboss wanted to too, but she settled for glaring and growling at them till they wisely ran off like the cowards they were. Good sense.
After all that Angrad and a few others guarded the Big Boss and his mate as they went around city, which was fun in own way since she and hers got to eat and drink lots of things! Got lots of good ale and meat from dwarfs that lived in city which was the best.
Most of time it was boring work, only time she was uneasy when the Big Boss went into Elf town without them and then when they go to place claimed by raider humans. Angrad always on guard then in case she had to smash the lot of them, even when eating and drinking lots, since she didn't trust any of them. The Big Boss must have felt same way since he seemed very unhappy when they left. She would have gladly smashed them all to help make him feel better if he said so, but he didn't so she didn't speak up.
A Pulverizer was a shield first before anything else, and shields don't talk... at least not normal good ones.
Other than that the worst thing they faced was annoying humans who kept on trying to bribe them to leave Big Boss and work for them, and Angrad took pleasure in 'gently' pushing them aside with her shield when they got too close. None of those weaklings were worth following even
if they could pay Angrad in more good than she could ever want, something which she highly doubted since only the Big Boss got them the best kind whenever they wanted.
It was even better when they ate what they had just recently killed. Greenskins, spiders, monsters, bad humans, and more! Only beastmen and things that smelled like them they didn't eat, which was likely best since their meat always smelt bad.
City was not Angrad's favorite, but it did have lots of new things she never seen before. Of course, unless they were food or a threat she didn't focus on them long, and when people started talking if it didn't involve those topics they tended to go right over her head and made her lose interest fast. She was no Underboss, not nearly as smart as the ogre that made whole school for their kind to get smarter, but she did know basics do's and don'ts so that was all that mattered in the end.
When her mind wasn't on her job her mind was elsewhere, about Ostland and the few of her Pulverizers she left behind to watch over the Big Boss's son as they went off to hunt in forest. They were strong, all her Pulverizers were, and so was young bull just like father, but Angrad still didn't like being away from fighting in general and not being there to be the wall she was to defend those who were not nearly as tough as her. She just hoped they got home soon so they could help out in fight if still happening, and if the fastest way back was on big boat over big water that tasted too salty to be nice.
Besides, no matter how good the food here was she liked the Kitchen back home way more.
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AN: A little POV from Angrad since hadn't had one since Battle of the Bone Gate. She, like the rest of the Pulverizers, is a stereotypical ogre musclehead who would likely have been a Bruiser back in the mountains if not more in another life. I reminder that most imperial ogres are closer to this compared to Urgdug who had to work hard to get average human intelligence. Still, she and other ogres still take pride in their work, follow orders, and most of all don't take stock in Maw stuff in general thanks to Urgdug's large influence and Freddy's to lesser extant.
