Imagine letting this happen to your progeny right in front of you and not immediately ripping out the perpetrator's throat with your teeth, and calling yourself a Saxon.
Defective blood. The weak are culled.
The weak are culled.
If only this were the case. The weak are kept alive in the fields. No sense harming the sheep, they are useful idiots.
There are more sheep than the shepherd can consume by himself, and he fears the herd will escape his control, so he allows a pack herd of wolfs to mingle with the flock. Only the most vicious of rams will survive. The bar for survival is being set very high. This is a pivotal evolutionary event in the bloodline of the sheep. The remaining branch will be too dangerous to be herded, and the shepherd's fears will manifest to the utmost degree.
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