filling the camp, Rathe clambered to his feet, certain he suffered no broken bones, but bruised over every inch of his body. By the hot trickles of wetness coursing down his back, many of the scabbed stripes crisscrossing his skin had torn open. He smiled ruefully, thinking of his supply of the o...
Leitos was about to question the man’s judgment, when they splashed to the center of the stream and turned south. “The water will mask our scent,” Ba’Sel said, as if teaching an apprentice. Leitos only nodded. He had run enough since fleeing the mines to know he should conserve his breath when he...
Belina warned, looking at her father over the fire’s glowing embers. An opening in the hut’s roof created a gentle draft, drawing out the smoke, even as it ushered in fresh air under the edges of the domed shelter. “My decision is final,” Damoc said. “We do not know if this Leitos is in league wi...
Hunkered as deep as she could get within her hooded wolfskin cloak, Erryn sat her saddle wishing she were still warm and drunk in the Cracked Flagon. “What’re you on about?” she shouted back. Aedran angled his horse closer to hers and leaned in. “We’ll get through!” His blue eyes burned with irra...
As most were dead, or close enough not to matter, they offered no complaint to the squabbling crows busy plucking off strips of meat. A long summer had made dusty skeletons of those longest in the cages. Others were fresher and flyblown. Withered or seeping, all stared at passersby with cavernous...
They had been shuffling along the glowing blue corridor, when everything became brighter than the sun. There had been a terrible roaring noise that grew until it surpassed hearing. Next thing, he and Ulmek were coming awake, both sprawled over broken rocks like clothes for drying. That baffling j...