He looked up to find Alix peering through the tent flap with a worried expression. He stood. “What’s the matter?” “Sorry, I didn’t mean to alarm you. It’s just . . .” She blinked and shook her head, as if she couldn’t quite believe what she was about to say. “Albern Highmo...
said Commander Morris, wiping the back of his hand over a bloodied mouth, “was dirty.” “There’s no etiquette in war, Morris. No whinging, either.” Laughter rippled through the handful of onlookers. Rig rapped his wooden sword against the edge of his shield. “Let’s go.” &nb...
She’d been on her way to Karringdon to spend the summer with her aunt, one of Rig’s early and swiftly abandoned schemes to have his sister instructed in the art of being a lady. About half a day north of the river, they’d passed through a deserted husk of a town overgrown with weeds. Abandoned, h...