Well, uncomfortable is what it was for the first twenty minutes or so; after that, it was agony. For one thing, after a while I went blind—what they call a visual blackout. It’s the result of the blood being forced to the back of your head and temporarily starving the optic nerves, but there’s s...
I left the hotel in my improvised running clothes and began jogging under a pale pinkie-gray sky that promised another glorious autumn day. Only a few clouds drifted overhead, and the heavy dew would vanish like magic as soon as the sun showed itself.I had the streets almost to myself. Down the b...
to raid the Varoki observation posts around us. Near as we could tell, the mob had been working itself up to march on Sookagrad before that, but those quick, sharp blows put them back on their heels, made them rethink everything, wait for a while, see what we planned to do next. So the raids boug...