The clansman sat down on a boulder and gazed from the mountainside at the gleaming city below, white and glorious, like a child's castle set on a carpet of green. The enemy had surprised the city dwellers some three hours before, and black smoke billowed now from the tur...
There was no dignity in death, he realized, seeing that the dead had fouled themselves and the stench carried even through the rain. There were some amongst the Guardians who were considered soldiers, men of action. Yet none that Archer could bring to mind could match tha...
Across the room Bodalen saw the bodies of the other knights, melding together, twisting as if involved in some silent, unnatural orgy. And between them, lying still on the golden floor, was the huge skeleton. Bodalen screamed again. And passed out. ...
Every evening the deer travelled this trail, but these she never hunted for they were too close to the settlement. As her father had warned her during her training, ‘When you are fit and strong, hunt far from home. You never know when disaster may strike - a sudden blizzard, or a lame leg — and y...
Uther paced the halls of Camulodunum like a caged warhound, eagerly watching the roads from his private apartments in the north tower. Every time a messenger arrived the King would hurry to the main hall, ripping the seals from despatches and devouring the contents, ever seeking news of insurrect...
'How do we approach them?' asked Korrin. 'We do not. We wait for them to approach us.' 'And if they do not?' 'Then we go home hungry. Hunting is a question of patience. The tracks show the deer follow this trail to drink. We sit here and we let the hours flow over us. Your...