The dawn sun had barely crept above the horizon, and the sky was still splashed with blood. Not the best of omens for the journey ahead. Rupert grinned tiredly, and then leaned briefly against the patiently waiting unicorn as a yawn stretched his jaw to its limit. According to his water clock, he...
Carrion made no move to help him, for which Silence was thankful. He didn’t want any reason to feel grateful to Carrion. It would have made what he had to do that much harder. Pushing his various aches and pains to the back of his mind, he concentrated on the traitor standing before him. It had b...
thought Owen Deathstalker as he headed for the toilet yet again. He knew he wouldn’t really need to do anything once he got there, but his bladder wasn’t listening to reason. Not for the first time, it had ideas of its own. He was always like this when the pressure was on, and he had too much tim...
No one seemed to be paying any special attention, but this was Haven after all, and the North Side, too, where absolutely nothing went unnoticed or unremarked by someone, if only because you never knew what might turn out to be valuable information later on. Hawk found his hand had dropped to the...
And JC still found time to wonder at just how quickly he’d got used to such marvels. Admittedly, his working life was packed full of the weird and the wondrous, but he didn’t like to think he was getting jaded. From night-time London to broad daylight half a world away was something that should b...
The planet’s surface was hidden from view by the swirling atmosphere. It looked much like any other planet; a drop of spit against the darkness. The ship’s sensor spikes shimmered briefly as it scanned Wolf IV, and then the cargo-bay doors swung open. A slender Navy pinnace emerged, sleek and sil...
The Green Man stood on the boundary between Thieves Quarter and Tech Quarter, where the lowest of the low mixed openly with the rich and powerful. It was a place where deals were made and plans were finalized. Secrets were sold and traded, or openly discussed, and the devil take the hindmost. Dea...
If he’d known being made king would involve all these bloody ceremonies, he’d have thought twice about it. Jordan usually enjoyed a good ceremony, if only for the theater of the occasion, but it felt rather different when you had to sit to attention all the way through it, for hours on end. It’s ...
Brightly colored election booths appeared on the designated street comers, in the time it took for the bells to toll the hour. Magically created and maintained by the Council’s circle of sorcerers, they were as near to being corruption-proof as anything in Haven could be. Once a vote had been reg...
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The marines had the advantage of far greater numbers, massed energy weapons, and force shields. The townspeople fought bravely, men and women standing their ground fiercely. Swords rose and fell, and blood flew on the air, hot and steaming. There were screams and battle cries and roared orders, a...
And in the War Room at Drood Hall, there was a long, terrible silence. I looked slowly around me. Molly, Callan and the Sarjeant-at-Arms had joined me in time for the end. In time to see Roger and Harry die. Everyone in the War Room was shocked, stunned. Death in the field was nothing new to Droo...
