Darkened Blade: A Fallen Blade Novel - Plot & Excerpts
As a mode of travel barges drive me to distraction. They’re slow. They’re cramped. They’re damp. It would have been a good deal faster to walk from Tavan to Uln on the tow path that followed the river, and much cheaper, and that’s almost certainly what we would have done, too, if it weren’t for the risen. Running water impedes the passage of the restless dead and the Tamar River was deep and wild. The barge master had cleverly used the load of planks she was carrying upriver to Uln to create a sort of second deck atop the barrels and crates of her other goods. Add in the padding of heavy tarps, and it made a perfect fencing ring—irresistible to a bunch of bored Blades. . . . I stopped my swords halfway to their sheathes when Siri indicated she wanted to go a round—I’d just finished a pass with Faran. “I’m up for it if you think you’re ready.” I flicked a look at the all too fresh scar where her left forearm ended.
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