Lord Of Mountains: A Novel Of The Change (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Huon asked an hour later; he thought the younger boy wanted to talk. Lioncel shook his head. “No…they, assassins like that, tried to kill my lady the Grand Constable in Walla Walla a few months ago, the very same day I’d been made squire. And the Count, and my lord my father, all on the same night.” He stiffened with unconscious pride: “But my lady was ready for them! We were waiting!” Maybe because she used to be an assassin herself, Huon thought; he wasn’t sorry that she had been ready, though. That would have been a disaster for our cause, to lose the commanders in the County Palatine just as the invaders came west. Lioncel went on: “I shot one of them with my crossbow then, in the apartments my lady was using, and I had to give him the mercy-stroke. And…I think since, during the fighting, but I’m not sure. But that’s not…so close, mostly. You shoot, or someone comes out of the dust, and you hit or dodge and you don’t see him again. Usually I’m behind my lady d’Ath, of course, and the senior squires, well behind.”
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