Unlucky Charms (The Cold Cereal Saga) - Plot & Excerpts
Then straight through a narrow river and up an embankment that had been cleared of anything growing. Gray stones lay in ragged piles around the barest hints of castle walls.“Ho there!” called a mason to the soldiers. “You’ve strange chickens in that coop!”“Not chickens,” answered the driver. “Lambs.”The mason frowned, then seemed to understand. He dropped his head as they passed. “Lord Vortigern is in the west pavilion,” he said soberly.Beneath a large peaked tent was Vortigern, a big man with a big red beard, dressed in furs and with an unfussy gold circlet atop his head. He strode out to meet the wagon and looked delighted by its contents.“Two!” bellowed the king. “I’ faith, that’s good work, lads!”One of the soldiers bowed and immediately set about managing expectations. “My liege. The sleeping one claims now that he hath a father, but that he didst know him not.”“Fine, fine, we’ll kill him anyway. And the other?”“I am Merle Lynn!” announced Merle, standing up in the cage, trying both to look and sound imposing.
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