A Conflict of Orders (An Age of Discord Novel book 2)
“After seventy days, and thirty of them with bad weather, conditions had worsened, rain turning the mud behind the revetments into liquid. It seeped through the planking and soiled everything. The Housecarls officers had all retired underground, were now bivouacked in the railway station beneath the Pacification Campaigns monument. Some had talked of moving into the officers’ quarters of the district garrison. Colonel Tayisa had put a stop to that. The officers of Ahasz’s household troopers, mad...e of sterner stuff, remained in the dank and uncomfortable command posts.
The troopers themselves had no choice.
The Duke of Ahasz picked his way along the trench, stepping over the stretched legs of soldiers. He moved in a daze, neither awake nor asleep. At some level, he took in his surroundings, reacted appropriately to them. Yet his mind was a blank; he thought of nothing. A bolt from a cannon within the Palace shot overhead, landing somewhere far to the rear.MoreLess
The troopers themselves had no choice.
The Duke of Ahasz picked his way along the trench, stepping over the stretched legs of soldiers. He moved in a daze, neither awake nor asleep. At some level, he took in his surroundings, reacted appropriately to them. Yet his mind was a blank; he thought of nothing. A bolt from a cannon within the Palace shot overhead, landing somewhere far to the rear.MoreLess
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