A Sliver of Redemption
“Deathmask said as he and Veliana watched the wagon roll toward the enormous gates of Mordeina. He glanced back, saw her scarred neck, and then chuckled. “I guess that won’t be much of a problem for you.”She jabbed him in the side with her fingers.“Fuck. You.”He grinned. Her voice was steadily coming back, but still she spoke in broken sentences. Every word was pain to her.“Watch your mouth, little lady. And keep it down.”They peered over the small hill, through the heavy grass atop it. The wago...n lumbered slowly, as if the oxen pulling it were tired from a long journey. They saw two riders at the front, only one of them visibly armed with a blade. The wagon itself was covered, but the time and size accurately matched their expectations.“It’s loaded with grain,” Aaron Hocking had told them at their last meeting. “Just the first of many coming in from storehouses along the wall of towers. You want to starve the city? You burn those wagons down to the very last grain.”Deathmask had volunteered him and Veliana for the task, not that there had been much choice.MoreLess
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