Now And for Never
“And very sharp. He knew that without even opening his eyes, because he could feel the sting of the shallow wound it had already made in his flesh, accompanied with a warm trickle of blood down the side of his neck.
“I thank you for this gift of blood,” a voice, low and husky and female, whispered in his ear as he felt the press of cloth against the cut. “It will be put to good use. I promise you.”
He cracked open his eyes and tried—unsuccessfully—not to flinch. Kneeling over him where he lay on... the deck of the ship, still wrapped in his legionnaire’s cloak and under an ink-dark sky, was Mallora. High Druidess of Mona, leader of the scathach. Sorceress, warrior, enemy of Rome.
Behind her he could see his fellow legionnaires: pale-faced in the moonlight, bereft of their weapons, and surrounded by a tight circle of fierce, extravagantly well-armed women. These proud soldiers—the ones Suetonius Paulinus had assigned to guard the merchant galley and its cargo of stolen gold—now knelt on the rolling deck of the ship, grim and defeated.MoreLess
“I thank you for this gift of blood,” a voice, low and husky and female, whispered in his ear as he felt the press of cloth against the cut. “It will be put to good use. I promise you.”
He cracked open his eyes and tried—unsuccessfully—not to flinch. Kneeling over him where he lay on... the deck of the ship, still wrapped in his legionnaire’s cloak and under an ink-dark sky, was Mallora. High Druidess of Mona, leader of the scathach. Sorceress, warrior, enemy of Rome.
Behind her he could see his fellow legionnaires: pale-faced in the moonlight, bereft of their weapons, and surrounded by a tight circle of fierce, extravagantly well-armed women. These proud soldiers—the ones Suetonius Paulinus had assigned to guard the merchant galley and its cargo of stolen gold—now knelt on the rolling deck of the ship, grim and defeated.MoreLess
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