Rogue Sword

Authors: Poul Anderson

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“At sunrise of the second day following, they rounded Europa Point and stood out to the Marmora, a combined fleet whose member convoys would go off toward their separate destinations on the other side of the strait.All that day they rowed. Constantinople slowly fell behind, first the walls topped by her many domes, and a ringing of bells which followed the ships far across the water as if sad and anxious to be remembered; then a smudge on the sky; at last, nothing. To port the waves glittered an...d chuckled, a gay noise under the creak and chunk of the oars. To starboard rose the Thracian hills, green in the young year. Towns and villages were passed, elegant estates, castles, farms and plantations; this land seemed richly at peace.But the only sail was a strange red one in the distance, which had the look of a Turkish pirate. Every villa stood empty. Armed men paced all castle battlements. Late in the afternoon, Lucas spied smoke rising thick from a ridge. Something had been fired--by Catalan raiders?“This wind is good,”MoreLess Read More Read Less