Shadow Hand (Tales of Goldstone Wood book #6)
“It took him a moment to realize what was happening. After sitting for so many hours, his body felt like a bundle of knotted cord. He’d not intended to drift off, and he shook himself now, desperate to regain consciousness. His brain was full of red wolf and barren landscape, and he sat in a haze, trying to clear these images from his mind.
With a start like a kick in the stomach, he saw what the baron was doing and was on his feet and surging across the room before his legs were quite ready... to move. Thus he fell headlong into the baron but succeeded in knocking the little knife from his hands and sending it clattering across the floor.
“Dragons eat you,” said the baron in a voice that would freeze bonfires. He said nothing more but sat watching with a calculating gaze as Lionheart retied his bonds, now with a much shorter length from the iron ring.
Exhausted and bleary, Lionheart backed away from the baron, studying him.MoreLess
With a start like a kick in the stomach, he saw what the baron was doing and was on his feet and surging across the room before his legs were quite ready... to move. Thus he fell headlong into the baron but succeeded in knocking the little knife from his hands and sending it clattering across the floor.
“Dragons eat you,” said the baron in a voice that would freeze bonfires. He said nothing more but sat watching with a calculating gaze as Lionheart retied his bonds, now with a much shorter length from the iron ring.
Exhausted and bleary, Lionheart backed away from the baron, studying him.MoreLess
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